Broken Steel (Soul Clap Remix)

Why do you think I'm always strong
And always so turned out?
Expectations of me lay so skin-deep
As if I can take anything
But who's here to protect me?

Looking like the sun's going down
Think about the day
I feel the pressure come around

Better shut my mouth
If I send my feelings
Then they'll say that I'm too loud

Blend into the crowd
Once they see my color
Then they'll think that I'm too proud
They'll think I'm super tough
And made of silver stuff
All while I'm falling apart

In the night time I lose it for real
Watching as my cup overfills
Losing all my sense of how I feel
Guess I guess I'm broken still

Maybe I'm just that soft
'Cause you're playing too rough
I am delicate with strengths that I created
For a world that's always taking
Pieces of who I am
Without anything worth trading

Looking like the sun's going down
Think about the day
I feel the pressure come around

Better shut my mouth
If I send my feelings
Then they'll say that I'm too loud

Blend into the crowd
Once they see my color
Then they'll think that I'm too proud
They'll think I'm super tough
And made of silver stuff
All while I'm falling apart

In the night time I lose it for real
Watching as my cup overfills
Losing all my sense of how I feel
Guess I guess I'm broken still

Broken still
Broken still

Yeah, I bear the weight of the world on my hips
I must be strong, can't slip
I had the culture off the tip
Created a wave, can't catch my drift
Hide my strength
Talk my shit, they bite my lips
Cry my pain and march to it

(Y'all niggas make it hate y'all)
You wanna defund, I wanna defend
Not the same, can't pretend
Mind of a creature, skin of a heathen

Hide your organ in rooms where I'm not greeted

Try me's treason, yeah, yeah
Smile's deceiving, yeah, yeah
Build this table where I'm seated
If they can manifest destiny, why can't you?
Need a minute to catch your breath? I need two

Can no longer do the work that they won't do

My race is not my cape, ho
Give me space, I cry too