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Down the Road

V5.5

[Intro - Male Spoken | Atmospheric Piano | Ambient Pads | No Drums] Yeah... How many times you gotta start over? How many dreams get put on hold? This one's for everybody... Building momentum with the brakes half pulled. Delayed... Not defeated. [Beat Drop] [Male Rap Verse] Everybody says, "Keep chasing your dream." Nobody talks about bills in between. Nobody mentions the nights that you stare At a laptop too tired to care. Got plans in a notebook... Dust on the pages. Watching my goals get locked in cages. Everybody posts highlights... I'm still filming the struggle. Building my future with hands full of rubble. Spinning tires, chasing traction. Fuel's running low... The road keeps stretching. Rearview full of what-ifs... Windshield full of someday. I ain't lazy... I'm overloaded. Trying to keep this whole life From exploding. [Pre-Chorus - Male Melodic Rap] Tell me... How you move When your feet feel chained? How you keep believing... When the finish line keeps changing? [Female Pop Chorus] Keep going... It ain't over. Every mile... Brings you closer. Head held high... Heart on fire. Dark roads... Still lead to light. Hold your ground... Don't let go. The best is still... Down the road. [Male Rap Verse] Spent so long staring at the pavement... I forgot to look up. Maybe every setback... Was setting something up. Started wondering if the dream was worth the price. When survival kept outbidding every sacrifice. Clocking in just to clock out. Watching daylight disappear. Dreams don't die all at once... They fade a little every year. Watched my weekends turn to catch-up. Watched my passions gather dust. Told myself, "When life slows down..." Knowing life never does. Turns out chasing dreams ain't easy... Maybe that's why they're dreams. If everybody made it there... They wouldn't mean a thing. [Bridge - Male Rap | Piano & Ambient Pads] Maybe the road was never there... To see how fast I'd run. Maybe it kept winding on... To see who I'd become. Every mile was building something... I was too close to see. Turns out the dream I was chasing... Was chasing a better me. [Bridge - Female Spoken Word | Soft Whisper | Piano Only] (Pause) If you're tired... Rest. Don't quit. If you're hurting... Heal. Don't quit. If you're doubting... Breathe. Keep going. [Final Female Pop Chorus | Biggest Chorus | Choir | Layered Harmonies] Keep going... It ain't over. Every mile... Brings you closer. Head held high... Heart on fire. Dark roads... Still lead to light. Hold your ground... Don't let go. The best is still... Down the road. (Repeat) Keep going... It ain't over. Every mile... Brings you closer. Head held high... Heart on fire. Dark roads... Still lead to light. Hold your ground... Don't let go. The best is still... Down the road. [Outro - Male Spoken | Piano Only] See you... Down the road.