Why are we chosen to feel this pain?
Why are we neglected in this way?
Why they hate us till this way?
Don't leave us a pain, don't let us go tonight.
Phone on do not call, midnight on the dash,
Fingerprints on leather, windshield full of past,
She slammed the door like thunder, silence cracked the glass,
My breath fogs the cluster, all the words never passed,
Left with a cold coffee and a hoodie on the floor,
Echoes in the hallway saying you're still asking for more,
Orders in her tone like I'm a chore to ignore,
I keep my jaw clenched tight but my ribcage keeps score,
They teach us to be quiet, teach us to be still,
Say be the bigger person when the truth won't heal,
We hold our hurt inside like a secret we conceal,
But this weight in my chest is painfully real.
Why are we chosen to feel this pain?
Why are we neglected in this way?
Why they hate us till this way?
Don't leave us a pain, don't let us go tonight.
Words cut like razors, left scars on the doorframe,
She rewrote the rules, put my name behind blame,
I tiptoe on eggshells, calendar dates feel the same,
Crowded room but I'm lonely, lights flicker with shame,
They laugh when I confess, men don't break like that,
But I count the nights that I cried while the records played,
I learn to hide my tremble, learn to mute the pain relay,
They treat me like a shadow, not a man in a fray,
We aren't made of stone, we sweat and bruise and bleed,
We got voices, got nights when we're reduced to need,
Tell us to be higher while you push us underneath,
Holding back the flood so the world won't see the bleed.
Why are we chosen to feel this pain?
Why are we neglected in this way?
Why they turn their eyes away?
Don't leave us a pain, don't let us go tonight.
Why are we chosen to feel this pain?
Why are we neglected in this way?
Don't let us go tonight.
Four bar empty room, then the 808 reenters,
Solo key on the piano, heartbeats count the splinters,
I pray to no religion, I pray to every mirror,
Looking for a sign that someone finally hears here,
She coached my shame like curriculum, lesson plans are blamed,
Turned affection into habit, love into a claim,
Public smiles, private trials, same scars, new names,
They picture men as armor, never feel the flame,
I write confessions on receipts, crumpled lines in my coat,
Keep the receipts in the glove box, keep the memories afloat,
When they ask why I don't leave, I say I tried to, but hope,
But hope is a thin string when the night takes the rope.
Why are we chosen to feel this pain?
Why are we neglected in this way?
Why they turn their eyes away?
Don't leave us in pain,
Don't let us go tonight.
So here's my voice, clip cracked, real and raw,
I spit the truth into static, break every law,
They tell us men don't feel like it's a myth they saw,
But we're human, we fracture, we deserve more.
Don't leave us in pain,
Don't let us go tonight.
Why are we chosen?
Why are we chosen?
I kept my tears in pockets where your promises used to be,
If you hear me now, I bleed, I break and I still breathe.
