Break The -- Whole Place

Intro

Yeah

Uh

They told me wait my turn

(Wait your turn)

Chorus

I been knockin' at the gate with a violin case

One hand on the bow and one hand on the base

I been knockin' at the gate with a violin case

They don't hear me knockin' till I break the whole place

Verse 1

Mama bought me lessons but the lessons never stuck

Fingers on the fretboard learnin' how to rearrange luck

Cut my teeth on concrete, scraped my knuckles on the rust

Now I'm sawin' through the strings just to show 'em what is what

Same kid with the same face, different level of the game

They was talkin' down a storm now they shelterin' from rain

Pre-Chorus

And I don't owe nobody nothin'

Not the time, not the reason, not the bluffin'

Got a symphony of static where my heart used to sit

Every bridge I ever burned? I'm the one who lit it

Chorus

I been knockin' at the gate with a violin case

One hand on the bow and one hand on the base

I been knockin' at the gate with a violin case

They don't hear me knockin' till I break the whole place

Drop

Break it

Break it

Break it down

Break it

Verse 2

Eighteenth floor balcony, city lookin' small

Practiced the same scale until my fingers started to crawl

Now I play a different tempo, metronome inside my chest

Label tried to sign my soul, I told 'em keep the check

This is not a come-up story, this is not a humble plea

This is four strings pulled tight enough to cut a century

Pre-Chorus

And I don't owe nobody nothin'

Not the time, not the reason, not the bluffin'

Got a symphony of static where my heart used to sit

Every bridge I ever burned? I'm the one who lit it

Chorus

I been knockin' at the gate with a violin case

One hand on the bow and one hand on the base

I been knockin' at the gate with a violin case

They don't hear me knockin' till I break the whole place

Bridge

(Staccato scratches)

(Arco)

(Col legno)

Outro

Yeah

Knock knock

Let me in