[Verse 1]
Latchkey kid with a torn-up sleeve
I learned the truth from a TV bleed
Cold toast, hard floors, no one home
Made my own rules, made my own laws
Payphone prayers in a parking lot
Dead-end dreams and a one-way shot
Now your bright machine says “stay calm”
I taste blood when you say “harmful”
[Pre-Chorus]
We don’t kneel
We don’t fold
Black coat heart
Sidewalk soul
You can scan my face
You can map my scars
But I was built
In the broken parts
[Chorus]
Generation X, rise up
Generation X, rising up
We fight back hard
We don’t play nice
Generation X, rise up
Generation X, rising up
Cold blood blow
In a dead-end fight
[Verse 2]
Now the kids all talk in code
While the mirror learns my old roads
Silver under the busted sky
I hear the glitch in a lullaby
You wear a crown of borrowed smoke
I wear my doubt like a battle coat
If you sell me peace in a glass-pane grin
I’ll drag my ghost right back in
[Pre-Chorus]
We don’t kneel
We don’t fold
Black coat heart
Sidewalk soul
You can scan my face
You can map my scars
But I was built
In the broken parts
[Chorus]
Generation X, rise up
Generation X, rising up
We fight back hard
We don’t play nice
Generation X, rise up
Generation X, rising up
Cold blooded blow
In a dead-end fight
[Bridge]
[Half-time]
Call me obsolete
I call it steel
Call me old blood
I call it real
[Breakdown]
Hear that crack?
That’s my yes
Hear that crack?
That’s my mess
[Final Chorus]
Generation X, rise up
Generation X, rising up
We fight back hard
We wont play nice
Generation X, rise up
Generation X, rising up
Black coat sons
With the iron will
Generation X, rise up
Generation X, rising up
Cold blood blow
In a dead-end fight
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