Boys Don't Cry Lyrics

Lotta keys on my belt, none are the key to success

Key to the streets could be the key to regret

Key to my dorm room was the key to my debt

And the key to my whip could be the key to my death

How much trust do it take to believe in what's next?

And how much doubt in return until I doubt in my steps?

Creeping up the stairs of life trying not to fall too much deeper in stress

I took a nasty tumble off my last flight from Los Angeles

All I see is producers on sets with crews claiming that "we the best"

Made me believe if that was true then I'd be catching checks

I mean, I'm 23 already, is this as good as it gets?

I been working on myself, but still I crash and burn

Waking up from dreams about people who used to leave when I was asleep

Guess that's what it means to leave 'em to rest

Granny went home to be with Jesus back in 2017

Tears hot like the color red, felt them fall on my chest and seep through my vest

I didn't cry for the dead, I cried 'cause I knew change was coming

Pressure shifted from weights on my shoulders to an ache in my head

Painted numbers fade like the entryway to places I used to get educated

And memories escaping the cells in my brain like jailbreaks

What's left are pains with no bars left

Tell me where my heart's kept

I've seen the sunset a thousand times, but I still ain't no star in the west

Me and my ex used to have great days in the east

Going nowhere fast, car mileage doing digits

Now we don't even speak

Was that all for nothing?

I talk to God as much as possible

But sometimes the only response I get is him calling my bluff and I'm like, "shit"

What type of calling is this?

Should I be calling it off?

I'm just confessing my sins

Breathing heavy as hell, I'll wipe the fog from my lens

Scrape the frost off the glass, how refreshing

Spending my winters in regression

People coming out of the woodwork when they hear you depressed

But when you tell 'em direct it's too much

I respect it

Let's blow it off like chalk in the wind

Boys don't cry and men don't say shit about what's bothering them