Break the Chain by. Trez Buttah featuring MONE’

Intro (Spoken-Word)

I don't wanna write this down

I just wanna tell you how I feel right now, yeah

Life ain't promised, nah, tomorrow ain't owed to none of us

Carrying this fuckin weight on my back, chest tight

Tryna breathe, tryna untie every knot they wrapped around me

You ever wanna fly away? Feel me?

But this is for my bloodline... I gotta say it raw, gotta face my own motherfuckin truth

Chorus

My mama said break the chain, nigga

Break the chain for the world to see

My daddy said face the pain, nigga

Face the pain and set yourself free

My grandma said heal the hurt, nigga

Heal the hurt for the kids to breathe

My elders said rise above, nigga

Rise above, don't let it bury me

Post-Chorus

Break it, heal it, yeah, feel me

Break it, heal it, yeah, feel me

Verse 2

Sometimes I sit and taste that bitterness, damn, shit's still in my teeth

Remember gettin whooped with cords, left alone on dirty sheets

Calling out for love, all I heard was motherfuckin silence, ice-cold speech

I tried to cut myself out the pain, scars on my psyche where they couldn't reach

Daddy lost inside his own war, liquor stains on hands that shook me hard

Mama prayed for me but the God she loved didn't pull me out these bars

Every nigga in my fam running from a past, so fuckin marred

But I'm the one who gotta bleed and clean the wounds before they go too far, yeah

Pre-Chorus

I choose to love myself

Even when my mind gets mean

I look my shadow in the face, say

You ain't bigger than me

Chorus

My mama said break the chain, nigga

Break the chain for the world to see

My daddy said face the pain, nigga

Face the pain and set yourself free

My grandma said heal the hurt, nigga

Heal the hurt for the kids to breathe

My elders said rise above, nigga

Rise above, don't let it bury me

Post-Chorus

Break it, heal it, yeah, feel me

Break it, heal it, hey, feel me

Bridge/Outro

I want my bloodline to be healed, to be healed, to be healed

All my people to be healed, to be healed, to be healed

That's all that matters to me, shit

Heal it... break it... yeah... feel me

Soulful hums and echoes fading out

Extended Outro

Fuck, I made it out that hell, at least far enough to shout

But the scars talk in my sleep, all the shit I buried deep come leakin out

Therapist told me forgiveness just means lettin go, doesn’t mean them old ghosts get a pass though

I carry them bitches every step till I let my soul know—I’m not just what happened to me, nah, I’m the hope, the fire, the rage, the love that grew

Fuck them curses, I choose my crew, my blood, my future, yeah, breaking through

Feel me?—If I ever have a son, I swear on my own fucked-up name he’ll touch safety, not shame

If I have a daughter, she gon know warmth, not pain

Generations behind me fucked up my brain, but I broke that chain—broke it in the pouring rain

Now my people sing my name like freedom, like goddamn freedom—yeah

Soulful hums and ad-libs fading (heal it, break it, feel me, rise above...)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, let the spirit remain

(Humming and soft echoes drifting out till silence)

Outro Verse: Southern Feature

See, I come from Birmingham, pain in the red clay

Mama chase a dollar, daddy gone by the next day

Cousins locked, same story, just a new decade

Prayin’ for peace but we only got court dates

Generational curses, every lesson feel twisted

Blood on the roots, still these flowers stay gifted

Told my lil’ bro, this shit stops with us

Ain’t no more runnin’ from the monsters we trust

I put the south in my spirit, the struggle in my slang

When I say fuck that trauma, you gon’ hear it when I sang

Forgive the ones who broke me, for me, not for them

Love my scars thick as mud, I won’t hide em again, nah

Final Chorus: Duet

My mama said break the chain, nigga

Break the chain for the world to see

My granny said rise above, nigga

Rise above, let my soul be free

Forever said heal the hurt, nigga

Heal the hurt, so my kids can breathe

My people said don’t let go, nigga

Don’t let go, keep risin with me

Extended Fade

Break it, heal it, yeah, rise above

Break it, heal it, hey, rise above

(Soulful humming, both voices)

Spoken Tag: Both Voices

This for anybody holdin weight, still breathin, still tryin

You ain’t broken, just breakin the cycle—step by step

Closing Verse: Duet

So I plant my hope deep in ground where roots remember pain

Water these dreams with sweat, let ‘em rise from my veins

Told my sisters hold on, the sun gon’ set shame

We lived through the worst, now we rewrite the name

From porches where we prayed, to roads where we ran

Every bruise in my story made me part of the plan

Forgivin don’t mean forget, but I refuse to drown

I walk taller than my past, feet steady on this ground

Outro Hook

Break it, heal it, rise above, feel me

Break it, heal it, rise above, feel me

Break it, heal it, rise above (yeah)

Soulful humming fading, last echoes remain...