Ain’t Been Easy, But It’s Ours

Verse 1
Before the towns and county lines
Before the steel and neon signs
There were trails cut through the trees
And freedom blowin’ on the breeze
Thirteen broke away from kings
With loaded guns and broken dreams
They signed their names, they took a stand
For somethin’ bigger than this land

Pre-Chorus
They knew the price, still rolled the dice
For liberty and sacrifice

Chorus
It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours
Written in stripes and stitched in stars
From every mile of blood and dirt
To every promise, every hurt
Yeah we’ve bent, but we don’t break
Through every risk this country takes
It’s a long road paved in scars
It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours

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Verse 2
Cannon smoke and brother’s cries
Civil War split hearts in two sides
Chains fell down, but not overnight
Still fightin’ shadows of that fight
Trains rolled west through open plains
Gold and grit and outlaw names
Dreamers built with calloused hands
A future no one else had planned

Pre-Chorus
Through every storm, we carried on
Holdin’ tight to right and wrong

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Chorus
It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours
Written in stripes and stitched in stars
From every mile of blood and dirt
To every promise, every hurt
Yeah we’ve bent, but we don’t break
Through every risk this country takes
It’s a long road paved in scars
It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours

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Verse 3
Black and white photos fade to gray
But their stories never fade away
Boys in boots on foreign ground
Fightin’ wars we still talk about
Normandy to Vietnam
Names engraved in quiet stone
Desert heat and midnight skies
Still we answer when freedom cries

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Bridge
We don’t always get it right
We’ve got truth we still must face
But there’s a fire in that flag
No time could ever erase
It’s in the ones who stand up strong
And the ones we lost along the way

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Breakdown (soft)
Yeah, we’re still learnin’ who we are
Still reachin’ past the scars

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Final Chorus (big)
It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours
Through the fall and through the hard
From the fields to factory lines
To the frontlines through all time
Yeah we stand, yeah we rise
With every tear and sacrifice
It’s a long road paved in scars
It ain’t been easy… but it’s ours

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Outro
From the past to where we stand
It’s more than just a piece of land
It’s every soul, it’s every scar
Yeah it ain’t been easy… but it’s ours

male, Modern country anthem with southern grit, emotional storytelling, arena drums, steel guitar, and patriotic rise