Street Serenade of Steel and Stones

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Woke up cold sweatin’, iron grippin’, devil lurkin’ (grip)
Phone buzzin’, bad news — another soul close curtains (gone)
Used to split crumbs, same dreams, same burden (share)
Now it’s chalk lines, sirens, black hearses workin’ (death)

Mama said, “Trust’ll rob you before the streets do” (facts)
Had to bleed out lessons that the fake ones teach you (snakes)
Seen a brother turn snake, fat pockets, sweet tooth (rats)
Smile in your face while they load up deceit too (grim)

Used to sleep in the whip, no heat, just frostbite (cold)
Rolled blunt after blunt just to float through the night (clouds)
Same hands I fed went and fed me to the vice (betrayal)
Now it’s eyes in the rearview, heart cold as ice (frozen)

[Chorus]
Real ones rare, had to carve my own lane (carve)
Built from the scars, made a kingdom from pain (king)
Put my soul in the storm, now I dance in the rain (dance)
Trust no mask, I move bold through the flames (flames)

Real ones rare, had to scorch what I loved (scorch)
Had to burn old ties, let ‘em drown in the blood (blood)
Mind sharp like a blade, heart tough like a stud (steel)
If you risin’ from the dirt, then you was born to be judged (stand)

[Verse 2]
Lost my brother to the streets, lost my lover to the bottle (damn)
Lost myself to the weight, tryin’ full-throttle (crash)
Wrote sins in blood, tossed ‘em straight in the squall (storm)
Hoping God find ‘em floatin’ like a ghost ship call (lost)

Built walls like a prison, steel bars in my chest (steel)
Be real, they knife you — be fake, they throw a vest (bet)
I was searchin’ for a soul, they was poppin’ for a check (pills)
I was reachin’ out bridges, they was settin’ up wrecks (wrecks)

I ain’t bitter, just built different — ice in my stare (cold)
Ain’t no love in a grin when there’s poison in the air (nah)
Packed light on trust, heavy on despair
Had to pray with a pistol and a heart full of prayers (click)

[Chorus]
Real ones rare, had to carve my own lane (carve)
Built from the scars, made a kingdom from pain (king)
Put my soul in the storm, now I dance in the rain (dance)
Trust no mask, I move bold through the flames (flames)

Real ones rare, had to scorch what I loved (scorch)
Had to burn old ties, let ‘em drown in the blood (blood)
Mind sharp like a blade, heart tough like a stud (steel)
If you risin’ from the dirt, then you was born to be judged (stand)