You (feat. Travis Barker)

Fighting, living, dying

For what?

For freedom

That's what which men have fought since time begun

To be free

They've been making blanked statements, scaring everyone

They've been making you feel like you never did belong

Yeah, he said, and she said, yeah, they said a lot

So many things, they just think you forgot

Who you are, and what you do, and where you're coming from

I just thought I could remind you with this simple song

Look at body language, can start to rebuff

To where we're using weapons, hatred, not love

Not you

You are in the wilderness, looking for your own purpose

And you became a butterfly, butterfly

I knew you always would

They were throwing sticks and stones

Words can never break your bones

You can spread your wings and fly, wings and fly

I knew you always would

I knew you always would

I knew there always was nothing wrong with being

You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you

All you ever see on CNN are enemys

Telling you to lose your individuality

Look, do this and do that, till you've lost your way

Till you need to fight? Means of escape

They want you to stare into your screen and see yourself

Blow smoke into your mirror till you imagine your own world

So don't let them catch you with lies and deceit

They can't take your soul or your desire for freedom

You are in the wilderness, looking for your own purpose

And you became a butterfly, butterfly

I knew you always would

They were throwing sticks and stones

Words can never break your bones

You can spread your wings and fly, wings and fly

I knew you always would

I knew you always would

I knew there always was nothing wrong with being

You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you

Yeah, yeah

You said I'm wanna be

I'm gonna be everything they said I couldn't be

Everything that I said I would be when I picked up a pen and I started to speak

I hear the beat

My melody

And I just pour all my heart into these sheets

I cannot just be a star in the streets

Man, I knew what was different, I had that belief

Nowhere to live, nothing to eat

You were so hungry that you couldn't sleep

You couldn't breathe

I couldn't be

All this shit was happening to me

I would do drugs, I was a theft

Still on the run from the car of Police

You were the mission that was given to me, by the powers to be

You are in the wilderness, looking for your own purpose

And you became a butterfly, butterfly

I knew you always would

You are in the wilderness, looking for your own purpose

And you became a butterfly, butterfly

I knew you always would

They were throwing sticks and stones

Words can never break your bones

You can spread your wings and fly, wings and fly

I knew you always would

I knew you always would

I knew there always was nothing wrong with being

You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you