Don't Wanna Hear It

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Jack Manley

Joseph Jackson Manley (September 20, 1929 – November 25, 2014) was an American football center who played for the San Francisco 49ers. He played college football at Mississippi State University, having previously attended Hazelwood High School in Alabama. more »

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They don't wanna hear it
Sometimes I wish that they could feel it
They tell me to speak out before it drags me down
But do they really mean it?
Oh no, they don't want to hear it
Oh how I wish that they could feel it
They tell me to speak out before it drags me down
But do they really mean it?
Am I being selfish? I wish I could help this
Boy inside my mind, so scared of what he'd find
Shaking in the silence, living inside the vibrance
Of a life that I had made
But who would believe him?
A daily DMC with his demons
Said opening up would only lead to the ones you love leaving
Until one night a whiskey brought this overwhelming feeling
He's got to let it out before his subconscious starts scheming
Against his life, so wrench the knife
It's fine, he must be dreaming
He'd never have this courage without sleep or being steaming
But tonight said "somebody pinch me, I know I'm tipsy, but it's real and
"Today's the day I'll tell the world how badly I've been dealing"
But oh no it didn't go how he thought
He didn't know that he'd bought
A one-way ticket to his feelings just to be ignored
Yeah, what they had in store was much darker than expected
This world he's in has got their minds infected
It's got their minds interested in the superficial
This boy's getting colder
Like money they're invested in his money
The world's rested on his shoulders
This boy from nowhere's not ready for getting older
The pressure's mounting up
I'm counting up until it's over
He said I understand that others stand with needs and come before me
It's one thing keeping me grounded, but it's another to just ignore me
It breaks his heart to watch the ones he loves tear him apart
They say that pain informs art
But praying that this won't last
Cause they don't want to hear it
Sometimes I wish that they could feel it
They tell me to speak out before it drags me down
But do they really mean it?
Oh no, they don't want to hear it
Oh how I wish that they could feel it
They tell me to speak out before it drags me down
But do they really mean it?
Everybody wants you to open up, until the day you do
Then it's "Stop overreacting", give a sigh and an eye roll
Getting déjà vu
When I should be getting a grip, I'm letting it slip
Be a man, man it's nothing new
Now everything that I can't say is another day I'll draw it into another tattoo
"You don't have a right to complain"
Why?
"Well think about the money that you make"
Right
"No one's gunna take you serious
"You think they're gunna care? You're delirious
"About 'share how you feel and your fears with us'
"Well don't dare 'cause you know that it's clear to us
"Not everything is about your mental state
"Ungrateful, that's how you appear to us"
They think I'm living the dream
I've said it before, how much more do they need?
I've given up opening up to anyone
I'll just pretend that it's 'reem'
My sadness just beneath the surface, trying to break through
And people wonder how my party trick is crying on cue
But man nobody's listening
Maybe that's better 'cause right now I'm glistening in their eyes
I need a getaway car to hide the fact I'm nigh the Jack
They thought they knew, nor know
I ought to prove, to fake, to show
The lies on top of the truth, I'll rise
The insecurities are seeping through my disguise
I'm drowning under the pressure of all of this thunder
Man it's frightening since deciding
To step into this spotlight-ning
I'm only here to make them proud, but man it's sending me scatty
It's lonely here, the truth is I've never been more unhappy
But they don't wanna hear it
I'd never wish for them to feel it
They tell me to speak out
Before it drags me down
But do they really mean it?
Who am I when the lights go out and no one's there to help?
I'll let the tears come rolling 'cause now I can be myself
And cringe in the shame of everything that I have done
And binge in the hatred for the man that I've become
See it took them by surprise when I said here's not where I'm staying
They look me in the eyes but never what I've been saying
Tell me "swallow up your pride, look where you are boy, just get on with it
"You could be stood on top of the world and still find something wrong with it"

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