One Foot In The Grave

Thought the battle was done, but the war just begun

I ain't know what the devil had planned

But the climb made me sharper, the fall made me harder

The weight put some rage in my pen

I was building a kingdom on top of the rubble

But fate had a shovel again

Buried that box in the back of the closet

Ain't think I'd hear my name in a song again

But the weight pressed down 'til the cracks got loud

And the rhythm pulled me out when it crawled back in

Foot in the grave, but the dirt fell off

Every bar that I spit turned a loss to a stone

And the path I chose through the pain I've known

I lost it all, but it brought me home

Buried that box in the back of the closet

Ain't think I'd hear my name in a song again

But the weight pressed down 'til the cracks got loud

And the rhythm pulled me out when it crawled back in

Foot in the grave, but the dirt fell off

Every bar that I spit turned a loss to a stone

And the path I chose through the pain I've known

I lost it all, but it brought me home

December hit cold, she was colder than winter

Betrayal cut deep as a blade

I was breaking apart in the dark, couldn't start

Had me wishin' for death in the shade

I was praying for silence, anxiety violent

Depression had me in a cage

Then I opened that box that I locked back in '09

And the music came back from the grave

Now I'm writing these lines with the blood in my veins

And the pain is the ink in my pen

Every beat is a pulse, every rhyme is a breath

Every song is a reason again

What was meant to destroy me, deployed me, reborn me

I'm stronger than I ever been

If the curse was a blessing, the question's not "why"

It's "what will I do with it then?"

If I never lost it all, would I know this voice

When it calls from the crawlspace low

When the world tried to kill me, I carved my name

Through dust like a vow I wrote

Box seam breathing, floorboards speaking

"you ain't done", "step once more"

Left foot dirt, right foot hope

Dragged from the hole to the hallway home

Buried that box in the back of the closet

Ain't think I'd hear my name in a song again

But the weight pressed down 'til the cracks got loud

And the rhythm pulled me out when it crawled back in

Foot in the grave, but the dirt fell off

Every bar that I spit turned a loss to a stone

And the path I chose through the pain I've known

I lost it all, but it brought me home

Buried that box in the back of the closet

Ain't think I'd hear my name in a song again

But the weight pressed down 'til the cracks got loud

And the rhythm pulled me out when it crawled back in

Foot in the grave, but the dirt fell off

Every bar that I spit turned a loss to a stone

And the path I chose through the pain I've known

I lost it all, but it brought me home