[Intro - Slow, melodic]
A shovel goes untouched…
While a man fades into the ground…
Nothing found…
Nothing found…
[Verse 1 - Fast]
A shovel goes untouched while a man gets swallowed by the dirt,
Every day another battle, every lesson gotta hurt.
Empty-handed, turnin’ back, thinkin’ maybe it ain’t worth it,
Grabbed the handle just to leave, but the clay said, “You deserve this.”
Now it’s stuck, so am I, guess we’re both a little broken,
Every swing another prayer, every blister left unspoken.
Bucket by bucket, tryna bury what I carry,
Scare away the Frey, but the weight is gettin’ heavy.
Tell myself one more scoop and maybe that’ll be enough,
One more load up out the pit, one more layer of the stuff.
One more swing against the dark, one more shot against the pain,
But the hole keeps getting deeper every time I say the same.
[Hook - Slow, melodic]
Maybe one more shovel
Will carry it away…
Maybe one more sunrise
Will get me through the day…
But the earth keeps callin’
And the hole remains…
One more shovel…
One more shovel…
Tryna dig away the pain…
[Verse 2 - Fast]
Then a rock gets struck, hear the crack through the silence,
Handle split in half, man, the timing felt like violence.
Wood broke, spirit too, both of us fell together,
Face-first in the mud while I’m fightin’ stormy weather.
Buried in the dirt, not a treasure to be found,
Just a solemn little echo of an ever-silent sound.
Universe laughin’, lightning flashin’ through the smoke,
Like the whole damn thing was built upon a cosmic joke.
No longer just a pathway, now it’s somethin’ like a grave,
Years of labor in a pit that nobody came to save.
Still I whispered to myself through the mud and through defeat,
“Just a little bit more effort, and the circle is complete.”
[Bridge - Half-sung, half-rapped]
Years pass…
Still barren…
Still afraid…
A monument to will
That refused to fade…
Maybe all the things we build
Aren’t built from what we gain…
Maybe they’re the scars we leave
From survivin’ all the pain…
[Verse 3 - Build]
One hole becomes two, that’s the way the story grows,
Every generation diggin’ where the last one never chose.
Lookin’ at the sky, waitin’ for a sign to come,
Then the darkness starts to split and reveals the moon.
Now the hole’s illuminated,
Every crack exposed.
Every truth we tried to bury,
Every secret that we chose.
And I finally understand
What the years were tryin’ to teach:
The earth ain’t getting lighter,
You just learn to lift the weight beneath.
[Final Hook - Big melodic ending]
A life…
A story…
A proverb and a creed…
The hole keeps getting deeper
With every unforgiving deed…
But the moon still shines above it,
And the light still finds a way…
So I keep on diggin’
Though the pain may never fade…
One more shovel…
One more shovel…
That’s all I ever need…
