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CIT Band - The Struggle
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Original Words by Jermanni Cooper
The struggle
The struggle is real they say.
The stuggle is real to you when your girlfriend found out you were hooking up with another girl at the party.
No, NO
The stuggle is real when a guy like me has to bind up his chest because that's the only way...... the only way for happiness.
If I hear one more time that the stuggle is real, I'm going to go crazy
I am going to go berzerk , like a wild animal.
You're not the one that's freaking suffering .
Ribcages are like broken glass and your barely able to breath in your own body.
Worrying everyday, everyday thinking the same thing.
"Do I pass?"
Am I man enough yet?
Are you the one for me?
Do I look manly yet?
But you say the stuggle is real when you're failing a class because you're NEVER in class.
How CAN THAT BE?
The stuggle is real when I get called a boy, but then people say girl or whatever you are.
No it's really real when your mother is hurting from the feeling of losing a daughter that she was so happy to have.
Not being able to look me in the eyes and say "Son I love you, just the way you are." You feel like you've took an innocent life for your own happiness. You can't even look at yourself in the mirror because you are now a murderer in your own skin.
The struggle is real when you don't have money for weed.
NOW that's crazy....
The freaking stuggle.... IS not REAL!
It is real when I've been in and out of love.
Being used.. by mostly girls. Telling me that lie.
"I love you. You're all I need and want. You're the light that holds me close and dear. The guy that I want to be with." The guy that helped you from day one. Didn't let anyone come between us.
But, but now I get those words, 3 words you never want to hear from a
Once lover.
I hate you, go away . You were never man enough, so tell me
Is the stuggle still real?
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Original Words by Jace Hall-Stanger
This body is a prison,
with iron walls, not bars
It’s the place that I’ve lived in,
trapped, for uncounted tallies scratched
I’m stuck here with my solitude,
a cold wind that blows through
in
this body that I call a prison
This body that is my muse
This body is a prison,
I call it such each day
This body that holds me and hates me,
My second mind tells me it’s the other way
This body is a prison,
that’s what I’ve come to see
There’s a dark hole I’m chained to
hidden deep inside of me
I don’t know how I got here,
but light won’t reach me
This is my body, it’s a prison
that I can’t even see
This body is a prison
Within it I hide
from the vices that control me
and beat at my mind
It’s not something I’d wish for
if I had the chance to do it again
This body is a battlefield
Who knows who is going to win?
This prison belongs to me,
for in it only I reside
It dawned on me just yesterday
That it’s home for the rest of my life
If I’m stuck here forever it might cross my mind
to look for a way out
These labyrinthine tunnels below me
Would cross me lost without a doubt
I’ve never explored them,
maybe they’re waiting for me to find
This body is a prison
I keep telling myself, but
maybe
It’s just my mind
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