To Be A Man

To Be A Man - Dax/Darius Rucker

Lyrics by：Daniel Nwosu Jr./Alex Nour

Composed by：Daniel Nwosu Jr./Alex Nour

Produced by：Lex Nour

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

Being a man is what you make it

You can't always live up to expectation

You try to please everybody

While you struggle so you fake it

And end up out of balance compromising situations

As a good man

Do what he should man

I give everything he has

And do everything he could man

You might find yourself feeling all alone

Inside a house you built

That you don't recognize as home

And that's what my told daddy me

And I'll tell my son same

Now that I'm older I relate

And I actually feel his pain

He never criedhe might have 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 screaming 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

What it's like to be a man

It's a lonely road

It's a lonely road

And they don't care 'bout what you know

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

'Cause 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 what you're worth

'Til the day that you die

And that's when they start cryin'

Then move on to a man to confide in

That's why we feel

We can't hide ourselves

We can't hide ourselves

We don't expect you to understand

Understand

We just hope we can explain

We can explain

What it's like to be a man

What it's like to be a man

It's a lonely road

It's a lonely road

And you don't care 'bout what we know

Care 'bout what we know

It's not 'bout how we feel

How we feel

We provide inside that home

Inside that home

That home

That home

It's not 'bout how we feel

Not 'bout how we feel

We provide inside that home

Inside that home