Song: Trapt
Artist: Rationale aka James Crawford
Album: Life As An M.C.
Year: 2005

I go between working hard and slackin off/
And chasing after everything I want and backing off/
(And for what, man?  At points I lack focus/
My time's either being fractioned, or I'm overwhelmed with feelin hopeless)/
And I don't know why, but I just try to keep my head straight/
Most my life right now feels like dead weight/
(And it's difficult for me to progress/
Especially when I'm feelin shitty, confused, and bordering on depressed)/
Sometimes I come home from work and wanna start wylin/
I tired of shovelin shit for pricks and stayin silent/
(I get angry and violent, but really what can help?/
Want to point the blame at someone, but it's only at myself)/
So I try to ignore it, and I try to forget it/
Just put it off with the other shit and try not to sweat it/
(But the fact remains that I'm stuck here, and I'll rack my brain/
For answers just to feel trapped again)/
The question I'm askin: is this collection of fractions/
Really justified simply by pets and distractions?/
(I've only lived one life and can compare none/
So, here I am once again at square one, yeah)/

(Chorus)

Angered insane, just from playin this game/
Life must be on repeat cause everyday is the same/
Feelin like I'm trapped though I'm willin to adapt/
Man, I can't believe I'm still dealin with this crap/
Angered insane, just from playin this game/
Life must be on repeat cause everyday is the same/
Feelin like I'm trapped though I'm willin to adapt/
Man, I can't believe I'm still dealin with this crap/

Yo, I see alot of people smilin and laughin/
Is it real or just maskin their own cryin and gaspin?/
(I'm almost dyin to ask them, but pause and think against it (why?)/
Because, if you gain nothing from something it's senseless)/
Not tryin to be a menace, that's not what I believe/
I just wanna know if it's being strong or naiive/
(See neglection isn't the greatest coping mechanism/
But sometimes in life it's really only the best we're given)/
But that's not what I want, or give up on life and quit/
But it's so easy when my situation's a pile of shit/
I've been told as I've grown/
There's nothing wrong with working your fingers to the bone for a family and a home/
(Though, who wants to do that for forty-seven years?/
It distresses me enough at times that I shed mental tears)/
There's gotta be something better, this isn't ending here/
I should've known, the gilded path in life is never clear/
(So what now? I guess if success 'll take awhile/
I won't make a difference if so long as it makes you smile)/
You can't let others problems stop you, frozen still/
Cause if you don't take of yourself, then no one will

(Chorus)

Angered insane, just from playin this game/
Life must be on repeat cause everyday is the same/
Feelin like I'm trapped though I'm willin to adapt/
Man, I can't believe I'm still dealin with this crap/

Yo, there's times where I'm pissed off and feel so aggrivated/
That I wanna wipe my daily clean and just get back to basics/
(Wish I could pack up all the good things in my life/
In the back of my car, leave the negative behind)/
And just drive till my wheels are worn down to nothin/
But that's not really solvin anything, that's only runnin/
(So I face it, though I hate it, seperated but adjacent/
Try to place it all straight and level like a mason)/
I learned when I was younger that there's always one other/
Path to be taken aside from goin under/
(cause it's weak, and it's bitch, and it's when you throw the towel/
It's when you let it beat you like that how it's goin down)/
That's not me (nope!)/
I can't let petty, prissy bullshit even begin to stop me, I've got more heart than Rocky/
(There's been too many times where I've swallowed my pride/
So you go reinvent your dreams, but I'm followin mine)/
And that's not rockin ice and coppin dollars and dimes/
Nor pushin chrome whips and poppin collars and nines/
(That's bein me in a life of love and music actively/
And handlin buisness like a door knob factory, yeah!)

(Chorus)
Angered insane, just from playin this game/
Life must be on repeat cause everyday is the same/
Feelin like I'm trapped though I'm willin to adapt/
Man, I can't believe I'm still dealin with this crap/
Angered insane, just from playin this game/
Life must be on repeat cause everyday is the same/
Feelin like I'm trapped though I'm willin to adapt/
Man, I can't believe I'm still dealin with this crap/
Angered insane, just from playin this game/
Life must be on repeat cause everyday is the same/
Feelin like I'm trapped though I'm willin to adapt/
Man, I can't believe I'm still dealin with this crap/
Angered insane, just from playin this game/
Life must be on repeat cause everyday is the same/
Feelin like I'm trapped though I'm willin to adapt/
Man, I can't believe I'm still dealin with this crap/