City Holds the Debt (version 2)

Verse

Concrete floor, a hundred eyes

Watch me bleed for what I buy

Steel doors locked at half past nine

Count my pulse until it climbs

Fog machine and static hiss

Every step is what they miss

I don't ask, I just repay

Before the sun comes through

Pre-Chorus

Who's the debt collector now?

Who's the blade in this house?

Tell me one good reason why

You should let me walk out alive

Chorus

City holds the debt, I settle at dawn

Every strike is what it was owed

Blood for blocks, block by block down

This floor decides when I am gone

Verse

Chrome veins dripping on the tile

Ninety hearts beating my style

Security don't ask me why

Just watch me cross that line

Somebody's rent, somebody's name

Same blood in every single frame

Every fist I throw buys time

Time enough to climb out of this place

Pre-Chorus

Who's the debt collector now?

Who's the blade in this house?

Tell me one good reason why

You should let me walk out alive

Chorus

City holds the debt, I settle at dawn

Every strike is what it was owed

Blood for blocks, block by block down

This floor decides when I am gone

Bridge

Not for glory

Just so they don't own me

I already lost this name

Before they locked the door in place

No hero's flag, no legend's weight

Just the debt and a countdown slate

They call it payment, I call it rent

Either way this floor gets spent

Chorus

City holds the debt, I settle at dawn

Every strike is what it was owed

Blood for blocks, block by block down

This floor decides when I am gone