[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
Uhh, yeah!
He just sits, and watches the people in the boxes,
Everything he sees, he absorbs and adopts it,
He mimics and he mocks it,
Really hates the box but he can't remember how to stop it.
Uhh, so he continues to watch it,
Hoping that it'll give him something that he can box with,
Or how the locksmith see the box as locked in the box,
Ain't got the combination to unlock it.
That's why he watches scared to look away,
‘Cause at that moment, it might show him
What to take off the locks with.
So he chained himself to the box, took a lock and then he locked it,
Swallowed the combination and then forgot it,
As the doctors jot it all down, with they pens and pencils,
The same ones that took away his voice
And just left this instrumental, like that.
[Chorus: Jonah Matranga & Lupe Fiasco]
And he never lies,
He never lies, he never lies, uhh.
And he never lies,
Uhh, he never lies, he never lies, no!
And he never lies,
He never lies.
Cause he never said anything at all.
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
He just sits and listens to the people in the boxes,
Everything he hears, he absorbs and adopts it,
Anything not comin' out the box, he blocks it,
See he loves the box and hope they never stop it.
Anything the box tell him to do, he does it,
Anything it tell him to get, he shops and he cops it,
He protects the box, locks it in a box,
When he goes to sleep, but he never sleeps
‘Cause he stays up to watch it, scared to look away
‘Cause at that moment, it might get stolen,
And that's the last of the boxes.
So he chained himself to the box, took a lock and then he locked it,
Swallowed the combination and then forgot it,
As the doctors jot it all down with they pens and pencils,
The same ones that took away his voice
And just left this instrumental, like that.
[Chorus: Jonah Matranga & Lupe Fiasco]
And he never lies,
He never lies, he never lies, uhh.
And he never lies,
Uhh, he never lies, he never lies, no!
And he never lies,
He never lies.
Cause he never said anything at all.
[Bridge: Lupe Fiasco]
He never lies.
Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are,
You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars,
You built that roof just to hide those stars,
Now you can't take it back to the start.
And you can't tell me just who you are,
You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars,
You built that roof just to hide those stars,
Now you can't take it back to the start.
[Chorus: Jonah Matranga & Lupe Fiasco]
And he never lies,
He never lies, he never lies, uhh.
And he never lies,
Uhh, he never lies, he never lies, no!
And he never lies,
He never lies.
Cause he never said anything at all.
[Bridge: Lupe Fiasco]
He never lies.
Uhh, and you can't tell me just who you are,
You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars,
You built that roof just to hide those stars,
Now you can't take it back to the start.
And you can't tell me just who you are,
You buyin' them clothes just to hide those scars,
You built that roof just to hide those stars,
Now you can't take it back to the start.