[Verse 1]

Staring in the mirror again, wondering

What it is (what it is) that I'm gone do

Seems like every time I get myself straight

I'm back to the drawing pad writin' 'bout you

The lights are burning out in this shady ass room

So damn hot, but it sets my mood

It's like every summertime brings another challenge

So I step myself back up into the booth

There's so many things that I know I can't prove

Wrong before I ever had a chance with you

Now I'm on the outside looking right in

At the person looking right back at him

Those deep blue eyes show me so much strength

It's like I can see every flaw and sin

Shatter mirrors every time I rip that page

Know how to get underneath my skin, so I win

[Bridge]

One pen, one mic, we'll see how far that gets me

If this is what it's gone take to end up truly different

It seems like all of my life, I've had this shadow with me

I couldn't shake it to sway, so I could be independent

[Chorus]

It's so deep (under my skin), I feel it (under my skin)

You get so (under my skin), Can't take this (under my skin)

It's so deep (under my skin), I feel it (under my skin)

You get so (under my skin), Can't take this (under my skin)

[Verse 2]

Looking deep, my eyes are so tense

Rooms feeling cold, alone, and unkempt

Owe it to myself to use a damn pen

Get the thoughts down and write a few friends

Count down the ways that I could change things

Let go the thoughts that make me wear thin

Back to the game, I sit, and just rot

Jealous of the locs who move to make drops

Anything Def has got to be tops

Plan to the i's dots, the t-crossed

Me, mayne, I chose to take off

Pressure too much to drop my new stuff

Gotta be dope, these words are all bluff

Drop all the tracks that make me sound too tough, now

[Bridge]

One pen, one mic, we'll see how far that gets me

If this is what it's gone take to end up truly different

It seems like all of my life, I've had this shadow with me

I couldn't shake it to sway, so I could be independent

[Chorus]

It's so deep (under my skin), I feel it (under my skin)

You get so (under my skin), Can't take this (under my skin)

It's so deep (under my skin), I feel it (under my skin)

You get so (under my skin), Can't take this (under my skin)