The Mirror and the Grime

Intro

Yeah

Check

Straight from the gut

Real heavy

Verse 1

Concrete

Cold feet

Pockets full of crumpled receipts

I watch the heavy rain wash the grime off the street

Moving

Shaking

Living on the edge of the breaking

My heart is taking

What the world is faking

Dirty money in a clean drawer

Life is just a revolving door

I wanted less

I got more

Sweat on my neck

Looking for the next check

Checking the deck

Saving the wreck

From the bottom of the deep end

Praying for a real friend

Watching how the curves bend

Chorus

High stakes and the low life

Cutting through the dark like a sharp knife

Sharp knife

Sharp knife

High stakes and the low life

Fighting every day just to survive

Survive

Survive

Verse 2

Gold chains

No brains

Counting all the losses and the gains

Trying to ignore the heavy mental stains

Ice cold

Half told

Selling everything I ever hold

I never did exactly what I was told

Same street

Same heat

Lying through my teeth to the elite

I make the cycle complete

Keep it moving

Keep it grooving

Keep it improving

Lost my mind in the back of the car

Wondering how we ever got this far

Looking at a fading star

Black ink

Deep sink

Give me just a second let me think

Chorus

High stakes and the low life

Cutting through the dark like a sharp knife

Sharp knife

Sharp knife

High stakes and the low life

Fighting every day just to survive

Survive

Survive

Bridge

The struggle is a mountain

The struggle is a river

The struggle is a mirror

I see it

I feel it

I breathe it

No turning back now

No looking back now

No way back now

Chorus

High stakes and the low life

Cutting through the dark like a sharp knife

Sharp knife

Sharp knife

High stakes and the low life

Fighting every day just to survive

Survive

Survive

Outro

Keep it moving

Keep it real

Steel

One time

Yeah

Out

(Survive)

(Survive)