Hyperventilate
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Talk to me Look at me Explain to me what your problem is Don't give me no BS Tell me what the truth is You're not supposed to cry You're not supposed to emote We didn't talk to each other about our problems We didn't We didn't openly communicate We'd grab a bottle Suicide is the third leading cause of death For African American males It's when we were inebriated That's the only time we got to talk about what's bothering us Black men venting isn't taken seriously unless it's stand-up comedy Everyone laughed at Jordan and Tyrese But rallied behind Kevin and Dave Chappelle But since I'm not funny I just breathe But every time I inhale I just get a chest full of heavy No air Just heavy And I've learned to 'man up' when that heavy Starts to make my eyes sweaty Because I was taught that a man Being able to lift heavy Equals strong And strong equals tough And tough equals good enough But none of that equals fair Or right Or 'What's really been keeping you up at night?' Maybe We could vent to our significant others If it was guaranteed that it wouldn't be weaponized against us Have you noticed That the bottle never judges And that darkness Feels like a velvet soft blanket that likes to love us I vent To my shadows in solitude then silence Becomes anxiety's open mic Nocturnal Epiphanies In darkness I begin to see That my insecurities Are manifested in my melanin mating melancholy With my ashy elbow my way through The hardest things to do As a black man like breathe Like breathe Be black Like breathe Be black and free and human Is that even legal Like breathe But your black So everything you do is labeled extra or aggressive So I hyperventilate I hyper vent to my boar hair brush Because it knows what's on my mind better than I do Caressing the signature of my essence Softly as the bristles Convince my follicles that it is good hair I vent To the chicken I didn't fully eat off the bone Or Kool-Aid with the right amount of type 2 I'm the type to Type away when I feel some type of way Then delete it all and say 'ok' I vent to my memories of cartoons being turned up To drown out the volume of verbal abuse I vent to those drunken adults after being molested Then shutting up because I was told to just be happy that a girl touched it I vent Through the PTSD Of surviving being black In the suburbs with a family that is stuck fighting the ghetto From secreting through their tongue at every injustice I vent To the back of my mind As I ask my masculinity to be the little spoon So I don't have to explain to my wife why I've been drying My tears On the back of her shoulder at night I vent through poetry That assimilates thought I've convinced myself that trauma Is just my dynamically written plot And my character development must be my superpower Ironically We call each other brother But I can't count on one hand The black men I'm comfortable to vent to But we can talk about sex, checks And how 'I'm trynna get like you' We say 'What's good?' Because we already asphyxiate on the bad We've kept our mental checks to a simple head nod in passing Followed by the sound of beer bottle caps tap dancing On the floor And countered with a coerced toast to something more 'Manly' I wonder Is there some type of inhaler For the thought clouds That never leave your head Out your mouth But instead Bond to your lungs tighter than a frighten child's grip on their mother's leg It's as if every attempt For a black man to vent Is snatched away faster than what happens in the aftermath of a custody battle There's no control of a piece of you being taken quicker than a Gasp Like every attempt for us to Exhale Is just a wheezing cry for help You wanna know 'Who do black men vent to?' To be honest We didn't even know we were allowed to
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