[Intro]
(driving 808s, strings building fast)
[Verse 1]
Up before the sun hits the window every morning
Clock says early but my mind’s already warning
Me that there’s work to do before the world wakes up
Before the family stirs before I fill the cup
Laptop open kitchen quiet everybody sleeping
Every brand I’m building every promise I’m keeping
Day job pays the bills but it ain’t where I’m going
Late nights are the hours where the real work is growing
Been doing this so long I don’t remember what stopping feels like
Don’t remember what a night off looks like
Don’t want one
[Hook]
They don’t see the hours
They don’t see the screen
They don’t see me up at midnight
Building out the dream
They see the day job
They don’t see the rest
I’d rather die than quit chasing
That’s it that’s the test
[Verse 2]
Coach the kids after work then it’s dirtbike on the track
Come home covered in it and I never look back
Family goes to bed and I go back to the grind
Building something bigger than what I left behind
Multiple brands multiple visions multiple lanes
Running it all quiet while the rest of the world complains
Midwest Native, Cowboys, everything I touch
Putting in the hours cause I can’t put in enough
This ain’t a hobby this is everything I have
This is every version of myself I want to have back
[Bridge]
(stripped back — piano only)
The vision is a farm
Dirtbike tracks across the land
AI running every business
From the work of my own hands
Family doing everything they love
Right outside the front door
That’s the thing I’m building toward
At midnight on the floor
[Chorus]
I’d rather die than quit chasing
I’d rather burn out than stop
I’d rather give everything I have
Than stand still and watch
Every early morning
Every late night building this
I’m not stopping till the vision
Looks exactly like it is
In my head
Every single night before I sleep
[Verse 3]
Nobody’s coming to hand me what I want
So I get up every morning like I’m already on the hunt
Day job is the fuel and the dream is the fire
Every hour in between is just climbing higher
The farm in Cameron with the tracks across the fields
My kids riding every day that’s the thing that’s real
AI business running brands while I’m standing in the sun
That’s the finish line I’m chasing till it’s done
That’s what all of this is for
Every late night every early morning every sore
[Final Bridge]
(strings swell)
They ask me how I do it all
I just tell them I don’t stop
They ask me when I rest
I say when I reach the top
But the truth is there is no top
Just the next thing to build
Just the next version of the vision
Just the next field
[Outro]
(drums driving, then drop to piano)
I’d rather die than quit chasing
I’d rather die than quit chasing
That’s not a saying
That’s just how I’m made
Up before the sun
Last one in the dark
Building something real
Right from the start
