Hell-Raised (Ten Toes Down)

Verse 1

Born on a midsummer night,

On a side where nothin’ sat right.

Born in a world expectin’ a fight,

Raised on crooked views of wrong and right.

Normal never had a place to stay,

Balance broke and slipped away.

Hit this world swingin’, tears ran wild,

Cut different, just a broken child.

Life came hard, I learned where to stand,

Mama held tight with fear in her hands.

Daddy was smoke, just a ghost in a frame,

Gone too young, left scars with his name.

Then a devil stepped in where my father stood,

Fed me poison, called it good.

Mama fought hard, tried makin’ it right,

Couldn’t see the war inside my mind.

Monster got his fill, left damage behind,

Cuts so deep they still scar my mind.

Battles and wars no child should know,

Pain dug roots and refused to go.

Chorus

I’m the ash, I’m the ember, I’m the spark they fear,

Born in the fire where the strong shed tears.

Every scar tells stories, every wound runs deep,

Still ten toes down while the weak break cheap.

Verse 2

World threw punches, I weren’t ready,

For a war that broke what was left in me.

Learned real young how to take those cuts,

Swallow my scars and hide my guts.

With a crooked grin, I kept askin’ for more,

Ran with heathens, laughed through war.

Ran from that house through storm and rain,

Walked alone with my hate and pain.

No saviors came, no hand reached out,

Had to carve my path through blood and doubt.

Iron in my bones, dirt in my veins,

Took my crown in the outlaw plains.

Bridge

Shadows raised me, fire made me whole,

Pain cut deep but it hardened my soul.

Climbed from ruin, crawled through the ash,

Now my name strikes hard like thunder crash.

Outro

Born of flame, still burnin’ wild,

Hell-raised man from a broken child.

Time won’t bury what truth can’t hide,

Outlaw Dogg till the day I die.