My uncle used to tell me: Keep it real close
This is for the little kids who see us as a hero (a hero)
Mama made a soufflé, now I'm out the soup case
Do whatever you say, homies playing 2K
Daddy used to tell me: Never trust a perfect person
Watching all my benjamins to see who could be lurking
I'm surfing, ah-ah, I'm skirting, ah-ah
We hide behind our pretty masquerades like it's a curtain
We stay so flawed
Live in our facade
We're doing great and we don't need no one to save us
Look around because this feeling is contagious
Tell us how we are and look around on our end
Not pretending that we probably think we're perfect and we aren't
I hit the record button to tell them all that I'm fake
I'm really posting and chilling my college dorm by the lake
And no, I know I ain't safe, I say that I'm doing great
And I ain't got a single problem, there's no reason to pray
My hometown, there's no frowns, my mama: Stay straight
We A-1, we sayin': We know we're on our way
Ooo mama, this is all I really wanted, like
This is all my masking, all the people I can never write
We stay so flawed
Live in our facade
We're doing great and we don't need no one to save us
Look around because this feeling is contagious
Tell us how we are and look around on our end
Not pretending that we probably think we're perfect and we aren't
And if you look me in the eyes
Would you start to see the lies?
Filling my coat with all of the figments that measure a night
Like a ship with no lighthouse
We belong to pretending that we're okay
And we're falling onto our knees, praying to the Lord please
Bless us for our crooked smile
'Cause we've been falling every day
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What is there to pray for?
But who's really perfect?
Who's really perfect?
A hero
