[Chorus: Nanette]

Why'd you build me up

Just to watch me fall, fall down

Just as things were looking up

Here you come to knock me down

[Verse]

Watch me fall down

Feeling lost now

Used to being alone but something's off now

Logic's tossed out

Answers crossed out

I wear this mask in public ‘til I exhaust smiles

Tears never calm down and neither does the screaming

Or the pain you feel inside when you're the only one who grieving

And you try to wait it out but time hasn't brought healing

You can never know love, if you never know the meaning of

Sacrifice, your happiness comes at the expense of mine

Dying to quench a thirst that money could never satisfy

Trying to fill a void while everybody is acting like

I should be sitting well because my debut tape excelled

But how am I supposed to feel when all relationships have sailed

Along with any reason to make new ones cuz people fail

All my expectations of what love's supposed to be like

From one bitch to the next, there's no way that this could be right

Mom talked to me, but I said that I would be well

If I never listened to the advice that she'd tell

God spoke, but I couldn't make out the details

Too busy fighting niggas and making out with females

Trials of an adolescent carried over as I got older I started to see, that I'm all I got

I ain't time for your lessons and huggin’ and holdin’ if you think your words affecting me, then I'm sorry they not

Because I refuse, to sit around and just wait for all the promises you made to me to finally come true

Me and my brother shared a room and I would cry myself to sleep ‘cause yo’ plans always fall through

And you never came through!

When I put that knife to my wrist, dog, I had to blame you!

And I prayed to God about it but that hasn't changed you!

And that shit changed me, but you’re still the same you!

Now what, you just expecting me to fucking chase you!?

Why? All because you ready for a new life

I can think of a few times I chewed pride and reached out tryna do right

But you still the same nigga

That threatened my sister

Suspecting you of shit but

That's when you play victim

Ma chose to stay with ya

But I had to get out

Can’t wait for apologies

To see how it turn out

A reputation of idols

Seemingly lost now

Repeating the same cycle

Letting me fall down

[Chorus: Nanette]

Why'd you build me up

Just to watch me fall, fall down

Just as things were looking up

Here you come to knock me down