STEEL IN MY VEINS

(Batiste plays a bold rising piano line.)

Yeah…

I been burned, bruised, bent, beaten—

But never broken.

There’s steel in me now.

I feel it.

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Everything I lived through hit vein-deep,

Tried to cut my soul, tried to steal my sleep.

But every scar I earned got a shine on it,

Every tear I dropped got a line on it.

March took her, April took breath,

July came close with a shadow of death.

November hit too with the job gone cold,

But my backbone stayed and my faith got bold.

Pressure on pressure but courage grew,

Stronger than the storms I was walking through.

Didn’t know what God built till life got rough,

Turns out my soul made of tougher stuff.

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I got steel in my veins,

Strength in my blood,

Hope in my bones,

Faith in the flood.

You can test me with fire,

But flames just reveal—

I ain’t breaking, I’m steel.

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Fear tried creeping back like a thief at night,

But I locked that door and stood upright.

See, grief don’t vanish, it grows your frame,

It shapes your heart, it fuels your flame.

What I lost turned into what I carry,

Pain ain’t easy but purpose ain’t scary.

My son in my arms, that future I hold—

That’s why I rise, that’s why I’m bold.

God took my heart, then gave it back tougher,

Made me a father, a fighter, a sufferer who recovers.

So when trials come knocking like they want my soul—

I stand up tall like a bell made of gold.

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Steel in my veins,

Fire in my breath,

Strength in my steps—

I rise from the depths.

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(Wayne: “Yeah… I feel the metal settling in…”)

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I got steel in my veins,

Heat in my stride,

God in my wounds,

Truth on my side.

You can melt me with fire,

But I still reveal—

I’m refined, I’m aligned,

I’m steel.

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Tried to bend me—

but bending ain’t breaking.

Tried to drown me—

but breath came back shaking.

I’m not the man I was…

I’m the man forged from what I faced.

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Turn ash to vision,

Turn pain to mission,

Turn loss to living,

Turn wounds to wisdom.

I ain’t perfect but I’m built to heal,

My storm revealed what God made real.

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I got steel in my veins,

Not fear, not shame.

Tried to break me—

I rose in flame.

Fire shaped me,

God sealed the deal—

Now the world gonna know:

I’m steel.

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Steel in my veins…

fire on my breath…

and purpose in my chest.

I’m still here.

Stronger.