Karaoké To Be a Man (feat. Darius Rucker) Dax

I can't hide myself

I don't expect you to understand

I just hope I can explain what it's like to be a man

It's a lonely road and they don't care 'bout what you know

It's not 'bout how you feel but what you provide inside that home

Be a man is what you make it

You can't always live up to expectations

You tried to please everybody while you struggle so you fake it

And end up out of balance compromisin' situations

As a good man

Do what he should man

Ah give everything he has and do everything he could man, you

Might find yourself feelin' all alone inside a house you built that you don't recognize as home

And that's what my daddy told me

And I'll tell my son the same

Now that I'm older I relate and I actually feel his pain

He never cried, he might've lied but he did not complain

And he said Son one day you'll have to do the same

I get emotional when I stop and think and I look around

Beyond the county lines of my small town

I think about all the men out there who feel like I do now

Who are screamin' on the inside but won't ever make a sound

I can't hide myself

I don't expect you to understand

I just hope I can explain what it's like to be a man

It's a lonely road and they don't care 'bout what you know

It's not 'bout how you feel but what you provide inside that home

Don't give up

Keep fightin'

As a man our son is our horizon

And our fathers' actions play a role and we end up like him

So they can't let us see them hurt 'cos we'll embody what they do and start a generational curse

No wonder most men are so depressed

All the things that they can't express

They go to war

Get thrown on the shelf

Then go back to war with they mental health

Then grab that bottle and ask for help

Try to pull themselves out of hell

Then fall back down and then realize that they gon' have to do it themselves

It's the circle of life

As a man you provide

They don't know

They don't know what you're worth 'till the day that you die 'till the day that you die and

And that's when they start cryin' then move on to a man

Oh to confide in

Oh oh oh oh

That's why we feel we can't hide ourselves

We can't hide ourselves

We don't expect you to understand

Oh oh understand

We just hope we can explain

We can explain what it's like to be a man

Be a man

It's a lonely road and you don't care

Oh 'bout what we know

Oh oh what we know

It's not 'bout how we feel but what we provide

How we feel, how we feel inside that home

Inside that home

That home

It's not 'bout how we feel

That home

It's not about how we feel but what we provide inside that home

Inside that home