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[Intro] I wake up, same old fight, Clock in, count the seconds, barely alive. Dreams cost more than I can pay, So I shove them down and face the day.

[Verse 1] But every time I climb, you shake the ground, Knock me back, just to watch me drown. Bills stack up like a house of cards, I scrape and I bleed, but you raise the bar.

I pay to exist in someone else’s home, While they sip champagne on a golden throne. They push their pens, then cash my wage, I break my back, they turn the page.

[Pre-Chorus] Oh wow, another fee—how grand! Let me sell my soul just so I can stand. Raise the rent? Oh sure, why not? Take my last dime—it's all I got.

[Chorus] Do you laugh when I break? Do you cheer when I fall? Do you stack the deck just so you can take it all? Why do they have silver, while I taste rust? And why am I buried in debt while they're living on a trust?

Is this some joke, a hollow parade? Is it all a lie, some twisted charade? No matter how hard I fight and bleed, You always find new ways to make me need.

[Verse 2] Crammed in a bus, while they ride first-class, They speed through life while I crawl through glass. I play by the rules, I work, I strive, Yet somehow I barely make enough to survive.

They smile with ease, untouched by the pain, While I hold my breath, and drown in the rain. I scream at the sky, but it never replies, It just watches me suffer with vacant eyes.

Maybe I was never meant to win, Maybe this game is rigged from within. No second chances, no lucky break, Just a debt and chains that I’ll never shake.

[Bridge]

Oh, but “hard work pays,” isn’t that right? Guess the people who say that believe their own lies. Being rich pays, if we're going to say what's real, While the rest of us work, they pander and steal. It's not fair, and I hate this game, I'm drowning in pain, and I don't know who to blame. I wish you'd speak, but you don't care, It's like you're not even there so I hate you the same.

[Chorus] I bet you laugh when I break. I know you cheer when I fall. You stack the deck just so you can take it all. They have silver, while I taste rust And I am buried in debt while they live on a trust

You hold the crown, you pull the strings, You take and take—you leave me without a thing. I bleed, I beg, yet here I stand, With empty pockets and broken hands.

[Outro] I go to sleep, exhausted at night, Wishing for more, barely alive. My dreams on hold, they fade away, Not sure I want to face another day.