This I Earned

Fiction you made up to believe

Lives on a screen but it's not reality

Actions that you didn't take

Is why you're concerned with the ones that I make

Now you've noticed your day slipping fast

Was it well spent or were you stepping back?

You counted all my blessings as you went

Leaving your mark of discontent

(This I earned)

I wasn't born with it

I bled for this

Be bound to your word

When you live by it

You prove your worth

(This I earned)

It wasn't handed to me

I did what I had to

Be bound to your word

It's not what you deserve, you get what you earn

Don't indulge in delusions to satisfy

I don't escape today with dreams gone by

Perfection of the present doesn't exist

The future's at stake, it isn't granted

For this I bled

For this I bled

My blood I shed for this

You want a future worth fighting for?

With skin in the game?

Be bound to your word

Everything is at stake

My blood

My blood I shed for this

My blood

My blood I shed for this

You think this was handed to me?

Some offering taken at birth

I've withstood every hardship

To prove myself of worth

(This I earned)

I wasn't born with it

I bled for this

Be bound to your word

When you live by it

You prove your worth

(This I earned)

It wasn't handed to me

I did what I had to

Be bound to your word

It's not what you deserve, you get what you earn

Earned in blood

A life that's well deserved

Take what's due

Once you prove your worth

(Earn it)