Steel Horizon 9

Verse 1

Corner store on the avenue corner

Empty bottles rolling in the street

Chain-link shadow against the basement wall

Same old block but it's moving underneath

I was folding laundry, hearing car doors shut at three o'clock

Neighbor's kid waving from behind the fence line

This ain't a story I would've written six months back

Now I'm walking taller than the corner light could hold

Pre-Chorus

Something shifts when you finally get to see the view

Every obstacle just turned out to be a door

I was knocking but the knob was rusted, now it swings wide for me

Nothing built itself, nothing ever comes that easy

Chorus

Look up, look up — that's the steel horizon line

Watch the whole sky open wide

Every scar on my chest was just a map I didn't read yet

I am standing at the edge of everything that I will be

Look up, look up — this is what it feels like to rise

Verse 2

Used to hide behind the newspaper stand on Wednesday nights

Now I'm leading the block with a different kind of light

Corner store owner knows my face before the ID check

Kids I used to see through the window now they're calling me next

I kept believing what it felt like to lose

Every setback was an opportunity to choose

Not the same scared version, no more running late at four

Pre-Chorus

Something shifts when you finally get to see the view

Every obstacle just turned out to be a door

I was knocking but the knob was rusted, now it swings wide for me

Nothing built itself, nothing ever comes that easy

Chorus

Look up, look up — that's the steel horizon line

Watch the whole sky open wide

Every scar on my chest was just a map I didn't read yet

I am standing at the edge of everything that I will be

Look up, look up — this is what it feels like to rise

Bridge

No more hiding behind the dumpster wall

This is mine now before it even falls

Every doubt that whispered 'you'll never make it' just walked out the door

I don't need a trophy, just this one view from here

I am not my past — I'm the kid with his head held high and open arms

Look up, look up — this is the only thing that ever was

Chorus

Look up, look up — that's the steel horizon line

Watch the whole sky open wide

Every scar on my chest was just a map I didn't read yet

I am standing at the edge of everything that I will be

Look up, look up — this is what it feels like to rise