[Intro]
You think you a lie
I don't think it's second, wait
I mean, who am I?
Leading cause of death, yeah
Gotta check up on a motherfucker in real life
You know what I mean?
Since I was young it was always like
They was askin', "but who?"
What they say when they text me though?
They like

[Chorus]
Reading through a text that say, "We need you alive" (We need you alive)
Feed into they head, okay, you think you a lie (You think you a lie)
I don't think it's second, wait (Wait)
I mean, who am I? (I mean, who am I?)
Leading cause of death today (What?)
Teen suicide (Teen suicide)
Reading through a text that say, "We need you alive" (We need you alive)
Feed into they head, okay, they think you're a lie (They think you're a lie)
I don't think it's second, wait (Wait)
I mean, who am I? (I mean, who am I?)
Leading cause of death today (What?)
Teen suicide (Teen suicide)
[Verse 1]
Yeah
Wasn't that they lacked the intellect
But at school had a lot of failed subjects (Uh-huh)
When you think about the subjects bein' who
You'd think adults would tell someone (Right)
Prefrontal cortex ain't morphed yet
You would think they felt nothin' (Nah)
Only self-esteem that they have from a sweat sittin' up in Hell's oven (Ay)
Forced to grow up, put 'em in a hold up
If you're broke just sell somethin'
Some chose they soul just to get a payroll
'Cause bills in the mail comin'
But not these ones, workin' 'til the sun come up
Now your nails thumbin' through pesos
Duckin' the case load, lil' one ain't nobody bail budget (Woo)
Like it's time to go up there with self care
They wondered why when nobody would listen to the problems and compare youngin's (Uh-huh)
Land mass, like the bottom of the sea
When you caught up in the streets
Shells dumpin', bodies fell from it (Bop)
To get rid of the pain, they'll numb it
The same way older people did it in front of 'em, hell, fuck it (Uh-huh)
And even stars kickin' the pail bucket
Not Mario Brothers but even from the sky, they'll plummet
Young wolf 'bout to OD, die and go to hell for the hell of it (Damn)
Would it help to put him in a pack like the blunts you smoke and got the smell of him? (Uh-huh)
Everybody wanna peel now, like fame 'til they pump your frail stomach
And this verse right here's about a little boy I knew name Tarrel Gulledge
With a text that said
[Chorus]
"We need you alive" (We need you alive)
Feed into they head, okay, you think you a lie (You think you a lie)
I don't think it's second, wait (Wait)
I mean, who am I? (I mean, who am I?)
Leading cause of death today (What?)
Teen suicide (Teen suicide)
Reading through a text that say, "We need you alive" (We need you alive)
Feed into they head, okay, they think you're a lie (They think you're a lie)
I don't think it's second, wait (Wait)
I mean, who am I? (I mean, who am I?)
Leading cause of death today (What?)
Teen suicide (Teen suicide)

[Verse 2]
Media usin' frequencies to kill 'em with they platforms
How that work is every day they drop another app for 'em
It's a cold world, it's dark in hell, it's hot, not that warm
They ain't gotta be of draft age to be at war
Fentanyl crash course (Yeah)
Stealin' cars on live now
Put they brains on the dashboard (Pshew)
Give 'em what they asked for (Wah)
Throw away a full ride scholarship
Creepin' through your back door
Got fired and wasn't even off the porch (Nah)
Finna get they ass torched
Stubborn for the love, are they that poor? (Nah)
Is it greed when they ask can they have more? (Nah)
Can you leave in the past what you had or
Do you finna see who you glance in the glass door (Uh-huh)
Go proceed to ball and call back-court
Regulate the game and oversee it like passports
Tell 'em not to do it emotional, like what you mad for?
And home in to the self without a landlord (Woo)
Teen trauma and childhood make today's adults with mask war
I was in the war, just won an Emmy
What the fuck I need to act for? (Right)
I'm just talkin' to a young teen that tried to harm a n***a last tour
When they lookin' for me they know who to ask for
Sittin' on my phone readin' through a
[Chorus]
Text that say, "We need you alive" (We need you alive)
Feed into they head, okay, you think you a lie (You think you a lie)
I don't think it's second, wait (Wait)
I mean, who am I? (I mean, who am I?)
Leading cause of death today (What?)
Teen suicide (Teen suicide)
Reading through a text that say, "We need you alive" (We need you alive)
Feed into they head, okay, they think you're a lie (They think you're a lie)
I don't think it's second, wait (Wait)
I mean, who am I? (I mean, who am I?)
Leading cause of death today (What?)
Teen suicide (Teen suicide)

[Outro]
Yeah
I feel like we all still those kids
You know what I mean?
If they say it's the second leading cause of death
Then I feel like we're just those teenagers grown
And to me it's the number one
Yeah