Feeler Felt

If I'm just learnin' how to die
 What's the use of tryna' live
 With religion on my mind
 And some clothes over my skin
 Dinner on my plate and a roof over my head
 When the family down the hill doesn't even have a fridge
 Ever since I was a kid I had a problem with the fact that
 I had a mom and dad who were supportive in their actions
 They never told me who I was
 So I found out who I am
 Never told me what I had to be
 And so I had a chance
 To take a couple stabs
 Picked a couple scabs
 Ripped a couple masks off and
 Skipped a couple rocks
 Across an ocean that expands
 Further than the eye can see
 If there's no "I" in Free
 Then the blind man is me
 Please, meet me in the middle class family
 No need for sympathy no need for examining
 Eh, that is if you're into overlookin' the fact
 That every human has issues (issues)
 No matter what the dealer dealt
 You can never minimize how the other feeler felt
 It's like I thought so much about what other people had
 That I forgot myself
 How to be gracious for what I have
 That's what happens when survival needs are more than met
 And your role models warn you of the world you're in
 You start thinking about the race that you're racin' in
 Who you're runnin' with and exactly what you're up agains
 And I've always been the type to take a walk with someone else's shoes
 Take off runnin' but suddenly don't know what to do
 It's like the ground that was once under me
 Is now right in front of me
 And there's somethin' that I've been called to do
 All directions on the path leads straight to hell
 When I pass all my possessions are passed to someone else
 What's the use of tryna' to change somebody else
 When I got a trillion cells that are all yellin' for help? (help)
 Should I turn to the touch-screen ugly
 Or confess, come clean and touch reality?
 And if I really come down and touch reality
 Is it just real to part of me or real for all of me?
 And if time really does heal wounds
 Then may we all die way too soon
 Cave men sees straight through these rules
 But can't explain the tools he uses
 No matter what the dealer dealt
 You can never minimize how the other feeler felt
 It's like I thought so much about what other people had
 That I forgot myself
 How to be gracious for what I have
 That's what happens when survival needs are more than met
 And your role models warn you out the world you're in
 You start thinking about the race that you're racin' in
 Who you're runnin' with and exactly what you're up against