Bravado

[Intro]
My baby left with a designer nigga with Prada flippers
Oh God, they drowning in the shallows
Watch it from the shadows

[Verse 1]
A rare occasion when I make confessions
Facing rejection ain't my favorite
Let alone breaking it to no strangers
On no instrumental, paint the mental scene
Beauty queen move that needle in my head
My feet don't get the message
How that closed mouth gone get feed
She done left with someone else
So now the pill you swallowing
Something must be wrong wit me
Swiss cheese confidences, what women see intrinsically
And niggas they respond to it
And I feel like I never really had it, or I'm just out of it

Don't feel bad for me
Cuz someone gotta play the fool

[Verse 2]
And it get worse when you compare yo self to other niggsas
That can turn to jealousy
Not ashamed to tell you, I've been there myself
To really think, the feeling of not feeling good enough was slowly killing me
And my dislike for envy, turned me to my biggest enemy
And thats me tryna hype myself up huh, silly me
(Silly me, silly me, silly me)

[Chorus]
(You ain't got no bravado)
I'ma just (bravado), I'ma just (bravado)
Tell myself no before you get the chance (bravado)
I'ma just (bravado)
I'ma just, tell myself no before you get the chance (bravado)
I'ma just (bravado), I'ma just (bravado)
Tell myself no before you get the chance (bravado)
I'ma just (bravado)
I'ma just, tell myself no

[Verse 2]
I think my sensitivity one day, gone be the death of me
I mean it be the simple things
It may just be the way I think
Sometimes I cringe at memories
A look could make us enemies
Wit me a vibe is everything
And mine is fragile, my ego tactile
Cuz I been cracked on, the black child
The one with the fat nose
You niggas got jokes, oh you mad now
I needed a back bone, so fade to black now
Where can't nobody roast
Cuz everything you say gone be the butt of someone jokes
The reason niggas think I'm strong and silent, hardly both
The reason why I bite my tongue the most
Felt like I knew what people thought of me
Before they even talked to me
That's if they'd even talk to me
Rejection wasn't lost one me
That's why I rap like it's Jesus bday
I gave niggas a voice, they had shit they needed to say
Shit you might needed to hear
Shine when people giving you shade
And be kind but don't shy away from no fade
You see I wrote this shit in pen just so you won't erase it
I learned this shit the hard way, itseem like the only way to
Learn the difference between growing and changing
Both can save ya
The only shit that can hurt you is, true in a way

[Outro/Alternative Chorus]
(Bravado)
Niggas ain't (bravado)
Niggas ain't (bravado)
Niggas ain't, laugh no more
(Bravado)
Niggas ain't (bravado)
Niggas ain't
Niggas ain't, laugh no more
(Bravado)
Niggas ain't (bravado)
Niggas ain't (bravado)
Niggas ain't, laugh no more
(Bravado)
Niggas ain't (bravado)
Niggas ain't
Niggas ain't, laugh no more