Brain Damage - Geppetto's Strings (feat. Kryptic & Dru) Lyrics

What do you do
When you wake up in the middle of night
And can't remember your wife
Wondering why there's a toddler by your side
You start to realize that tomorrow is never promised
Especially for a starving artist
Surviving on a steady harvest of nicotine and hate
After I let the devil confiscate my soul
Just to stave off this mental deterioration
Brain damage is the nightmare that I'm facing
Man
My kids smile makes the pain go away
But I know way too soon that there is gonna come a day
When I wake up and I won't remember his face
So I'm praying for a little saving grace
Hoping that I can go and leave a trace
Or even the faintest memory
Of what these people meant to me
Born Broke but I know I'll die alone
So wherever I may roam
I'll just got and be a hollow construct
Telling my stories so when I'm gone y'all remember what's up

I'm hanging on by Geppetto's strings
Hoping god don't cut me down
Praying for another night with you
Dear lord don't let me drown
I'm hanging on by Geppetto's strings
Hoping god don't cut me down
Hoping god don't cut me down
Dear lord please hear this sound

Severe myself
Holding on to a string, i think its better I fell
Cut loose with this booze got me begging for help
So who the f*ck am I gonna be if I can't be myself
I'm not well
Living in my personal hell
My whole life been a fight
Yeah I've took a few L's
All night, I would write
Now I'm pushing the scales
But I ain't petting you snakes
That always biting my style
It's wild
Haven't seen your smile in awhile
Looking at these broken phones, they be scattered on the tiles
You telling me that you hate me, and I know I've done it now
You asking where's the old me, I want him to come back around
Who are you?
Wait I shouldn't say that
I shouldn't answer, double standard
Put this shit on playback
Like Why you even play that?
Like why this even a question
I cut a loss, cut you off you still beg for attention

I'm hanging on by Geppetto's strings
Hoping god don't cut me down
Praying for another night with you
Dear lord don't let me drown
I'm hanging on by Geppetto's strings
Hoping god don't cut me down
Hoping god don't cut me down
Dear lord please hear this sound

Ask myself what this world is really coming to
To take a mans life before he turns 22
It's something new like everyday I don't know what to do
This feeling uncomfortable
I pray that you don't cut me loose
I'm trying not to be aggressive
F*ck
But this is f*cking truth
To tell the truth something
Tells me trump don't really trust the troops
Send us out to war to fight a country who did nothing to us
Every time I hear a 21 gun salute
I say

I'm hanging on by Geppetto's strings
Hoping god don't cut me down
Praying for another night with you
Dear lord don't let me drown
I'm hanging on by Geppetto's strings
Hoping god don't cut me down
Hoping god don't cut me down
Dear lord please hear this sound