Cold Needle Gospel

VERSE 1

I ain’t proud of the nights when I carved up my veins, chasin fire through a needle just to quiet the pain. Bathroom floor colder than the truth in my chest, heart barely beatin but I still couldn’t rest. Every lie that I told was a prayer in reverse, every high that I chased only made it get worse. I was drownin in shadows with my back to the wall, swearin I had control when I had none at all. The mirror don’t bend, it just shows what you are, a man runnin circles around his own scars. I was beggin for silence in a world full of noise, tryin to kill off the hurt that I carried since I was a boy. But the poison I trusted kept takin it’s toll, and the fire I chased kept on burnin my soul.

HOOK

This is my cold needle gospel, my truth in the dark, where the sins that I carried tried to tear me apart. But I crawled out the grave that I dug with my hands, now I’m standin here sober, still tryin to stand. I ain’t lookin for pity, ain’t askin for praise, I’m just speakin the truth of my darkest of days. If you’re livin in shadows, I been where you stand, and I’m proof you can rise when you think that you can’t.

VERSE 2

I remember the shakes, I remember the sweat, I remember the promises I always forget. I remember the nights when my breath wouldn’t come, when the world felt too heavy and my body felt numb. I remember the guilt that would sit on my chest, like a weight made of memories I tried to suppress. But the dawn kept on comin even when I felt dead, and the voice in my chest said fight back instead. I was losin myself in a war with my mind, but the man I became wasn’t ready to die. Now the ghosts still whisper but they don’t get to steer, I ain’t runnin no more, I’m still standin right here. And the man in the mirror ain’t the one from before, he’s the one who survived what the other one wore. I been broken and battered, been lost in the rain, but I learned how to stand in the middle of pain. And the strength that I carry ain’t somethin I planned, it was forged in the fire of the life I withstand.

HOOK

This is my cold needle gospel, my truth in the dark, where the sins that I carried tried to tear me apart. But I crawled out the grave that I dug with my hands, now I’m standin here sober, still tryin to stand. I ain’t lookin for pity, ain’t askin for praise, I’m just speakin the truth of my darkest of days. If you’re livin in shadows, I been where you stand, and I’m proof you can rise when you think that you can’t.

BRIDGE

If you’re livin in shadows, I been where you stand. Ain’t no shame in the fall, just rise if you can. Every stumble you take is a step you can claim, every breath that you hold is a spark in the flame. You ain’t broken forever, you ain’t damned where you lay, you can climb out the darkness and step into day.

OUTRO

This is my cold needle gospel, my truth and my proof, that a man can be shattered and still find his truth. I ain’t runnin from nothin, ain’t hidin again, I’m alive and I’m standin, and that’s where I begin…