[Intro] You you you you you you you you (yeah, yeah) You can’t see what’s seein’ you You can’t read what’s readin’ through (yeah) Bars on the glass bars in the brain Beast in the cage chewin’ the chain [Verse 1] You can’t see the literal, literary in your view Eyes on the letter, never lettin’ any meaning through Every line like a zoo with a mask on the glass, you relax Till the scratch of the claws start stackin’ in the cracks of the facts~ I’m the beast in the page with a page in my teeth Ink drip, cage drip, rage in the beat You just skim, just spin like a turnstile, blink I dive in the subtext, swim where you sink You read out loud but you miss what it’s sayin’ I breathe in loud, every word I’m flayin’ Bars bend, I’m bench-pressin’ paragraphs, heavy You just trace outlines, I’m inside already Got a mind full of mines, every line go boom You stuck in a room tryna guess what’s assumed I’m etchin’ an exit in every excuse While you stare at the proof and confuse it for truth (hey!) [Chorus] You can’t see the literal, literary in your view You just see walls, I see teeth chewin’ through Like a masked cage in a zoo, I’m starin’ at you Beast on the bars tryna break, tryna break through You can’t see the letters when they leap at your throat You just quote quotes, never feel what I wrote Like a masked cage in a zoo, I’m starin’ at you Beast in the bars tryna break, tryna break through (yeah, yeah) [Verse 2] Fast rap, crack glass, every phrase too quick You catch half, I stack drafts, let the pace do tricks Every syllable a shiv that I slip in the seams You just hum to the beat while I cut through the screen (yeah) You see rhyme, I see time, how it loops when I talk How a line can rewind every lie in the chalk How a bar can be steel, can be law, can be lock Or a saw in the jaw of the box that you walk I’m the clause in the contract you never did read Tiny little font where I plant my seed Grow a whole new world in the word “indeed” Turn a throwaway phrase to a creed you need You skim for the punch, I punch in the skin Double-meaning uppercut under your chin You laugh at the scheme, never see the machine How the caged animal claws from between each scene (woo) [Chorus] You you can’t see the literal, literary in your view You just see walls, I see teeth chewin’ through Like a masked cage in a zoo, I’m starin’ at you Beast on the bars tryna break, tryna break through You can’t see the letters when they leap at your throat You just quote quotes, never feel what I wrote Like a masked cage in a zoo, I’m starin’ at you Beast in the bars tryna break, tryna break through [Bridge] Mask on the face, mask on the frame Bars in the book, bars in the brain You see a rhyme, I see a vein You hear a line, I hear a chain (clank) Scratch on the glass, that’s me, that’s me Claw to the clause, tryna get free If you can’t see past what you view Who really locked in—the beast or you? (huh?) [Chorus] You can’t see the literal, literary in your view You just see walls, I see teeth chewin’ through Like a masked cage in a zoo, I’m starin’ at you Beast on the bars tryna break, tryna break through You can’t see the letters when they leap at your throat You just quote quotes, never feel what I wrote Like a masked cage in a zoo, I’m starin’ at you Beast in the bars tryna break, tryna~ break