Running The Gauntlet

Intro

Verse 1

Wake to the sound of the starting gun

Feet hit the floor and the damage is done

Rent comes due and the engine dies

Another bad day with a better disguise

Keep your head down, keep making the grade

Nobody asks what the effort has paid

They move the line as you reach for the end

Then make you run it again

Pre-Chorus

No room to stumble

No time to stall

A thousand ways under

One way through it all

Chorus

RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

Day after day

One wrong move

And they take it away

RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

Nowhere to hide

One slip up

And you're buried alive

Instrumental

Verse 2

Years on the clock for a place in the queue

One bad call and they're finished with you

Smile for the camera, swallow the strain

Show up tomorrow and do it again

Nobody sees when your hands start to shake

Everybody counts every fucking mistake

You carried the weight till it fractured your back

Now you're blamed for the crack

Pre-Chorus

No room to stumble

No time to stall

A thousand ways under

One way through it all

Chorus

RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

Day after day

One wrong move

And they take it away

RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

Nowhere to hide

One slip up

And you're buried alive

Breakdown

ONE SLIP

That's all they need

ONE SLIP

To watch you bleed

Build your life

Spend your years

One mistake

It disappears

I won't give you

What you're waiting for

I'm still moving

Give me more

Instrumental

Chorus

RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

Day after day

One wrong move

And they take it away

RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

Nowhere to hide

One slip up

And you're buried alive

Outro

No finish line

No final bell

Just one more day

To run through hell