"Programmed Not To Cry" lyrics

I'm not a robot
I compartmentalize
Shove it deep deep down
Try your best but you'll never catch it in my eyes
You say you want a man's man
No big emotional display
Well, thanks my father, and his father, and his pops before I can smile while walk away

You'll never see it on my face
Though you've left our love to die
And it's not that I don't care
It's just I was programmed not to cry
So, you can burn it to the ground
Say every moment's been a lie
I'm only what the world has taught me
And I was programmed not to cry

I don't need a life raft, I don't need a life vest
Cause when you took a hard right I just made a hard left
You want a big reaction your swimming pool eyes, wet
But something I was not shown is something I cannot forget

Or I won't allow
If I lock up regret
Then I can lock you out, I know how

You'll never see it on my face
Though you've left our love to die
And it's not that I don't care
It's just I was programmed not to cry
So, you can burn it to the ground
Say every moment's been a lie
I'm only what the world has taught me
And I was programmed not to cry

Cause I might drown, drown drown
If I let my guard down down

But I can't drown drown drown
If I don't know how
I might drown, drown drown
If I let my guard down down down
But I can't drown drown drown
If I don't know how (oh, I don't know how)

In an ocean (of nothing)
About to go under
Or will I keep on treading right here till the day I die?
If I could be open
Can't help but wonder
And I can't break this streak
Can't let myself be weak

You'll never see it on my face
Though you left our love to die
It's not that I don't care
It's just I was programmed not to cry
You can burn it to the ground
Say every moment's been a lie
I'm only what the world has taught me