SAY LESS - MC D.P

Spoken

You ninjas listen up — and I mean listen, not hear.

There's a difference. You lot been hearing women for years

and still coming up short.

MC D.P here -- listen up.

Verse 1

Said he'd call at eight, she checked the clock at nine,

double tick gone blue but his excuse was live and lined —

"got caught up, got busy, battery died" —

bare long, allow it, she's heard every alibi,

(heard it all before)

patterned him the first week, clocked it in his eyes,

the way he talks in circles, promise parcelled up in lies,

violates the basics then he wonders why she's quiet,

why she stopped responding, why the energy's gone dry —

it ain't mysterious, it ain't complicated either,

she was reading every signal like a seasoned cold receiver,

wasteman moves committed in the name of being eager,

showing up with flavour but his follow-through was fever,

(all talk, no show)

texts her something sweet then leaves it sitting, never lands it,

tells her she's the one then lets her watch him not expand it —

the audacity is candid, fam, the pattern's nearly branded,

either mean it when you say it or just leave the ting alone

Chorus

Show up

(show up)

Mean what you say

(mean what you say)

Don't bring her flowers

if you won't stay

She don't need the talking

she needs the proof

Be her rock, ninja

or just move

(just move)

Show up

(show up)

Do what you say

(do what you say)

That's all she's asking

every single day

Verse 2

See a fly girl settles when she's certain of the ground,

when she leans and something solid, something steady's what she's found,

not a man who's loud and lavish with his lips around a vow,

but the one who said a little, then delivered on it — now

(now she breathes)

she's relaxed inside her softness, she can lay her armour down,

she ain't scanning every message for the tell inside the sound,

she's not second-guessing silence, she's not reading in between,

'cause the space between his saying and his doing's kept it clean —

that's the feeling that she's after, not the flowers not the lines,

not the late night declarations, not the carefully crafted signs —

she wants stillness in the knowing, wants the call to come on time,

(on time)

wants the man to be the anchor, not another thing to mind,

she's been managing the household of her heart for long enough,

carrying the questions, keeping composure, staying tough —

one man who means it when he speaks is worth the whole charade,

and that's the game you're losing, ninja,

every time a promise fades

(every time)

Chorus

Show up

(show up)

Mean what you say

(mean what you say)

Don't bring her flowers

if you won't stay

She don't need the talking

she needs the proof

Be her rock, ninja

or just move

(just move)

Show up

(show up)

Do what you say

(do what you say)

That's all she's asking

every single day

Bridge

Let me break it down for the ones in the back —

it ain't about the rizz, it ain't about the track,

it ain't the compliments, the cologne, or the chat,

it's simple: do you do what you say?

(do you?)

Full stop. Fact.

She clocked you in a week, she gave you time regardless,

she's not asking you to flex, she's asking — are you solid?

(are you solid?)

Be her rock. Not her project. Not her pattern to decode.

Say less. Show up. Carry what you