TEARS OF MY ENEMIES VERSE 1 I carved my name into the side of every bad decision Built a kingdom out of broken promises and superstition Every bridge I burned still lights the road behind me Every ghost I buried learned exactly where to find me I was the villain in somebody's favorite story The punchline dressed in counterfeit glory But scars don't care who's right or wrong They just remind you where you've been too long PRE-CHORUS I hear the echoes when the room goes black Every mistake keeps calling me back CHORUS The past is prologue The first page of the war I survived I drank the poison, learned to keep myself alive Now the tears of my enemies Fall like rain on a rusted crown They prayed I'd never make it But I'm still standing here right now The tears of my enemies Can't wash away what I've becomeI turned every wound into a weapon And every ending into one more song VERSE 2 I carried guilt like a pocketknife for years Kept it sharpened with regret and fear Everybody loves a comeback story Nobody talks about the nights before it When the mirror showed a stranger's face And self-destruction felt like graceI learned survival isn't pretty It's just refusing to surrender the city PRE-CHORUS I hear the echoes when the room goes black But they're losing power every time they attack CHORUS The past is prologue The first page of the war I survived I drank the poison, learned to keep myself alive Now the tears of my enemies Fall like rain on a rusted crown They prayed I'd never make it But I'm still standing here right now The tears of my enemies Can't wash away what I've becomeI turned every wound into a weaponAnd every ending into one more song BRIDGE I don't need revenge The years handled that for meI don't need forgiveness Just the freedom to be The man they swore I'd never become The one who kept walking when everybody ran The one who learned that survivalIs the loudest thing a broken heart can say FINAL CHORUS The past is prologue But it doesn't own the ending Every scar's a map To the life I'm still defending Now the tears of my enemies Fall like rain on a rusted crownI buried every version of me That tried to drag me down The tears of my enemies Are just another river crossedI survived the fire they wished upon meAnd became something they lost OUTRO The past is prologue...Not a prison. Just proof I made it this far.
