Track · Apr 29, 2026 · English

Locked Away Men

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3:39

Language

English

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I learned to bite my tongue

Before I learned to pray

Smile when the room gets heavy

Swallow it and stay

Dad said, “Hold it in”

Like that was how to live

So I wore a quiet armor

And forgot how to give

I got pain in my chest

That I never let out

Hard to call it weakness

When that’s all you been about

[Pre-Chorus]

I sit with it alone

Till it turns to stone

I need a place to fall

But I keep it on my own

[Chorus]

Locked away, locked away

I keep my heart in chains

Locked away, locked away

And I don’t say the names

I’m breaking slow

But I can’t let it show

Locked away, locked away

That’s the way I know

[Verse 2]

Brother, I seen you nod

When your eyes say “I’m gone”

We both got different faces

Same dark room we’re drawn from

We trade jokes for cover

We trade smoke for peace

But the thing that haunts us

Never leaves the lease

At the barber shop chair

At the dinner plate

We talk ’bout work and weather

Then we seal the gate

And I hate that we do this

Every time we bleed

We got whole lives screaming

And no words we can need

[Pre-Chorus]

I sit with it alone

Till it turns to stone

I need a place to fall

But I keep it on my own

[Chorus]

Locked away, locked away

I keep my heart in chains

Locked away, locked away

And I don’t say the names

I’m breaking slow

But I can’t let it show

Locked away, locked away

That’s the way I know

[Bridge]

Maybe strength ain’t silence

Maybe fear ain’t fate

Maybe one small truth

Could come through the gate

If I say I’m hurting

Would you still stay near?

If I let the flood come

Would you disappear?

[Final Chorus]

Locked away, locked away

I keep my heart in chains

Locked away, locked away

And I don’t say the names

I’m breaking slow

But I can’t let it show

Locked away, locked away

Please don’t leave me here

[Outro]

I’ve been tough so long

I forgot my own name

Locked away, locked away

Still begging for a flame

Style

hip hop with male vocalsslow head-nod groove and sparse piano loops under aching violin lines; verse rides low and confessional with tight kickmuted snareand half-time bouncepre-chorus strips to piano and breathchorus opens with stacked hook doubles and a crying violin answer. bridge drops to almost bare keys and vocal crackthen final chorus returns with fuller stringsad-lib echoesand a coldintimate mixviolinhip hopsadrapenglish

Prompt

A sad and tragic and heartbreaking and haunting song how it’s difficult to be a man because we can’t open up we can’t talk about our feelings so we lock them away, rap, hip hop, piano, violin, male

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GeneratedApr 29, 2026

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