Jarell Perry - When It's Real lyrics

It's so much harder when it's real, when the facts get revealed Contracts, the deals get enacted Appeal and attraction are feelings for actions Compare and contrast all the pairs of your past Had pa**ion in the back of a cab Found caution in the captions that would pa** from your hand Overreacting at a casual strand of conversation Dramatic in the manner demanded by occupations Like ours, we're the ones, the animals on stage That strike at the captor from the cage Started acting like our age, all estranged by the factors That will change our reactions, redactions to the page Malaise of distractions, interactions and the ways and the patterns Of the day, seem to keep us away I was hoping you would ask me to stay but that would be too real It's probably better if we keep it this way It's so much harder when it's real, on the strength She relinquished her grip from the head of the wheel It was tentative, envisioned a seal being diminished Had to steal all of our kisses, imprisoned by the feel An extension of decisions we reeled off Tensions get peeled off like stickers, the flickers of light bleed On the pictures, on the nights you remember We were seen walking bridges, low degrees, making scenes in the winter I was pleased to deliver facsimiles Of an act that you needed for the practice, I pleaded “I'm compulsive, an addict, had to have it” Impulses and habits, they got combustive, had you shocked by the static No, it's not automatic, like we thought it would be I look around in all directions when you're talking at me Caught a panic when you got me to leave It's just confidence tricks from a profiting thief, that's all it be