Envy

Yeah, I've seen that stare before
That fake love with a knife behind it
I know what that is
That's envy
That's envy
That's envy
Yeah, yeah, yeah

You study every move like it's a match or something sacred
Try to trace my hands, but what I make can't be duplicated
You want the name, the praise, the weight, the look of 
being chosen
But you can't fake the nights I bled when every door was 
closing

You borrow from the surface, I was born inside the pressure
You chase the quick reaction, I was building something 
better
You wanna wear my skin like it was stitched for your 
ambition
But soul don't come in copies, and pain don't lend 
permission

You can mimic all the posture
Quote the words and steal the frame
But when the room gets stripped down bare
You still gotta stand in your own name

Envy, that's the sickness in your eyes when you look at 
what I've built
Got you stealing other people's truth to cover up your 
guilt
You want the sound, the soul, the weight, the reason I 
exist
But you'll never be the source by living off what you can't
 give

Envy, I can see it
Envy
You want it
Envy
That's envy
Envy

Yeah, yeah, yeah
You take and take and just say that like you advancing fire
But everything you touch, it shows a hunger underneath 
desire
No love in what you create or respect for what this cost me
You only want the crown because you never could outwork me
You move like borrowed confidence, loud enough to sound 
convincing
But at the end, can't hold a gift that only comes from real
 conviction
You do it all for clout, for a moment, for attention
A tree of claws for strangers with no roots and no 
intention
And every branch you brag about, but you never really stand
 in
You burn through fake connections with a brand and call it 
planning
You used every man you could, every rumor, the conversation
Still came out looking smaller than the dream of your 
creation

You can chase what isn't yours
Wear something trying to pull
But borrowed heat dies fast
And you got nothing of your own to use

Envy, that's the poison that you hide behind the grin you 
wear
Got you reaching for my life because your hands come up air
You want the gift without the grief, the rise without the 
fall
But you'll never touch the truth that there was never truth
 at all

I know that look
That, that, that, that, that, that, that's envy
Envy
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Envy

I don't hate you
I just see you
And that cuts deeper than you know
Passion ain't a costume
Respect ain't something you can borrow
No matter who you use
No matter where you go
What's missing in you still shows

That's envy
It still shows
Envy
Envy
Envy
That's the chain around your spirit every time you say my 
name
That's the Moon that keeps on growing while you pray a 
little game
You can take the crumbs, the scraps, the shell of what I do
But the heart behind it, I was never made for people like 
you
That's envy
Envy
Can't be stolen
That's envy
Envy
I know what that is
Envy
That's envy