Reprieve Lyrics - Hella Personal Film Festival - Open Mike Eagle

I was raised in a bubble 

Face to the bubble 

Face to the window, safe from the trouble 

Crack-rock apocalypse, chased through the rubble 

My auntie's a zombie, same as my uncle 

Projects, we stay for a couple 

Stayed in my inner space like Hubble 

I came back to Earth for some days, I struggle 

These Western languages arranged like puzzles 

I'm living off the late night hustle 

Living off pain 

Living off saying "I love you" 

And there's no daylight in the jungle 

Cause the police will beat the daylights from you 

My insides rumble 

I seek protection from the winds, I'm bundled 

My ego's an inch high, humble 

Trying to resist, I got ten white knuckles 

So I'm going back within in my bubble 

I built up my accomplishments 

When I was finished my whole shell dissolved 

I fluctuate in confidence 

It cost me so much to pretend I'm strong 

I want you but I'm gone 

I don't want to but I'm gone 

I don't want to but I'm gone 

I didn't want to but I'm gone 

American anxiety, dang 

I be trying to hang 

Stood out, [?] me and I quietly sang 

If you can't be the president, but won't die in a gang 

It's your stereotype but it's alive in my brain 

So the effect is really kind of the same 

Chains like I'm a slave 

It's psychological so I can behave 

In future days I be wondering why I was afraid 

Why I was anxious while I could erase 

The hard bangs with the minds of the way 

That makes waves when I push them away 

It makes phrases that I wouldn't say 

I can't hang but I'm trying to say 

I got to run up in this cave for a couple of days 

So I can not feel strange for a couple of days 

I'm buckled up on a plane 

I'm stuck wondering what it's gonna say 

It's clinical 

I'm fitted with this cynical gaze 

I will emerge in a different way 

I built up my accomplishments 

When I was finished my whole shell dissolved 

I fluctuate in confidence 

It cost me so much to pretend I'm strong 

I've crawled back in my shell again 

I spent six months with my armor off 

It only let some noises in 

All the pictures and the lights is off 

I don't want to but I'm gone 

I don't want to but I'm gone 

I don't want to but I'm gone 

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