Sweatline Kingdom (Version 2)

Verse

Last set under these same four walls

Chalk dust settles where the mirror falls

Taped-up knuckles, one more round

Packing years into a cardboard sound

Locker's empty, name peeled off the door

Six a.m. won't call me back no more

But my hands remember every fight

Carry the fire out into the night

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the whistle blowing

Closing time but I keep going

Something's breaking, something's healing

This goodbye's got a golden feeling

Chorus

We built it barefoot, brick by brick and burn

Sweatline kingdom, watch the ashes turn

Into gold dust rising off the floor

I'm not leaving empty, I'm leaving for more

Sweatline kingdom, crown still on

Take the throne with me when the lights go on

Verse

New gym smells like rubber and rain

Different playlist, same old ache and gain

But the bar feels heavy in a way that's true

I'm not chasing ghosts, I'm building new

Photograph curls up on the wall I left

Still the strongest thing I ever kept

Every drop of sweat I gave back then

Turned to armor I put on again

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the whistle blowing

Closing time but I keep going

Something's breaking, something's healing

This goodbye's got a golden feeling

Chorus

We built it barefoot, brick by brick and burn

Sweatline kingdom, watch the ashes turn

Into gold dust rising off the floor

I'm not leaving empty, I'm leaving for more

Sweatline kingdom, crown still on

Take the throne with me when the lights go on

Bridge

So long to the sting and the sweetness both

So long to the version I outgrow

I'll carry the echo, not the address

Take the calluses, leave the rest

Every ending's just a running start

Watch me build another one from scratch

Chorus

We built it barefoot, brick by brick and burn

Sweatline kingdom, watch the ashes turn

Into gold dust rising off the floor

I'm not leaving empty, I'm leaving for more

Sweatline kingdom, crown still on

Take the throne with me, we carry on