Reprieve - Open Mike Eagle, Paul White

I was raised in a bubble

Face to the bubble

Face to the window, safe from the trouble

Crack-rock apocalypse, chased through the rubble

My auntie’s a zombie, same as my uncle

Projects, we stay for a couple

Stayed in my inner space like Hubble

I came back to Earth but some days I struggle

These Western languages arranged like puzzles

I’m living off the late night hustle

Living off pain

Living off saying «I love you»

And there’s no daylight in the jungle

Cause the police will beat the daylights from you

My insides rumble

I seek protection from the winds, I’m bundled

My ego’s an inch high, humbled

Trying to resist, I got ten white knuckles

So I’m going back within in my bubble

I counted my accomplishments

When I was finished my whole shell dissolved

I fluctuate in confidence

It cost me so much to pretend I’m strong

I don’t want to but I’m gone

I don’t want to but I’m gone

I don’t want to but I’m gone

I didn’t want to but I’m gone

American anxiety dang, I be trying to hang

Start out shouting, now I’m quietly sang

If you can’t be the president, but won’t die in a gang

It’s your stereotype but it’s alive in my brain

So the effect is really kind of the same

Chains like I’m a slave

It’s psychological so I can behave

In future days I be wondering why I was afraid

Why I was anxious while I could of raged

The hard bangs with the minds of the way

That makes waves when I push them away

It makes phrases that I wouldn’t say

I can’t hang but I’m trying to say

I got to run up in this cave for a couple of days

So I can not feel strange for a couple of days

I’m buckled up on a plane

I’m stuck wondering what it’s gonna say

It’s clinical

I’m fitted with this cynical gaze

I will emerge in a different way

I counted my accomplishments

When I was finished my whole shell dissolved

I fluctuate in confidence

It cost me so much to pretend I’m strong

I’ve crawled back in my shell again

I spent six months with my armor off

It only let some noises in

All the pictures and the lights is off

I don’t want to but I’m gone

I don’t want to but I’m gone

I don’t want to but I’m gone