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?