Ain’t Your Project

[Verse 1]
Got these three little faces
Two princess crowns
And a wild little king
They know the real man standing here
They don’t ask me to change a thing
I’ve walked out them iron shadows
Paid in time for stories spun
You can smell a lie from a mile now
Once you’ve watched your whole life come undone

[Chorus]
I ain’t your project
I ain’t your dream
I ain’t that picture living in your head
Girl
Drawn in make-believe
Take me honest
Cracked and true
Or just let me be
‘Cause
Baby
I know who I am
You can’t update me

[Verse 2]
You love the way I’m steady
Till you fear the way I don’t bend
Start picking at my edges
Try to turn me into some pretend
Your doubts start driving stories
Paint me cruel
Paint me cold
You trade my name for your nightmares
Till the good in us grows old

[Chorus]
I ain’t your project
I ain’t your dream
I ain’t that picture living in your head
Girl
Drawn in make-believe
Take me honest
Cracked and true
Or just let me be
‘Cause
Baby
I know who I am
You can’t update me

[Bridge]
I’ve danced with charming poison
Smiled at sugar-coated steel (oh yeah)
Heard “forever” from a stranger
Who loved the chase more than the real
Now I keep my circle smaller
Where trust is earned
Slow and small
If you can’t hold the man I am
Then don’t hold me at all

[Chorus]
I ain’t your project
I ain’t your dream
I ain’t that picture living in your head
Girl
Drawn in make-believe
Take me honest
Cracked and true
Or just let me be
‘Cause
Baby
I know who I am
You can’t update me (no, no)
Yeah
I know just who I am
You won’t rewrite me