You tried to squeeze light out of darkness, and it's not working. I've done this all my life, I don't know anything else. If I can't be this, who am I? Who am I? Be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man Cut her off of my team, yeah I don't ice her left hand, yeah Here on screen for this dance, yeah This how you be a man, uh Be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man, be a man Cut her off of my team, yeah I don't ice her left hand, yeah Here on screen for this dance, yeah This how you be a man Why those bones in my closet? I don't know, I'm agnostic Skeleton, it got venom in it And though I did it, I can't admit it I got an image I've conjured Used her soul as my food Wipe the blood off my shoe Look at me, I'm so cool I just wanna flex Started with a kiss and it ended with a death I know that I'll miss, I done made a mess I knew what the cost was when I took the debt Look, I just wanna ball, I don't listen to the rest I just did it wrong and this isn't even like me I've been reading Paul, I've been listening to Spike Lee Feelings got involved and I didn't do the right thing Tell him be cautious Got a hole in my conscience Boys will be boys, bodies are toys I was raised with a nonsense Treat the girl like a Barbie Me and Clos in hair Know that it's so unfair She got her soul in there Be a man, be a man, be a man Be a man, be a man Be a man, be a man, be a man Cut it off with my team I don't ice her left hand And don't scream for the stand That's how you be a man Be a man, be a man, be a man Be a man, be a man, be a man Be a man, be a man, be a man Cut it off with my team I don't ice her left hand And don't scream for the stand That's how you be a man Be the man, be the man, be the man Be the man Rather be a kid my whole life Than act like the man I am Bid on the fruit like Eve Should've treated you like a queen I should've let God in the bean But it's all good when I pull up *** game got me debold She pickin' up my lingo Never been with a Latino I know this is toxic But she can sense my fineness Know it's people watchin' I need a pause cause I might be the reason Why my friends don't turn to Jesus I been holy on the surface But a heathen in the detens I know you believed in me Before the nonsense It's time to be a man