Relentless

Heavy boots on the gravel floor

Shadows dancing by the furnace door

I've been down in the valley low

Where the bitter winds of failure blow

There's a tally on the wall for every time I fell

Each scar is a story that I'm forced to tell

They thought that the silence meant I'd lost the fight

But I was just waiting for the dead of night

To strike the match and to fan the flame

To take the weight and to own the shame

If you want the diamond then you need the crush

If you want the gold then you brave the brush

I am the hammer and the heated steel

I don't care how the burning feels

Knock me down but I'm rising higher

Forged in the heart of the midnight fire

Relentless soul with a steady hand

Building a kingdom on shifting sand

I won't break and I won't bend

I'm going to make it to the bitter end

There's a taste of iron in the back of my throat

While the skeptics gather on their sinking boat

You can pour the water on my glowing coal

But you'll never touch the rhythm of my weary soul

Every drop of sweat is a drop of pride

Nowhere left for the fear to hide

I took the brickbats and I built a wall

I took the gravity and learned to crawl

Until I stood up on my own two feet

Making my victory taste so sweet

I am the hammer and the heated steel

I don't care how the burning feels

Knock me down but I'm rising higher

Forged in the heart of the midnight fire

Relentless soul with a steady hand

Building a kingdom on shifting sand

I won't break and I won't bend

I'm going to make it to the bitter end

Pain is the fuel for the engine room

Light is the flower that breaks the gloom

I don't need a savior, I don't need a sign

I just need the grit that's already mine

Watch me breathe through the thickest smoke

I'm the oak tree that never broke

I am the hammer and the heated steel