Hook — cold open] Put in the hard yards, ain't no other way, Put in the hard yards, grindin' every day, Put in the hard yards, till the work gets paid, Put in the hard yards — that's how legends made. [Verse 1] Wake up before the dawn while the whole world sleepin', creepin' toward a goal that ain't nobody keepin' score of, been ignorin' every reason that I could be leavin', puttin' in the work while the doubters keep believin' I'm finished, diminished, my vision get twisted but I keep it consistent, ain't a minute I'm missin', the grind is religious, my grind is ambitious, every hour invested is a witness to the difference, ain't no shortcut, ain't no gimmick, I'm committed to the distance. [Hook] Put in the hard yards, ain't no other way, Put in the hard yards, grindin' every day, Put in the hard yards, till the work gets paid, Put in the hard yards — that's how legends made. [Verse 2] They just see the surface, never seen the purpose in the hurtin', never seen the certain patterns of the person that was learnin' how to earn it, how to burn it, how to turn it, how deserve is somethin' that you build up when the world ain't ever servin', so I'm workin' while they nervous, while they circlin' and searchin' for a reason to disperse it, for a reason that it's worthless, but the value that I'm curvin' out the struggle, out the surface, out the hunger keep me surgin', till the purpose and the person and the practice start convergin'. [Hook] Put in the hard yards, ain't no other way, Put in the hard yards, grindin' every day, Put in the hard yards, till the work gets paid, Put in the hard yards — that's how legends made. [Bridge] No days off, no excuse, gotta pay my dues, every hard yard that I put in, watch me win, watch me win, every hard yard that I put in, watch me win, watch me win. [Verse 3] So I keep grindin' through the friction, keep contradiction out my system, keep the mission and the vision in a rhythm, keep it different from the victims of the system that dismissed 'em, keep it distant from permission, keep it distant from the pity that could distant me from livin', every ounce of blood I'm givin' turnin' silence into vision, turnin' distance into wisdom, turnin' business out of nothin', turnin' hard yards into somethin' — every struggle, every summit, every hundred that I run it, watch me rise up out the rubble like the sun up when it's comin'. [Hook — final] Put in the hard yards, ain't no other way, Put in the hard yards, grindin' every day, Put in the hard yards, till the work gets paid, Put in the hard yards — that's how legends made. [Outro tag] Put in the hard yards... Put in the hard yards... That's how legends made.
