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Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Kitchen chair at midnight
One bare bulb
Humming low
Old bills on the table
Ashtray overflowed
Cold steel on my front teeth
Shaking hands
Held tight
Thinking ’bout the ways I lost
Every single fight
[Chorus]
But I stopped
Before the hammer falls
Heard a small voice hiding in these walls
Saying
"Boy
You ain’t done
You ain’t done at all"
So I dropped that weight
Before the hammer falls
[Verse 2]
Saw my mama’s Sunday dress
Stitched from scrappy cloth
Heard my daddy’s worn-out laugh
Through that bitter fog
All the names that ever loved me
Came in like a flood
Couldn’t bear to stain their memory
With my own blood
[Chorus]
So I stopped
Before the hammer falls
Heard a small voice hiding in these walls
Saying
"Boy
You ain’t done
You ain’t done at all"
So I let that hurt go
Before the hammer falls
[Bridge]
I was aiming at the ending (oh Lord)
I was missing all the starts
There’s a thousand tiny mornings
Waiting on this busted heart
[Chorus]
So I sing
Before the hammer falls
Every cracked note climbing up these walls
Saying
"Boy
You’re still here
You can learn to crawl"
Yeah
I found myself
Before the hammer falls
I’m still here
’Cause the hammer never fell
Details
GeneratedMar 5, 2026
Duration3:38
LanguageEnglish
Style
1950s soul-blues shuffle, upright bass walking with brushed drums, tremolo guitar answering a gritty male vocal. Organ swells in the chorus, brief horn stabs on turnarounds. Starts intimate and raw, then opens into a big, churchy call-and-response hook with stacked backing vocals and a late-song key lift for catharsis., male vocals, low, strong, blues, sad
Credits
Prompt bySweetViper181
ModelAria v5
Prompt
A sad but upbeat 1950s souls blues with strong male voice about being at the low with the gun in your mouth but finding yourself before you pull the trigger
