Lately, I’ve been hard to reach I’ve been too long on my own Everyone has their private world Where they can be alone Are you calling me Are you trying to get through Are you reaching out for me I’m reaching out for you
I’m just so fuckin’ depressed I just can’t seem to get out this slump If I could just get over this hump But I need something to pull me out this dump I took my bruises, took my lumps Fell down and I got right back up But I need that spark to get psyched back up In order for me to pick the mic back up I don’t know how or why or when I ended up in this position I’m in I’m startin’ to feel distant again So I decided just to pick this pen up and try to make an attempt to vent But I just can’t admit or come to grips That I may be done with rap, I need a new outlet And I know some shit, so hard to swallow But I just can’t sit back and wallow in my own sorrow But I know one fact, I’ll be one tough act to follow One tough act to follow I’ll be one tough act to follow Here today, gone tomorrow But you’d have to walk a thousand miles
[Refrain] In my shoes, just to see, what it’s like to be me I’ll be you, let’s trade shoes Just to see what it’d be like to feel your pain You feel mine, go inside each others’ minds Just to see what we’d find, look at shit through each others eyes But don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful They can all get fucked, just stay true to you But don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful They can all get fucked, just stay true to you
I think I’m startin’ to lose my sense of humor Every thing’s so tense and gloom I almost feel like I got to check the temperature of the room Just as soon as I walk in, it’s like all eyes on me So I try to avoid any eye contact ‘Cause if I do that, then it opens the door for conversation, like I want that I’m not looking for extra attention I want to be just like you Blend in with the rest of the room Maybe just point me to the closest restroom I don’t need no fuckin’ man servant, tryin’ a follow me around and wipe my ass And laugh at every single joke I crack and half of them ain’t even funny like “Ahh, Marshall you’re so funny, man, you should be a comedian, god damn” Unfortunately I am, I just hide behind the tears of a clown So why don’t you all sit down, listen to the tale I’m about to tell Hell, we ain’t gotta trade our shoes, and you ain’t gotta walk no thousand miles
[Refrain] In my shoes, just to see, what it’s like to be me I’ll be you, let’s trade shoes Just to see what it’d be like to feel your pain You feel mine, go inside each others’ minds Just to see what we’d find, look at shit through each others eyes But don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful They can all get fucked, just stay true to you But don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful They can all get fucked, just stay true to you
Nobody asked for life to deal us what these bullshit hands were dealt We gotta take these cards ourselves, and flip them, don’t expect no help Now I could of either, just sat on my ass and pissed and moaned Or take this situation in which I’m placed, and get up and get my own I was never the type of kid to wait by the door and pack his bags Or sat on the porch and hoped and pray for a dad to show up who never did I just wanted to fit in, in every single place, every school I went I dreamed of being that cool kid, even if it meant actin’ stupid And Aunt Edna was told me, keep makin’ that face, it’ll get stuck like that Meanwhile, I’m just standin’ there holdin’ my tongue tryin’ a talk like “thissss” ‘Til I stuck my tongue on that frozen stop sign pole at 8 years old I learned my lesson then, ’cause I wasn’t tryin’ to impress my friends no more But I already told you my whole life story, not just based on my description ‘Cause where you see it, from where you’re sittin’, it’s probably 110 percent di