Do you really know me

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You call me names or assume we're the same but,

Do you really know me?

You say I've never done anything wrong

You believe because i don't want to fight you I'm not strong but

Do you really know me?

Further more if you knew me, would you even see?

My struggle to figure out who I'm trying to be

You call me lazy and say i always try to avoid class

But my reason are legitimate and you'd know if you bothered to ask

You critisize what I do and don't do, say and don't say

Never bothering to realize to wonder why i am this way

And all the while you go on about how you are a leader

Even though you follow others because its what most people do

You can't be a sheep and still lead, not that you ever tried

But I think there's more to you to tell the truth

So I ignore all the insults you throw my way

I'll take a few mean words cause i can see

That maybe you're in your own pain

and thats why you try to hurt me

But I'll never be the hypocrite and do the same

Because i admit even though i know your name

I don't really know you or what your going through

And unlike a certain someone I'd never assume to

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