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