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The Cut

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Hip-Hop/Rap

The Cut was released on March 9, 2026 by Forged Records as a part of the album Fireproof

Song Details

Release DateMarch 9, 2026

LabelForged Records

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM89

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

FP

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

James R Ellis

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

FP

Producer

Lyrics

THE CUT

Empty tank but I'm still moving, still crawling, still grinding

Body says quit, mind says shut up — guess who I'm siding

with? The version of me that chose this pain, designing

Every ounce of suffering into something worth finding

I'm running on nothing — fumes don't even cover it

My body's a ghost town and my appetite's hovering

Over everything I can't touch, can't taste, can't stomach it

But the goal's on the other side of everything I'm smothering

This ain't glamorous — this is ugly discipline

This is choosing the suffering when you could choose the comfortable

This is everyone around you eating, living normal

While you're measuring, starving, breaking down but standing vertical

They don't see the mornings where you can't get up

They don't see the hunger eating you from the gut

They just see the result and call you lucky

Nah — this is the cut

This is the cut — no way out

This is the cut — this is what it's about

This is the cut — where the weak fall off

And the ones who stay? We never stop

Weeks in and my patience is a memory

Everything irritates, everyone's an enemy

My reflection in the mirror is the only thing that's helping me

Remember why you started — that's the only therapy left in me

I don't want your sympathy, I chose this voluntarily

I signed up for the torture, that's the extraordinary

Part that separates the pretenders from the legendary

You want the physique? Then pay the tax — it's involuntary

Sleep deprived, calorie denied, running on conviction

Every meal's a math equation, every bite's a decision

This is sacrifice with surgical precision

And I'll cut 'til there's nothing left except the vision

They don't see the mornings where you can't get up

They don't see the hunger eating you from the gut

They just see the result and call you lucky

Nah — this is the cut

This is the cut — no way out

This is the cut — this is what it's about

This is the cut — where the weak fall off

And the ones who stay? We never stop

There's a point where your body stops cooperating

Where the hunger isn't hunger anymore — it's just silence

Where you forget what full feels like

And that's where you find out what you're actually made of

Not in the first week when it's easy

Not when you're motivated

But right here — in the dark — when there's nothing left

And you still don't quit

I'm depleted, not defeated — there's a difference, learn it

I'm diminished, not finished — every calorie's been earned, kid

The tank's on empty but the engine's still burning

'Cause discipline don't need fuel — it just needs purpose

You quit when it got hard — I quit quitting

You took the easy road — I took the one that's crippling

And I'd do it again tomorrow, same commitment

'Cause the version on the other side is worth every minute of it

So let the hunger come — I'll eat the pain instead

Let the fatigue come — I'll sleep when I am dead

Let the doubt come — I already know what's ahead

The stage, the lights, and proof that everything I bled was worth it

They don't see the mornings where you can't get up

They don't see the hunger eating you from the gut

They just see the result and call you lucky

Nah — this is the cut

This is the cut — no way out

This is the cut — this is what it's about

This is the cut — where the weak fall off

And the ones who stay? We never stop

Empty

But still standing

That's the cut

Written by: James R Ellis

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