Chorus:

Don’t hold me, down, down, down

Hold me down, down, down

Don’t hold me down, down, down

Hold me down, down, down

Verse 1:

This sickness is my prison guard, it just make living hard

Put you in an isolation cell and stare when in the bars

It said to me this life is something really like a Poker game

And if it is I swear to Christ, it has rigged the cards

Cause I’m already ripped apart, laying down a ditch in dark-ness

A mess I’ll just confess I need something to fix my parts

I’m thinking maybe marijuana, a giant a spliff and spark

Thrusted in my chest, and hope that it would lift my heart

But I’m no longer touching drugs, I’m no longer smoking weed

When happy is all wanted and hope to be

And Lord knows, that I may have lost my faith

Still I go to church and look at the roof, to a God I pray

Illnesses in my skull I don’t know if you see them

I’m clueless to their names so I just call them “My demons”

They have the tightest grip on me for certain they’re Hell sent

I need your help for when I tell them, this

Chorus:

Don’t hold me, down, down, down

Hold me down, down, down

Don’t hold me down, down, down

Hold me down, down, down

Hold me

Verse 2:

Man I thought I had it sorted out, now what’s this all about?

My brain was on a high for a while but it came falling down

I thought i sold my soul to the devil but god kept calling out

Telling me I’m sick and I need to snap out of it

Yo I might act like I’m the shit sometimes, but lately yo it seems

The older I get, the lonelier this world becomes to be

When I see victims of victims, inside the strangers on the street

But I witness my sickness weaken me from my brain to my feet

See I could turn back to drugs but I’d just be claiming defeat

Living life up in a haze dazed out waiting for peace

When I see so clear some days, in what I’m aiming to be

But then I try to spread my wings it puts a cage over me

So when my palms are sweating up my rib cage gets a beating

And feels like a fucking pillows on my face when I’m breathing

But I’m walking around this town I got a straight that I’m keeping

Nobody hears me pleading but I’m screaming

Chorus:

Don’t hold me, down, down, down

Hold me down, down, down

Don’t hold me down, down, down

Hold me down, down, down

Hold me

Bridge:

And I thought you’d help me fly

But you made it clear you don’t want me to rise

So I’ll try to improvise

For the heights you dreamed I’ll take it from your skies

Chorus:

Don’t hold me, down, down, down

Hold me down, down, down

Don’t hold me down, down, down

Hold me down, down, down

Hold me