Lights out

This is the part they don't see

Backstage and the silence is deafening

The noise outside is building but in here it's just my breath again

Heartbeat in my ears, nothing else is registering

I'm not nervous - I'm becoming something threatening

Mirror on the wall and the man staring back at me

Isn't who I was - he's who I was crafting to be

Every sacrifice, every scar, every tragedy

Condensed into this moment like a loaded battery

I don't need a pep talk, I don't need a speech

I don't need your energy, I'm far beyond your reach

I went somewhere deeper - where the quiet starts to teach

That the loudest weapon in the room is silence before you breach

The lights are going down

The crowd is getting loud

But I can't hear a sound

'Cause I'm already in the ground - buried in the zone

Lights out - I can't see you

Lights out - don't need to

Lights out - I'm in the dark

And the dark is where I learned to find the spark

I can feel it building - something ancient in the marrow

Every rep I ever pulled is loading in the barrel

Twenty years compressed into a hallway getting narrow

And at the end? A stage lit up like a funeral for my shadow

I've been rehearsing this in every gym at five AM

In every mirror, every set, every time I couldn't stand

They see a moment - I see a monument I planned

Brick by brick in silence with these calloused hands

The oil's on, the skin is tight, the veins are mapped like highways

Every striation earned in basements, never hallways

I don't need the spotlight, I became my own display

Now when they kill the lights - that's when I come alive anyway

The lights are going down

The crowd is getting loud

But I can't hear a sound

'Cause I'm already in the ground - buried in the zone

Lights out - I can't see you

Lights out - don't need to

Lights out - I'm in the dark

And the dark is where I learned to find the spark

This is the tunnel

Where the world outside stops existing

Where your name don't matter

Your job don't matter

Your pain don't matter

The only thing that exists is the next ten minutes

And whether you'll walk out there and prove

That everything you sacrificed

Was worth it

I'm detonating, I've been waiting, meditating, calculating every second of this moment 'til I'm levitating

Suffocating all the doubt, eradicating, decimating every limitation that they fabricated

I'm the consecration of a generation's worth of patience that was incubating in the dark - now I'm radiating

And I'm never going back to being underestimated - I'm the standard, I'm the statement, I'm the living demonstration

I didn't come to place, I came to dominate the placement

I didn't come to show, I came to show 'em what replacement means

Every poser on that stage is looking at their expiration

'Cause I've been building in the dark - and now it's my illumination

So kill the lights - I don't need 'em

Kill the music - I don't need it

Kill the doubt - already beaten

When these lights come back on - you'll believe it

The lights are going down

The crowd is getting loud

But I can't hear a sound

'Cause I'm already in the ground - buried in the zone

Lights out - I can't see you

Lights out - don't need to

Lights out - I'm in the dark

And the dark is where I learned to find the spark

Lights out

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