A Real Man

Yeah

Yeah, she says she wants a real man

One who opens up the door, who holds her hand

And still smiles when he feels bad

In control of his emotions, wears his heart on his sleeve

But don't get mad

One who gives her all his time, puts his dreams to the side

And gets a real bag

Yeah, she says she wants a real man

But what she wants is not for real, man

Realest story ever told

Can't have a man who's making money, always home

Heart like a truck, that's why he's always on the road

Providing everything you need to live the life you say you want

Can't have a man who wears his heart on a sleeve

That won't rip once in a while at the seams

Especially if you never take the time to look into his eyes

And hear him when he silently screams

Yeah, she says she wants a real man

One who opens up the door, who holds her hand

And still smiles when he feels bad

In control of his emotions, wears his heart on his sleeve

But don't get mad

One who gives her all his time, puts his dreams to the side

And gets a real bag

Yeah, she says she wants a real man

But what she wants is not for real, man

That Disney movie that she wanted was a dream and not reality

Or something that she got

She put that man up on a pedestal

Discards him when she found out he was human, then he dropped

He's not perfect, but oh, he tries

To live up to her beautiful lie

But as time goes by, he'll realize

The man he once knew on the inside of him died

Yeah, she says she wants a real man

One who opens up the door, who holds her hand

And still smiles when he feels bad

In control of his emotions, wears his heart on his sleeve

But don't get mad

One who gives her all his time, puts his dreams to the side

And gets a real bag

Yeah, she says she wants a real man

But what she wants is not for real, man

Love is patient

Love is kind

Can't be evil and also blind

God made man, then said in life

He'll find good things when he finds his wife

So as a real man, broken and confused

Struggling, not knowing what to do

He dove to the bottom of the bottle, drowned in his sorrows

And prayed one day she would rescue

By stop pointing out all his mistakes, be the place he felt safe

To express the emotions the world said he can't

He's the rock that she needs but she hammers away

At the love that he has like she wants it to break

Despite all of the pain, twisted and changed

Trying to become the whole picture she paints

Till she woke up one day, said she's walking away

Looked him dead in the face and then screamed

Yeah, she says she wants a real man

One who opens up the door, who holds her hand

And still smiles when he feels bad

In control of his emotions, wears his heart on his sleeve

But don't get mad

One who gives her all his time, puts his dreams to the side

And gets a real bag

Yeah, she says she wants a real man

But what she wants is not for real, man