WHY

[00:00.00]NF - WHY
[00:13.99]Yeah what's your definition of success
[00:18.11]I don't trust the thoughts that come inside my head
[00:21.11]I don't trust this thing that beats inside my chest
[00:23.84]Who I am and who I wanna be can not connect why
[00:27.13]Don't think I deserve it You get no respect
[00:29.57]I just made a couple mil' still not impressed
[00:31.76]Let You Down goes triple platinum yeah okay okay I guess
[00:34.71]Smile for a moment then these questions startin'to fill my head not again
[00:38.68]I push away the people that I love the most why
[00:42.62]I don't want no one to know I'm vulnerable why
[00:44.92]That makes me feel weak and so uncomfortable why
[00:48.21]Stop askin' me questions I just wanna feel alive
[00:51.20]Until I die this isn't Nat's flow
[00:53.57]Just let me rhyme I'm in disguise
[00:55.71]I'm a busy person got no time for lies one of a kind
[00:59.53]They don't see it I pull out they eyes I'm on the rise
[01:02.92]I've been doin' this for most my life with no advice
[01:05.75]Take my chances' I just roll the dice do what I like
[01:08.94]As a kid I was afraid of heights put that aside
[01:11.61]Now I'm here and they look so surprised well so am I woo
[01:15.41]They don't invite me to the parties but I still arrive
[01:18.26]Kick down the door and then I go inside
[01:20.30]Give off that I do not belong here vibe
[01:22.48]Then take the keys right off the counter let's go for a ride
[01:25.84]Why do y'all look mortified
[01:27.23]I keep to myself they think I'm sorta shy organized
[01:30.24]Let You Down's the only song you've heard of Well then you're behind
[01:33.48]Story time wish that I could think like Big Sean does but I just can't decide
[01:36.90]If I should stick my knife inside of Pennywise
[01:39.51]I I don't care what anybody else thinks lies
[01:43.07]I do not need nobody to help me lies
[01:46.10]I kinda feel guilty'cause I'm wealthy why
[01:49.00]I don't understand it's got me questionin'like Why
[01:52.10]Just tell me why now back to this flow
[01:54.50]Inside I feel divided
[01:56.17]Back when I ain't had a dime but had the drive
[01:59.32]Back before I ever signed I questioned life like Who am I man Woo
[02:04.10]Nothin'to me's ever good enough
[02:05.10]I could be workin'for twenty four hours a day and think I never did enough
[02:08.24]My life is a movie but there ain't no tellin'what you're gonna see in my cinema
[02:11.46]I wanna be great but I get it in the way of myself and I think about everything that I could never be
[02:14.77]Why do I do it though Ayy yeah
[02:16.14]Why you always lookin'aggravated
[02:18.08]Not a choice you know I had to make it
[02:19.85]When they talk about the greatest they gon' probably never put us in the conversation
[02:22.63]Like somethin' then I gotta take it
[02:24.10]Write somethin' then I might erase it
[02:25.53]I love it then I really hate it
[02:27.04]What's the problem Nathan I don't know
[02:28.92]I know I like to preach to always be yourself
[02:31.37]But my emotions make me feel like I am someone else
[02:34.47]Me and pride had made a pact that we don't need no help
[02:36.85]Which feels like I'm at war inside myself but I forgot the shells
[02:40.00]I hold my issues up for all to see like show and tell
[02:43.09]A lot of people know me but not a lot know me well
[02:46.96]Hold my issues up for all to see like show and tell
[02:49.50] A lot of people know me but they don't know me well