[Verse 1]
Born in the gutter, where the sun don't beam,
Nightmares danced, broke apart every dream,
Tears in the dust, broken souls in the seams,
Chasing bread crumbs, life tore at the team.
[Chorus]
Climbing out the mud, uphill every day,
Scars on my heart, but I found me a way,
Ghosts from the past still whisper what I owe,
But I'm building a castle where the weeds used to grow.
[Verse 2]
Hand-me-down shoes, soles thinner than paychecks,
Ducking shots nightly, my block was a paycheck,
Hope in a jar, dropped and shattered on pavement,
Now I’m framing fortunes with my pain as the statement.
[Bridge]
The old me’s a shadow, I left him in the alley,
Echoes of the struggle still climbing through the valley,
Cold wind whispers, regret tries to matter,
But I’m stitching new life from the tattered gray pattern.
[Chorus]
Climbing out the mud, uphill every day,
Scars on my heart, but I found me a way,
Ghosts from the past still whisper what I owe,
But I'm building a castle where the weeds used to grow.
[Verse 3]
Fists full of splinters, I was fighting time’s clock,
Now I’m stacking seconds to the rhythm of my knock,
Windows cracked dreams, now they gleam in the sky,
Used to run from the storm, now I’m learning to fly.