Know Yourself (feat. Fergus James)

Know you don't have to play their games

Lose yourself just to fit their frames

Don't need to throw your hope

Down that wishing well

If you just know, know, know yourself

Yo, when I was just a whippersnapper playin' with my action figures

By the river, dandelion wishin', catchin' crickets

They used to say that I was strange and that Max was different

My mama said they must be crazy, baby, that's your ticket

With mum and dad all I'd feel was pleasure

The memories they left with me became my realist treasure

And then my parents split, it wasn't easy or fun

But now I gots to man up 'cause it's just me and my mum

I was young

And even though we lived in housing commission

Love decorated every house that we lived in

And all that love she'd give me

Would only up and lift me

But when she passed, I wore a mask like no one really gets me

So all I had to do was just remember what was real

She'd want me to be happy and my heart to seal and heal

So now that I'm a daddy, I'ma show you what's the deal

Make this house a home so that love is all you feel, yo

Know you don't have to play their games

Lose yourself just to fit their frames

Don't need to throw your hope

Down that wishing well

If you just know, know, know yourself

Growin' up I always knew I was different

On that yellow bus, it's tough to fit in

A world ruled by the cool

So run, little lamb, to that school full of wolves

I'm dressed in red, just look at my wool mama

These bullies are bulls and I am the bullseye

I, I felt so alone

And when ya ostracised

You want to hide like the ostrich eyes

Yeah, I cried when I got my first girlfriend

And she broke my heart, it's like the whole damn world ends

But really it doesn't

If I could go back, I would tell my younger self that everything would be alright

Listen these ain't L's, be cool J

Even Batman didn't know what he become when he was just a young Bruce Wayne

So keep paddling Johnny

You'll surf that blue wave

Know you don't have to play their games

Lose yourself just to fit their frames

Don't need to throw your hope

Down that wishing well

If you just know, know, know yourself

No, you don't have to run away

Lose yourself like your tears in the rain

Let your better angels break you out of this hell

Because your soul's gold, know yourself

Know, know, know yourself