Threw Me Down

VERSE 1 They said stay quiet, stay in your place, Stay at the bottom, don’t look up, don’t say. Gold in the sky, rust in my hands, Born in the wrong part of their perfect plan. I learned survival from broken things, From bent-up rules and cracked-up dreams. They call it trash, I call it proof That I’m still breathing under the boot. ⸻ PRE-CHORUS Every lie they fed me Started tasting thin, If this world’s built on value— Then tell me who decides it? ⸻ CHORUS You threw me down Like I wouldn’t stand again. Buried my name Like it wouldn’t echo in the end. I was nothing to you, Just another loss you wrote off— But I’m still here And I’m done staying soft. ⸻ VERSE 2 They don’t see faces, they see worth, Tag on your head, price on your hurt. If you fall once, you fall for life, No appeal, no second try. Blood on the pavement, not from guilt, From a system that eats what it built. You made a pit and called it law— I learned how to climb your walls. ⸻ PRE-CHORUS 2 You don’t get to tell me What I’m worth now, I survived your sentence— I don’t answer to you. ⸻ CHORUS (repeat, stronger) You threw me down Like I wouldn’t stand again. Buried my name Like it wouldn’t echo in the end. I was nothing to you, Just another loss you wrote off— But I’m still here And I’m done staying soft. ⸻ BRIDGE (quiet → rising) If this world only listens to power, Then hear me now. I was built from the scraps you left behind— And I won’t stay down. ⸻ FINAL CHORUS (last hit) You threw me down— Now look who’s standing. Still breathing through the smoke and damage. You don’t decide Who’s lost or found— You threw me down… But I rose from the ground. ⸻ OUTRO Yeah… I rose.