[Intro]
(Go)
Circle up
Circle up
Hands up
Hands up
[Verse 1]
Born in your shadow
Teeth like a chain
You stamped your name
Right into my veins
Every slammed door
Every cracked plate
You said I’d be you
Just add rage
Add hate
You wrote the rules
Right across my skin
"This is the blood
You’re drowning in"
I wore your anger
Like rusted armor
Thick as smoke
Tight like a collar
[Chorus]
This is my father’s curse
Running through my nerves
I feel it burn
Burn
Burn
But I won’t be yours
I’m tearing out your words
Watch how I twist this hurt
(I’m breaking)
My father’s curse
[Verse 2]
Same sharp jaw
Same dead stare
I see your ghost
Any time I glare
I slam my fist
Through the drywall past me
Terrified I’m
Everything you asked me
You said “boy
You’re mine”
Like a brand on my back
But I’m cutting that rope
Till it snaps
Till it cracks
I’ll bleed my own way
On my own terms
Turn your poison
Into fuel that burns
[Chorus]
This is my father’s curse
Running through my nerves
I feel it burn
Burn
Burn
But I won’t be yours
I’m tearing out your words
Watch how I twist this hurt
(I’m breaking)
My father’s curse
[Bridge]
[Drums drop into stomp tempo
Guitars palm-muted
Crowd clap]
HEY
I am not your echo
SAY
I am not your echo
HEY
I am not your echo
SAY
I am not—(not)
[Breakdown]
Open up the pit right now
Open up the pit right now
Fists up
Teeth out
Let that
Hate out
I am not your
I am not your
I am not your curse
(Go)
[Chorus]
This is my father’s curse
Running through my nerves
I feel it burn
Burn
Burn
But I won’t be yours
I’m tearing out your words
Watch how I twist this hurt
(I’m breaking)
My father’s curse
[Outro]
Circle up
Circle up
Hands up
Hands up
This ends
With us