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Built
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Трек «Built» вышел в 19 июня 2026 г. г. на альбоме «{albumName}» (лейбл «Forged Records»)Forged
АльбомForged
Released19 июня 2026 г.
ЛейблForged Records
ЯзыкEnglish
BPM71
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I didn't stumble into this - I chose it
Every single piece of what I'm building - I designed it
Before the first brick landed - before the first rep
Before the first morning that it cost me - I had already stepped
Into the decision fully - no half measures - no condition
No version of this where I fold if the opposition
Gets loud enough or heavy enough or real enough to sting
I already agreed to pay the cost of everything
That's what built means - not that it was easy
Not that the road was clear - not that nothing tried to seize me
Pull me off the thing I said I was constructing
Built means I decided - and the deciding is the function
That makes everything that follows just the process
Not the question - just the cost - and I already got this
The outcome isn't hope - it's not a maybe - it's decided
Built is what you are when you committed and provided
Everything required - no negotiation - no retreat
Just the daily laying down of everything I need
To lay down to get there - and I knew that going in
Built - that's what I'm becoming - built - that's where I've been
Built - not born - not given - not handed
Built - decided - committed - commanded
Every layer laid by choice - every cost already counted
Built - this is what decided looks like - fully mounted
You want to know what building something real requires
It requires you to walk directly into fires
That you saw coming - that you knew were on the road
And chose the road anyway - and carried your own load
No waiting for conditions to be perfect or aligned
No waiting for the signal - no waiting for a sign
That now is the right moment - now is always now
The ones who build decide and figure out the how
After - not before - the decision comes first
Then the work - then the cost - then the best and the worst
Of everything the building season asks of you
And you give it - every time - because you're built to follow through
Not because it's comfortable - not because it's clear
Not because the outcome is guaranteed from here
But because you said you would - and what you say you do
That's the only thing that separates the built from the who
Almost made it - almost finished - almost got there in the end
Almost is the enemy of everything you intend
To build - so burn the almost - burn the maybe - burn the wait
Built means decided - and decided means it's straight
Built - not born - not given - not handed
Built - decided - committed - commanded
Every layer laid by choice - every cost already counted
Built - this is what decided looks like - fully mounted
I know what I'm building - I can see it in the dark
Before it exists - before it has a shape or a mark
On the world - I know what it will be when it arrives
Because I decided what it was before I started the drive
Toward it - and that vision is the compass and the fuel
The thing that makes the cost feel less like cost and more like school
Teaching me exactly what I need to know to build it right
Every obstacle a lesson - every setback shedding light
On what the next layer needs - on what the foundation lacks
I don't resent the hard parts - I incorporate the facts
They give me - integrate the information - build it in
Every scar becomes a feature - every loss becomes a win
In the architecture of the thing I'm putting up
Because I decided it would stand - and I decided to fill the cup
Of everything required - and I'm filling it right now
Built - that's what this is becoming - built - and this is how
Built - not born - not given - not handed
Built - decided - committed - commanded
Every layer laid by choice - every cost already counted
Built - this is what decided looks like - fully mounted
I decided
So it's already done
The rest is just time
Built
Written by: James Ellis
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