Soon as you reach the city limit
Well right there's your limit
Paper bird you wanna fly away
But there's no future in it
Got the blood on the door
It's you that you sacrificed
Traded wings for a temporary
Peace of mind

Numbed the feeling with ease
You just let them cop your steez
Like you got more where that came
From, they didn't even say please
That's the kind that you stray from
Kind that can't even say something
Kind that turns 'round the knife to
Switch the role that you play for them

Just to soothe the story in their mind
That they made up over a period of time
cnd your true narrative is something
That they didn't like so it was too imperative
To plot on all of your demise

Look in my eyes look at me
Let me tell you something
It's not like it's permanent
It's something you can alter
You weren't paper when this started
You were made to prosper
Now it's time to cut the dead
Weight that you're locked to

What does it mean to feel this free
How'd I lose sight of what I see right
Now 'cause it's clear right now

What do you mean by this isn't real life
‘Cause I love the sights I see right now
See right now, there's no paper birds around

Extra extra read all about it
I see you questioning, pestering
Tryna talk your way out it and
One suggestion 'cause I feel your
Mind is pretty clouded, if you don't
Move the way you talk your shows
Will never be crowded

You'll never be something you're
Proud of with a heart like that
Don't even know if you got one
cin't that shit so sad, you love
Control and you only love it your way
Now there's a hole in my heart for
Where you used to stay

Yeah I've been too nice
That's what's everybody thinks
I always try to keep the peace
But now that's down the sink
You hear a story then go tell it
cs your own and that's a slap
In the face for the people's stories
You told

The people's stories you stole
To gain some pity, attention
I watched it happen everything
That I mentioned, I'm bigger, taller
Realer than I used to be, now I know
It matters the company that you keep

Wow look what I found
I don't feel the same way now
Thought I'd keep it buried underground
Now I'm digging all the pennies out

Ooh watch what I do
I can make a lot from a few
Take a dollar turn it into two
cin't no one around gonna me lose

What does it mean to feel this free
How'd I lose sight of what I see right
Now 'cause it's clear right now

What do you mean by this isn't real life
‘Cause I love the sights I see right now
See right now, there's no paper birds around

Paper bird, paper bird
What's the word, what's the word
Tryna take the weight off so I can
Go and take off, take off yeah

Paper bird, paper bird
So hat's the word, what's the word
Tryna take the weight off
Yeah so I can go and take off