[00:14.50][Verse 1]
[00:14.78]Yeah, once upon a time not long ago,
[00:17.21]My grandmother told me one day I’d change
[00:19.07]I felt like she was coming down on me
[00:21.03]So I told her no, I’d be the same
[00:22.97]Not knowing she was only trying to help
[00:24.89]Motivate me to excel and climb
[00:26.74]I was thinking she was the one trapped
[00:28.72]While I was stuck in the cage of my mind
[00:30.68]Man if I would’ve known what I know now
[00:32.62]I would have brought my head down out of that cloud
[00:34.70]Told her thank you and that I loved her
[00:36.40]But I was too cool and too damn proud
[00:38.24]What a fool I was in fact
[00:40.10]I’ve changed so much, now looking back
[00:42.03]I wish somebody I thought was cool
[00:43.82]Was cool as she was when she told me that
[00:45.78][Hook]
[00:45.93]I see you, the real you
[00:49.19]Trying to cover up what’s inside of you
[00:52.56]But everything you do, is make believe
[00:56.78]Yeah you’re hot, but you’re too cool
[00:59.59]I see you!
[01:07.17]I see you!
[01:14.97]I see you!
[01:18.41][Verse 2]
[01:18.56]Baby girl don’t know much about
[01:20.89]What it would take to become a star
[01:22.27]Hollywood is so far fetched
[01:24.13]Too long of a drive in an old car
[01:26.04]Work every day but you barely eat
[01:27.87]Going over lines from a script you read
[01:29.87]Your boyfriend said it’s a silly dream
[01:31.53]But how can you dream when you never sleep
[01:33.79]You’re looking in the mirror and you’re picturing a light show
[01:38.37]A glimpse in the lens of a camera
[01:40.19]Behind the scenes of life as a tightrope
[01:42.23]Yea you walk a thin line
[01:43.79]But a thin line is all you need
[01:45.78]A thin line in an Indy movie
[01:47.66]Just a break for somebody to see the
[01:49.55]Talent inside, the ballad of a diary you write
[01:52.61]The by and by is just another day for a normal girl
[01:55.37]But for you it’s another day that you tried
[01:57.44]Aside from the fact that you ride in the back of a bus
[01:59.73]Sometimes cause your car won’t work
[02:01.57]Well maybe you should take that bus to L.A.
[02:03.25]And put your dreams first because…
[02:05.20][Hook]
[02:05.25]I see you, the real you
[02:08.87]Trying to cover up what’s inside of you
[02:12.36]But everything you do, is make believe
[02:16.41]Yeah you’re hot, but you’re too cool
[02:19.41]I see you!
[02:27.01]I see you!
[02:34.47]I see you!
[02:36.20][Verse 3]
[02:36.46]Black and white, everything is black and white
[02:38.45]Broke down, simple and plain
[02:39.84]Most of us lost with a curious brain
[02:41.84]Curiosity is looked at as strange
[02:43.68]Stuck in a lane, but you can’t complain
[02:45.42]While you look at another passing train
[02:47.40]Wondering how, where’s it going?
[02:49.38]Wishing you were inside, packed and rolling
[02:51.38]To another place, but your time is chosen
[02:53.08]To live low key, ‘cause your dream is stolen
[02:55.13]They don’t understand, they believe in loathing
[02:57.30]Lounging, loafing, waiting, hoping
[02:59.07]Homie if the grass is greener
[03:01.13]Look, the gate is open
[03:02.94]You’re waiting for God to release the ocean
[03:04.88]Sitting on the beach two feet from floating
[03:06.73]But I see you..
[03:08.67][Hook]
[03:08.82]I see you, the real you
[03:12.01]Trying to cover up what’s inside of you
[03:15.65]But everything you do, is make believe
[03:19.51]Yeah you’re hot, but you’re too cool
[03:22.39]I see you!
[03:29.81]I see you!
[03:36.76]I see you!
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