The Recluse

[Chorus:]
Oh yeah, they call me the recluse,
‘Cause I don’t go outside for nothing.
No one is gonna make me leave this room,
Oh no, they can’t tell me nothing, no way.

[Verse 1:]
You see I’m being a fool,
It gets so I don’t care about being cool.
What’s it to you?
If I just stay here in this hole that I’m boarded into.

[Chorus:]
Oh yeah, they call me the recluse,
‘Cause I don’t go outside for nothing.
No one is gonna make me leave this room,
Oh no, they can’t tell me nothing, no way.

[Verse 2:]
You see, I ain’t thinking clear,
Yes so I don’t know, I’m feeling sorry for myself.
Who asked you to interfere?
How would you really know what is or isn’t good for my health?

Why don’t you leave me alone?
I ain’t hurting nobody, why you up in my face?
Get up out my soul,
Why can’t you just let me get through my time this way?

[Chorus:]
Oh yeah, they call me the recluse,
‘Cause I don’t go outside for nothing.
No one is gonna make me leave this room,
Oh no they can’t tell me nothing, no way, no way, yeah.

Can’t tell me nothing.
They can’t tell me nothing,
They can’t tell me nothing.


Sitting here by myself, looking mad at myself,
Thinking “I don’t wanna go out there.”
I don’t need no help, looking after myself,
I got everything I need right here.
I ain’t trying to impress anyone in this cesspit jail,
I just don’t care.
I ain’t gotta smell fresh for no woman,
So I’m blessed not washing my skin or my hair.
They can call me a recluse, they ain’t gonna remove,
Or cut me loose from this place, I’m locked in hiding.
Like a rocker wall moves, ’cause you know,
I’ve gotten used to the space that I’m occupying.
There really ain’t anything out there but the wind,
They’d enjoy more than see me crying.
So I do it in my room, where none of these goons can see me.
Though I know they’ve been trying.

I ain’t cut out for this shit, I’m a coward I admit,
I’ve never been no big thing.
The thought of killing makes me sick,
But I don’t wanna be no victim, no way, not Strickland.
So I just stay in my cell like I’m bricked in,
And hope that stops me from getting kicked in.
Even if it earns me this nickname in prison…

[Chorus:]
Oh yeah, they call me the recluse,
‘Cause I don’t go outside for nothing.
No one is gonna make me leave this room,
Oh no, they can’t tell me nothing, no way.

Oh yeah, they call me the recluse,
‘Cause I don’t go outside for nothing.
No one is gonna make me leave this room,
Oh no, they can’t tell me nothing.