Verse 1
When the darkness tries to claim me it don’t ask if I’m alright,
It just waits until I’m quiet then it crawls into the night.
Depression pulls a seat up like it’s someone that I trust,
Anxiety sits next to it sayin’, “Everything will bust.”
Addiction in the doorway like, “You know you miss the numb,”
And the snake behind them whisperin’, “This is who you will become.”
He tells me I’m not strong enough, my soul is wearing thin,
That the pain I thought I buried’s gonna rise and win again.
Some nights I feel the pressure like it’s sittin’ on my chest,
Like the darkness knows my secrets and it’s holdin’ every test.
Like it memorized the moments I was too afraid to speak,
All the nights I hid the trauma just to make it through the week.
Hook
But I ain’t ever foldin’,
Even when the night gets cold,
Even when the lies get loud,
Even when the fear takes hold.
’Cause God keeps pullin’ harder
Than the serpent ever planned,
And even when my voice shakes
He still keeps me where I stand.
Verse 2
Some nights I hear the echoes of the things I never said,
All the memories I buried just to keep my heart ahead.
The snake be talkin’ calm like he’s been livin’ in my skin,
Sayin’, “Everything you’re fightin’ is a war you’ll never win.”
He tells me I’m a burden, that I’m broken past repair,
That the people who once loved me wouldn’t notice if I’m there.
And I hate how much it echoes, how it sounds like it’s the truth,
How it drags me back to moments I’ve been runnin’ from since youth.
Like the nights I felt abandoned, like the days I felt alone,
Like the pain I learned to swallow just to make it on my own.
But I’ve learned to hear the difference between poison and my soul,
Between the voice that wants me shattered and the One that makes me whole.
Hook
But I ain’t ever foldin’,
Even when the night gets cold,
Even when the lies get loud,
Even when the fear takes hold.
’Cause God keeps pullin’ harder
Than the serpent ever planned,
And even when my voice shakes
He still keeps me where I stand.
Bridge
I told God I’m exhausted from the nights that feel like traps,
From the memories that haunt me, from the weight upon my back.
From the failures that get louder every time the room is still,
From the serpent tryna tell me that I’ll never truly heal.
And He said, “Give Me the burdens that the darkness tries to claim,
Give Me every whispered lie that tries to call you by your shame.”
Verse 3
So when the darkness tries to claim me I remind it who I am,
Not the man it tried to break but the one who learned to stand.
Not the kid who carried wounds but the soul that learned to grow,
Not the voice that shook with fear but the one that’s in control.
And even when the shadows gather like an army at my door,
I know the serpent can’t take nothin’ God already claimed before.
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