[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
[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