Got to Be Video (MV)

Let me be quiet
'Cause you seem to have all the answers
How can you deny it
When I've given you all these chances
And I'm sick of you taking us all
Shaping and breaking us all
And you're making this impossible
I'm worried 'bout everyone else
And this tension is optional
Yet you, remain an obstacle
And I know
I could say a thousand things
There's a million ways to show
I don't care what wisdom brings
Because in the end I know
You won't follow me
But maybe that's the way it's got to be
'Cause you don't understand it
This ain't gonna change shit
A couple quarter notes won't make you see
That there's middle ground but if we don't meet
I guess that's the way it's got to be
So you won't follow me
I should probably tell you a thing or three
But if I wrote it, played it, sang it, you wouldn't think it any differently
I'll stop making peace
But more importantly
I hope that you realize, when you look in these, that you decide
To stop trying to take us all
Shaping and breaking us all
And you're making this impossible
I'm worried 'bout everyone else
And this tension is optional
Yet you, remain an obstacle
Go ahead, and tell all you're friends
That you hate this song
And I know
I could say a thousand things
There's a million ways to show
I don't care what wisdom brings
Because in the end I know
You won't follow me
But maybe that's the way it's got to be
'Cause you don't understand it
This ain't gonna change shit
A couple quarter notes won't make you see
That there's middle ground but if we don't meet
I guess that's the way it's got to
I said I ain't tryna change you
Not gonna try to have that talk if you don't want to
Doesn't matter 'bout the crazy backwardness of your views
Doesn't matter 'bout the same shit that we go through
Don't shoot the messenger for something that you can't do
Can't catch our breath, so we're hanging onto our roots
Couldn't I just argue that we're all the same
Couldn't I just argue that we're all afraid
Ain't tryna change you
If you don't want to
Doesn't matter
What we go through
Don't shoot
I can't breathe
This isn't the way it's got to be
Maybe we're the same
Please don't be afraid
We're what we got to be
And I know
I could say a thousand things
There's a million ways to show
I don't care what wisdom brings
Because in the end I know
You won't follow me
But maybe that's the way it's got to be
'Cause you don't understand it
This ain't gonna change shit
A couple quarter notes won't make you see
That there's middle ground but if we don't meet
I guess that's the way it's got to be