Lyrics to Falling Down

[Intro]

I can see how broken you are. How defeated. You can't win and you know it because inside you're already dead



[Verse 1]

These days I see my life through windows of frustration

For every obstacle my life is full I lose patience

My situation inundated with no-win scenarios

As circumstances turn to shit after seemingly made of gold

My positive outlook is transformed to negative

I'm grasping at the fantasy to live a life I'll never live

Maybe what I lack's a commitment that I have yet to give

Slipping in the darkness of what seems an eternal eclipse

So I turn and I twist and search for what doesn't exist

Some piece of contentment instead all I get is this shit

From where I am to where I need to go today

Seems to be measured in distances that's many more light years away

Nothing I can do to reach with any tool I use

No matter what I choose the outcome is that I always lose

I can't even pretend that this shit isn't stressing me

The heart of it I'm losing confidence and thinking less of me



[Chorus]

I hold my head up high for the people surrounding me

And that's down with me

I take steps not to trip, but they don't see that I'm falling down

I'm falling down

I'm falling down yo

I keep a smile on my face for my friends and my family

To hide the insanity

I stay discreet cause I don't want them to peep

That I'm falling down

I'm falling down

I am falling down



[Verse 2]

My limited options have got me feeling boxed in

As best laid plans and dreams are headed where the stop ends

How do I smile when everything has died inside

Although I can't reveal the struggle to the family and so I hide

Keep them distracted with this mask of overconfidence

Conceal the way I feel which in reality's incompetent

And be the shoulder that everyone else can cry on

While life continues with its game and really starts to pile on

Health issues arise... many loved ones have died

Many times have I tried to shrug it and take it in stride

As all the bonds I've made slowly start to slip away

When those that's closest to me start to notice I don't look the same

It's kind of twisted feeling so damn pessimistic

Pretending I'm not worried when really my minds drifted

To everybody else these songs are only music

But to me their everything my only hope I gotta use it



[Chorus x 1]



[Verse 3]

This is my outlet when everything about me spins

The side I hide from friends concealed behind a smile or grin

The artistry that's buried deep inside the heart of me

Influenced by those muses of the struggle that nobody sees

My last bastion of hope... fortress of solitude

A universe of ideas expressed and often misconstrued

Without this way to vent I just don't know what I would do

I'd probably explode from all the rage in fact I know it's true

Is this another dead end another try that fails

Another disappointment story stacked upon a pile of tales?

How do I even the scales and produce a victory

When lessons from history teach those thoughts are contradictory

Sometimes I micromanage every disadvantage

In an attempt to lessen the load of all of this baggage

The pressure builds and builds until it reach the roof again

The only relief is when I release it with this pad and pen



[Chorus x 1]



[Outro]

I'm falling down and I can't get up

Sometimes it feels like I'm not man enough

I do my best but I still feel damned as fuck

At the end of the day man I can't give up

I've fallen down and I can't get up

Sometimes it feels like I'm not man enough

I do my best but I still feel damned as fuck

At the end of the day yo I can't give up