Hairpin Turns of Life

White lines blur on a cracked old road

Every plan that I had explodes

Took a left where the map said right

Now I’m kissing the guardrail of my pride

Skid marks cut through the past I knew

Burnt rubber and the smoke of truth

Every scar is a sharp red turn

Every lesson a joint that burns

Life’s hard turns

Rip the wheel from my hands

Let it burn

I stall

I swerve

But I don’t break

I only learn

Life’s hard turns

Throw me into the wall

I return

Bent but firm

I twist

I twist

But I still turn

Gravel flies when the trust gives out

Friends flake when the cash runs out

Mom calls

Says my time runs thin

But the clock keeps carving into skin

I’ve crashed jobs

I’ve wrecked my faith

Left pieces of myself in every place

But out of every twisted mile

I crawl out

Bleeding

With a darker smile (yeah)

Life’s hard turns

Rip the wheel from my hands

Let it burn

I stall

I swerve

But I don’t break

I only learn

Life’s hard turns

Throw me into the wall

I return

Bent but firm

I twist

I twist

But I still turn

[Halftime

Crushing breakdown]

Hit that black ice

Spun out through my own lies

Thought the straight road meant I was safe

Now I thank every crash I made

Every sharp bend

Split me open

Made me mend

If this ride ends in the dirt

I’ll carve “I lived” into the earth (hey!)

Life’s hard turns

Rip the wheel from my hands

Let it burn

I stall

I swerve

But I don’t break

I only learn

Life’s hard turns

Throw me into the wall

I return

Bent but firm

I twist

I twist

But I still turn