Ledger Don't Lie (Version 2)

Intro

Yeah, one candle, one ledger, one truth

Marker Street basement, nineteen ninety-two shoes

Ledger don't lie

Verse

Woke up at five when the boiler still coughing

Wrote sixteen bars on a napkin while coffee cooling off

Momma said grind till the numbers start speaking

Kept a spiral notebook, every hustle I'm keeping

Corner store credit, paid it back with the interest

Sole of my shoes worn but the soul in it fearless

Studio time traded for stocking the shelves

Learned how to budget before I learned how to sell myself

Every dollar counted like a verse that's precise

Every bar I dropped had to cover the price

Uncle Ray said "son, the streets keep a tab"

So I kept my receipts folded up like a math

No shortcuts, no favors, just hours and grit

Turned the porch light bulb into a spotlight bit

Every rejection just another line item filed

Building an empire one page, one mile, one child

Chorus

Ledger don't lie, I write what I live

Every hour I bled is a page that I give

Column of struggle turn into the shine

Ledger don't lie, and the numbers all mine

Ledger don't lie, I write what I live

Every hour I bled is a page that I give

Column of struggle turn into the shine

Ledger don't lie, and the numbers all mine

Verse

Now the notebook's a laptop, the block still the same

Same corner where I learned how to carry my name

Pressed shirts on Sundays, pressed rhymes after dark

Every bar I lay down leave a permanent mark

Investors ask questions, I answer with proof

Show 'em the ledger, the receipts is the truth

Every skip meal logged like a lesson I owe

Every late night grind is a seed that I sow

Cousin Ronnie doubted, said the rap game a maze

I said watch the entries add up over days

Turned my losses to lessons, my lessons to gold

Every verse I write got a story that's told

Bank teller smiling now, she remembers my face

Said "young man your numbers done outgrown this place"

I just nod, keep it humble, keep counting the cost

Cause the ledger don't lie about nothing I lost

Chorus

Ledger don't lie, I write what I live

Every hour I bled is a page that I give

Column of struggle turn into the shine

Ledger don't lie, and the numbers all mine

Ledger don't lie, I write what I live

Every hour I bled is a page that I give

Column of struggle turn into the shine

Ledger don't lie, and the numbers all mine

Bridge

Some nights the balance sheet don't add up clean

Some months the red ink outweigh the green

But I keep writing, keep tallying the fight

Cause the entry tomorrow depend on tonight

Every mistake is a debit I own

Every win in the margin, a seed that I've grown

No forgery, no fronting, just facts on the line

This the book of my life, and every page mine

Outro

Close the ledger, the proof is in ink

Every hour accounted, every second I think

Ledger don't lie, never will, never has

That's the receipt, that's the story, that's facts