LEARN LYRICS

I was on a disappearing streak

Money, fame, all sorted

I pretended I didn't, but I actually care

I thought I was so cool

I wanted unanimous approval

I wanted to prove my manliness

I doubted my own worth

In online insanity

I watch so I'm not too sensitive

Men don't cry, men this, men that

I learned to be indestructible

I'm not real

Talking with my friends

I got it's not just me

Silencing fragility is punishment

I'm real

Take care, my brother

Of your emotions

Mind what's real

Take care, my brother

Of your emotions

Mind what's real

Fragile masculinity, childish stuff

I was profane and sex is divine

I murdered my own intimacy

What a s***

As a kid, I was called f*g

As if it were an insult

How weird that is

I learned it was wrong to be sensitive

Such innocence

I feared my feminine side

I became a repressed man

Half soulless, half asleep

A phallic, self-destructive act

At the top yet feeling depressed

I found myself cheating for betraying myself

I was a coward, I was abusive

I thought I was strong, but I just ran

And I fell into porn

This s*** just hooks you

It sucks your soul, it empties you

And when you notice, the day is gone

And you think you ought

To have another body, another d***

Anxiety comes and stays

F***, this ain't life!

Take care, my brother

Of your emotions

Mind what's real

Take care, my brother

Of your emotions

Mind what's real

My dad was my model of a strong man

Hard-working, generous, determined

But he always found it hard to talk

My dad's dad couldn't express himself either

We need to cry for these men

And forgive

This stored pain

Even now, as I write

I'm haunted if what I say is what I should

An echo of fear

What will they say?

What will they think?

Rejection teaches early

Be a good boy or they'll cancel you

What complex is this? Mom, is it you?!

I fooled myself with that image, tried to hide

I can only be this Tiago

Full of virtue, full of wreckage

How soothing to grow, to accept

Oh, oh

This macho man, wounded

This violent man, violated man

Man without love, poorly loved man

We need to take responsibility, my friends

We build an extreme, oppressive world

Tell me, aren't we all crazy

For a hug

What exhaustion

Watch out for excess pride

Watch out for the superiority complex, but

Watch out for excuses for everything

Watch out for living in eternal childishness

Watch out for radical standards

Watch out for normal absurdities

Watch out for looking only to the sky

And closing your eye to the hell we're capable of

Take care, my brother

Of your emotions

Mind what's real

Take care, my brother

Of your emotions

Mind what's real

My soul is deep and it chokes in the shallow

My soul is deep and it drowns in the shallow

My soul is deep and it drowns in the shallow

I get dizzy

I get sad

I get little

I get nasty

I follow to the letter

What it is to be a man

That doesn't exist

Life insists

All the time

That I rethink

What is it to be a man?

What is it to be a man?

What is it to be a man?

What is it to be a man?

What is it to be a man?

There are so, so many

And many, many, many

Possible men

Real man, not ideal

Being a man through wanting to learn yourself every day

Master yourself

Despite any phobia: respect

You need guts

You need balls to love right

Am I gonna say no?

Sitting around waiting for salvation?

Connection, empathy, truth

Divine purpose: responsibility

Lay your head on the pillow and feel peace

For having lived an honest day

Being a man demands way more than courage

Way more than masculinity

Being a man demands choice, my brother

So what now?