Rough It Out

(Verse 1)

Cracked sidewalks are your kingdom now

Cardboard crown, head held proud

Cold steel benches bite your spine

Forgotten lives in the land of the blind

Preacher screams about the promised land

While you warm your hands on a garbage can

News plays rich men’s petty sins

You just pray your tarp holds in the wind

(Chorus)

Rough it out—boots worn thin

The war inside, the battle skin

Built from ash, made to shout

No one saves you—you rough it out

(Verse 2)

Welfare lines snake ‘round hope

Red tape strangles like a rope

Cries echo down the underpass

Where dreams burn slow and mercy won’t last

Hands are cracked, pride is steel

They’ll never know how that hunger feels

Hollow eyes but a soul that fights

Burning like a barrel fire in the night

(Chorus)

Rough it out—bleed then grin

Digging through a world of sin

Raise your voice, spit it loud

No one saves you—you rough it out

(Bridge – Screamed)

We are not the shame you sweep!

Not the weight beneath your feet!

Hearts still beat beneath the rust!

And every scream becomes our trust!

(Breakdown)

Invisible? Then hear this roar—

We’re not ghosts, we are the war

(Final Chorus)

Rough it out—till lungs give in

Tattooed pain beneath the skin

We won’t kneel, we won’t bow

We survive—we rough it out

Yeah, we survive—we rough it out.