Venom Bath

I step in, venom in my teeth

Cold grin, steel in the wreath

You talk tough, but you fold fast

I been cut, still moved past

Bath water red from the past

Old pain never meant to last

Ouchie when the truth come through

I learned how to wear that bruise

Hands shook, now they stay steady

Hit once, then I’m back ready

No saint, I got scars that show

Still I rise when the whole room low

Say my name, I don’t flinch

Deep breath, then I inch by inch

Pain talk, I make it sing

One more step, let the whole block ring

Venom in my veins

I don’t break, I change

Bath of all that pain

Still I stand the same

Venom in my veins

You can’t hold these chains

Ouchie made me mean

Now I live my name

Knife-edge words in a small-town room

Everybody want smoke, then doom

I got cuts where the doubt ran deep

But I built back strong from the weak

Sink low, then I blast back up

Hard knocks tried to spill my cup

Suffer turned to a sharpened stare

Now I walk like I own that air

You can laugh when the lights go dim

I’ve seen worse in the mirror’s rim

Venom on my tongue when I speak that truth

Every bruise got proof in the booth

Say my name, I don’t flinch

Deep breath, then I inch by inch

Pain talk, I make it sing

One more step, let the whole block ring

Venom in my veins

I don’t break, I change

Bath of all that pain

Still I stand the same

Venom in my veins

You can’t hold these chains

Ouchie made me mean

Now I live my name

If I went down, I came back wrong

Scarred-up smile, still standing strong

Turn that ache into a blade

Watch me walk through what you made

Venom in my veins

I don’t break, I change

Bath of all that pain

Still I stand the same

Venom in my veins

You can’t hold these chains

Ouchie made me mean

Now I live my name