[Intro]
Eyes closed
Crowd loud
Heartbeats
Too proud
Little kid in the back row
Staring at a sky made of stage glow
Said one day I'ma stand right there
Shouting every single scar like a prayer
[Verse 1]
Now I'm grown with the same old ghosts
Talking in my ear when I get this close
Every doubt like a chain on my chest
Every breath saying “run” when I step to the edge
But I came from a town that forgot my name
Turned that quiet into fuel, turned fuel into flame
Mama with the bills and the borrowed time
So every single bar gotta sharpen the spine
Yeah, I bled on the page for a lil' bit of peace
Turned panic into poems, then poems into teeth
Now they bite when I rhyme, feel the grit in the groove
Every line that I write push the fear out the room (hey!)
[Pre-Chorus]
If I fall right now
Would it all make sense?
All this weight, all this doubt
All these bright regrets
But I’m still here, still here
With my hands in fists
If the world won’t lift me
I’ll rise like this
[Chorus]
I’m on that euphoric spiral
Spinning up, can’t pull me down
Tears on my face go viral
’Cause I turned my pain around
I was born in the quiet
Now I’m singing over storms so loud
Yeah, I made my own riot
Every heartbeat screaming out
[Verse 2]
Every “you can’t” turned fuel in my lungs
Every cold night wrote truth on my tongue
Used to talk to the dark in my bedroom
Now the whole world shout when the beat blooms
Clock tick, but I dance with the deadline
Edge walk, but I stare at the red line
Every fear that I got, I invite in
Let it sit in the front when I’m writing
I been cut, I been cracked, I been kicked to the curb
But I still came back with a fist full of words
Every “later” I heard, every favor deferred
Now I cash that check when the crowd go berserk (oh yeah!)
[Pre-Chorus]
If I break right now
Let my edges shine
All the fractures I hide
Are the proof I climbed
I’m still here, still here
With a voice that lifts
If the world goes silent
I’ll roar like this
[Chorus]
I’m on that euphoric spiral
Spinning up, can’t pull me down
Tears on my face go viral
’Cause I turned my pain around
I was born in the quiet
Now I’m singing over storms so loud
Yeah, I made my own riot
Every heartbeat screaming out
[Bridge]
Hands up
For the nights you drowned
For the words you swallowed
That could shake this ground
Hands up
For the ones who stayed
For the kid in the back
Who’ll be here one day (hey!)
[Chorus]
I’m on that euphoric spiral
Spinning up, can’t pull me down
Tears on my face go viral
’Cause I turned my pain around
I was born in the quiet
Now I’m singing over storms so loud
Yeah, I made my own riot
Every heartbeat screaming out