Push Back

(rap, Alt-pop / hip-hop war anthem with male vocals; low, ominous verses over cinematic toms, distant choirs, and distorted down-tuned guitars. Choruses explode with gang shouts, stacked octave vocals, and sub drops that suck the air out. Tension builds from heartbeat-like kicks and sparse drones into a massive final hook with extra chants and rising guitar feedback., pop, male vocals, deep, hip-hop)

Pressure in my lungs

Teeth locked tight

World pressing in

But I don’t break tonight

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Weight on my chest, I can’t breathe straight

Every thought bends till it feels fake

Hands on my spine, try to pull me low

But there’s something in me that won’t let go

Cracks in the glass where I see my face

Every version trying to take my place

If I let it win, I erase myself

So I dig my heels, I don’t ask for help

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Feel it closing in, yeah it wants me small

Wants me quiet, wants me to dissolve

But I hear something under the noise—

A voice that says don’t you fall

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I push back

When the dark tries to swallow me whole

I push back

When I’m losing control

Every inch that I take, yeah, I take it in pain

But I won’t let it turn me to nothing again

I push back

(I push back, I push back, I push back)

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Cold in my veins but it keeps me awake

Every step feels like something might break

But I’m learning the shape of the pressure now

Turn the weight into something I can allow

I’ve been bent, I’ve been stretched too thin

Felt the edge of the drop I was standing in

But there’s fire buried under the fear

Every time that it hits, it reappears

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Feel it tightening around my throat (hey)

Every doubt like a heavy rope

But I cut it loose just enough to breathe—

Just enough not to choke

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I push back

When the dark tries to swallow me whole

I push back

When I’m losing control

Every inch that I take, yeah, I take it in pain

But I won’t let it turn me to nothing again

I push back

(I push back, I push back, I push back)

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Not gone

Not done

Not breaking

Not numb

If I’m shaking, I’m still alive

If I’m bleeding, I still survive

If it pulls me down, I pull against—

I don’t fold, I resist

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I push back

When the dark tries to swallow me whole

I push back

Now I’m taking control

Every scar, every mark, every piece of the strain

Turns into something I carry like flame

I push back

(I push back, I push back, I push back)