FACE THE FACTS [Intro] Look me in the eyes Don’t rewrite what happened You can dress it how you like Still gotta face the facts [Verse 1] Face the facts, boy You been talking out of place Putting polish on a story That the evidence erased You can sell it to the room You can practice every phrase But the truth has perfect timing And a frightening memory I don’t move from emotion I observe and calculate You were speaking from the shadows I was standing at the gate I know every little gesture Every pause you tried to fake You were smiling for the picture While resentment filled the frame Don’t confuse being quiet With me missing what you meant I can hear what isn’t spoken I can read what wasn’t sent You were hoping I would question What I witnessed for myself But a mask becomes transparent When you wear it long enough [Pre-Chorus] You can hide it You can frame it You can change the names attached You can run around the subject Still you gotta face the facts [Chorus] Face the facts Face the facts Every footprint leaves a track Face the facts Face the facts You can’t paint the daylight black All the whispers All the acting All the fiction dressed as fact When the room becomes a witness You gon’ have to face the facts [Verse 2] Back to business as usual As usual, you pretend Calling everybody family Then competing with your friends You want credit for the structure But you never laid cement You want ownership of language You discovered at the end I was present at the making You arrived when it was done Now you’re speaking like the source Because you memorized the sum I was working through the darkness You appeared to greet the sun Then you told them you discovered Every road I had begun That’s the difference You need witnesses I know what I represent You need numbers for importance I make meaning from events I’ve been dotting every eye Since I learned to comma and end Put a period on pretending Then begin the truth again [Chorus] Face the facts Face the facts Every footprint leaves a track Face the facts Face the facts You can’t paint the daylight black All the whispers All the acting All the fiction dressed as fact When the room becomes a witness You gon’ have to face the facts [Verse 3] What’s the conflict? Watch the cons in it Confidence is counterfeit When somebody else installed it You rehearsed being important Till you thought that you became it Now the mirror needs an answer And your mouth cannot explain it Every costume has a stitching Every story has a seam Every person playing honest Eventually leaves the scene Every secret leaves a shadow Every shadow needs a light Every lie becomes exhausted Trying to outrun what is right I saw sweetness in the greeting And the switch behind the grin You were reaching out to praise me While resentment settled in I’ve been waiting ever since You’ve been hating ever since You kept circling the surface I kept diving through the depth I don’t have to raise my voice To make the whole foundation shift When the message carries weight Every syllable will hit [Bridge] Say it with your chest Put your heart inside the sound If you spoke it when I left Keep that volume when I’m ’round Don’t perform your innocence When your fingerprints remain You can wash away the evidence But the pattern stays the same I don’t need revenge The truth collects its own debt Time will introduce you To the choices you forget I can leave the room in silence Knowing nothing has been lost Truth may take the longer road But it always makes it across [Final Verse] Authentic Artistic Autistic Built different Different kind of wiring But precise with every sentence You brought noise I brought consequence You brought numbers I brought prominence You brought imitation I brought honest evidence You brought fiction dressed as fact I brought common sense I don’t fit inside the boxes You assembled for my name Every label that you gave me Turned to fuel inside the flame I don’t need your permission I don’t need you to agree You can question my direction You cannot rewrite what I’ve seen I’m not fighting for a moment I’m not begging to be heard I’m just placing every fact Exactly where it is deserved [Final Chorus] Face the facts Face the facts Every footprint leaves a track Face the facts Face the facts You can’t paint the daylight black All the whispers All the acting All the fiction dressed as fact Now the room became a witness And you have to face the facts [Outro] No argument No performance No revision Face the facts
