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.

Punk / Metal