Raised On Empty

(Hook)
I was raised on empty, fightin’ off the shame,
Gas tank light and a prayer to my name.
Swore I’d find heaven with a pocket full of pain,
Now I walk like a sinner but I sing like I’m saved.
(Verse 1)
Daddy left early, mama worked nights,
Learned how to hustle under liquor store lights.
My prayers hit the ceiling, bounced back twice,
So I put faith in the pen, not the preacher’s advice.
(Gates flow kicks in)
I done bled for my brothers, I done cried through the cage,
Took loss after loss but I never lost rage.
When the storm rolled in, I just tightened my fade,
Let the thunder teach rhythm to the music I made.
(Hook)
I was raised on empty, fightin’ off the shame,
Gas tank light and a prayer to my name.
Swore I’d find heaven with a pocket full of pain,
Now I walk like a sinner but I sing like I’m saved.
(Verse 2)
That girl said I’d never be more than my past,
But here I am singin’ with a bottle and a flash.
Tears in the ink when I sign that cast,
Of a dream that broke bones but it still outlasts.
I wrote songs in the dark when the world went silent,
Turned shame into gold when the pain got violent.
Now I pull up with ghosts in the backseat smilin’,
‘Cause the boy they left behind became a lion.
(Bridge)
I still got wounds I ain’t dressed yet,
Still got sins I ain’t confessed yet.
But if you listen close to that sunset,
You’ll hear a broken man that ain’t dead yet.
(Final Hook)
I was raised on empty, fightin’ off the shame,
Gas tank light and a prayer to my name.
Swore I’d find heaven with a pocket full of pain,
Now I walk like a sinner but I sing like I’m saved…
Now I walk like a sinner… but I sing like I’m saved.

Soul-Country Trap Anthem, Defiant, gritty, deeply emotional, Slide guitar, 808s, choir harmonies, trap hats, steel, male