Two boys stood on either side of a pane of glass
One believed he lived in a utopia, the other watched the world wilt as it passed
I was both of them
"It's funny how much time you spend looking out
Here like you're trying to see something you don't believe in yet"
Said the first, whose skin was perfect
"Yeah it's funny how much time you spend looking
In here without seeing anything at all"
Thought the second, who was honest
Thought the second, who was starving
Thought the second, whose heart was still
Thought the second, who balled a fist,
Beat through the pane, touched the other's face and said
Look
I've seen what you do with your pride, shaking inside telling it delicate lies
Gotta keep it alive naming your price deep as the sky
Then selling yourself for width of a dime
I've seen what that buys
Yeah I've seen what that buys
I've seen my reflection
Inside of the eyes of a lion
Felt like a giant with a heart made of iron
Forget that Nate David yeah call me Goliath
Now that's an equation to make a Sol Hardy
So hard he can't hardly feel his heart beats come marching like tides
Soft like the whispers of love in the night
"You're doing okay baby you're still alive"
I'm sorry whoever you are
But this battle is mine this arduous life
I call the shots yea I shoot em right
I aim at my gods yea I shoot em blind
And if I ever missed then you can call me a liar
I'll call you a liar cause it ain't just an image that catches the fire
It's the way we envision the price of a life
"If you ain't worth a shit well then neither am I"
Now that's an idea that'll eat us alive
Cause when I saw my reflection
You know I saw you and when you looked my direction
I know you lost view but I watched you become
Everything that I hate everything I could want
Yeah you knew how to take it's a game it's a game
But you know how to play and god damn if there's a price
That don't gotta be paid for the proud
Cause I saw you, yeah I saw when you fell
With your knees to the ground
Too many directions
For your neck to be bowed
A stomach for a heart ashes for a crown
And I'll ask you
When you look at me
Yeah look at me
Why won't you see?