I talk to mirrors more than people these days
Reflection got questions I got nothing to say
Life gave me lemons I set fire to the trees
Let the smoke fill the air now I'm breathing disease
Mind like a maze and the maps in flames
Still racing through hell just to chase a name
Grew up in rooms where the dreams decay
Had to write my future in a razor blade
Got no patience for fake affirmations
While I'm drowning doubt and self-conversation
My pain got rhythm,
my tears got rhyme If God's on time,
why's he always behind?
I find my shadow in the cold light
Talk to those when the world's quiet
No help, just self, no light
Still I rise,
still I rise,
still I rise,
still I rise
Sleep
is a myth and peace is a riddle Heart
playing symphonies right in the middle
Of chaos and trauma,
my mama has stress Popping pills just to deal with the debt she
regrets Teachers said I end up broke and confused
But I broke every rule that they told me to use Now I'm scribbling
lines like I'm fighting the truth Every bar's a blade in the vocal booth
I ain't healed,
I'm haunted I ain't safe,
I'm wanted
By demons I fed in my room in the dark Now they
dress like friends and they talk real smart
I find my shadow in the cold light
Talk to those when the world's quiet
No help,
just self,
no light Still I rise,
still I rise,
still I rise,
still I rise
I ain't here for the fame,
I ain't here for the likes I'm here for
the pain and the fear and the nights
Where I scribbled every scar on a pad with spite
Just to prove to myself I still hold that fight
I'm the echo of the kid you ignored in class
Now my voice hit harder than your overpriced gas
I spit for the lonely,
the weird,
the broke For the kid with a dream and a half-lit hope
So if you hear this
and feel like breaking
Just know your pulse is proof,
you're still awakening
I talked to mirrors
and now they talk back
Told me you're broken, kid,
but that's how legends act
I find my shadow in the cold light
Talk to those when the world's quiet
No help, just self, no light
Still I rise,
still I rise,
still I rise,
still I rise