Tell Me What's Real Lyrics

With everything perfect

There’s never been a need for you to have to give

Any room for pause

When it’s not perfect

You point to all the other directions to divert from your

Failings and flaws

You want respect

You want to be loved

Even in light of your big mistake

But in the end, how can you give back

If all you know now is how to take

You’re not perfect

But none of us are, and for all of us it’s

Never been a big deal

So, don’t tell me what you think it is

That I want to hear

Tell me what’s real

Tell me what’s real

Coming from privilege

You can spin a lie, keeping it going as long as it

Makes you look good

Coming from privilege

You exaggerate everything hoping no one is

Looking under the hood

With values stilted and warped

You want everyone to buy in and agree

But how come you expect or even think

You could ever

Relate to me

Coming from privilege

There’s no way that someone like you could ever know

How I feel

So don’t blatantly lie to my face

Tell me what’s real

Yeah, tell me what’s real

You know you’re better

Better than others and it’s how you’ve coped with the

World thus far

You feel you’re better

And you over inflate yourself to look much bigger

Than you really are

And when they finally call you out

You call them liars

You call them fools

And if they persist because they’re right

You stop

Playing by the rules

You think you’re better

From that vantage point there’s no way you could

Ever know how I feel

So don’t tell me what it is that you think

I want to hear

Tell me what’s real

Yeah, tell me what’s real