(Intro - Spoken over sparse slide guitar + 808)
man I just don't know how to feel anymore.
what's a man have to do.
can't you see I'm making the effort.
(Verse 1)
I've done a whole lot of wrong but I got a few things right.
I lost some good people, some to soon.
Tailgate nights and neon fights beneath a busted porch light,
I lived wild and fast and caused this works some hurt, only to get it dishes right back at me.
learned every damn lesson the hardest way possible no doubt about that.
Dust on my boots, pride in my pocket, memory's a freight train rollin' through my past.
(Pre-Chorus)
For how long now have I been told no.
For how long no have I been told to go.
I still wake up and start a new day.
still continue to ask them questions and be rejected again.
when will you put it to an end and just see I'm here for you .
(Chorus - sung, hooky, simple)
Most of all I learned to offer up my heart. Even knowing it could get broke,how heartbreak feels and damn does it hurt.
Most of all I learned to offer up my heart. Even knowing it could get broke,how heartbreak feels and damn does it hurt.
(Verse 2 - Rap, punchy cadence over booming 808s + banjo stabs)
Rollin' through the nights, city smoke and country chrome,
Late calls, tailgate prayers, tryna find a place called home.
That feeling you get when she offers up hers to you. That's a feeling a man could get used to.
I trade my vices for honest words, trade my lies for something true.
Holding hands and seeing that star in her eyes. That's a feeling a man could get used to.
Concrete and cornfield, mix the two and watch me move.
(Chorus - full band, doubled vocal)
Most of all I learned to offer up my heart. Even knowing it could get broke,how heartbreak feels and damn does it hurt.
Most of all I learned to offer up my heart. Even knowing it could get broke,how heartbreak feels and damn does it hurt.
(Bridge - Rap with trap flow, tight multisyllabic lines)
Doing what I like even though you can't stand it. that's he feeling that makes it easy to offer up this old beat up heart if mine,That's the feeling I love.
Karma come around like the county line, lessons taught in neon signs.
Scars lace the verses, scars lace the rhymes — I paid for every mistake, every crime.
But when she leans in soft and says she trusts, that hush melts the rush of my dusk.
(Rap Break - call-and-response, gritty)
I still wake up and start a new day. (I keep on movin')
man I just don't know how to feel anymore. (but I'm here)
can't you see I'm making the effort. (look close)
For how long now have I been told no. (too long)
For how long no have I been told to go. (still here)
(Chorus - stripped then swell)
Most of all I learned to offer up my heart. Even knowing it could get broke,how heartbreak feels and damn does it hurt.
Most of all I learned to offer up my heart. Even knowing it could get broke,how heartbreak feels and damn does it hurt.
(Outro - gentle, resonant)
That feeling you get when she offers up hers to you. That'sa
