From the recording The Cardinal Passage
Lyrics
Hook:
Working longer nights so I ain't dreaming of applause
Vision in the dirt I had to bleed to see the cause
Pressure made a diamond now it's gleaming thru the scars
Tryna break the cycles not just even out the odds
Voices in my head that still debate me on my flaws
Rose up from the dirt after they prayed that I would fall
I watched em walk away and that's when hopelessness evolved
Mad I'm tryna break the cycle not just even out the odds
Midnight has been molding me marinated in tension
Past due on the rent again pray land lord give extension
Heart heavy like sentences chipped away from apprehension
Fiending for the moment chains break and I see ascension
While the world fed allusions dressed in gold and theatrics
I been speaking from my scars and maneuvering thru the static
Remember all the nights I heard my hunger screaming in that attic
Had to smile thru the war now I laugh with a growl of havoc
Court dates on Tuesdays funerals on the weekends
Became numb to love felt foreign flinching when they reaching
Masked up like a Carrey scene ironic how they singing
Trust burned like kerosene the treachery is reeking
Paced the void with a prayer and a blade stuck in my chest
Write my truths in silence where the shame would never rest
If they only knew the price of what we claiming as success
Then they'd cry for they martyrs who still march despite the stress
Hook x2
Working longer nights so I ain't dreaming of applause
Vision in the dirt I had to bleed to see the cause
Pressure made a diamond now it's gleaming thru the scars
Tryna break the cycles not just even out the odds
Voices in my head that still debate me on my flaws
Rose up from the dirt after they prayed that I would fall
I watched em walk away and that's when hopelessness evolved
Mad I'm tryna break the cycle not just even out the odds