Count It Twice Before Sunrise

Intro

Count it twice before the sunrise (twice)

Same ones laughed, now they surprised (surprised)

Cold room, one light, tired eyes

Turned a whisper to a war cry

Verse

Started with a hundred folded thin in a shoebox,

counted quarters in the kitchen while the stove clocked.

They said Ferro fold before the winter, watch the boy flop,

now the safe hum like a cricket when the noise stops.

Mama worked the graveyard, apron stained with grease drops,

I was tracing rented ceilings, plotting how the lease drops.

Doubters had a chorus, sang it every time I fell down,

I recorded every verse and made a hit off the sell-out.

Sixteen with the notebook, ink bleeding through the seam,

scribbled bigger than the block that never let me dream.

Now the chain drip like a faucet that I never fixed,

and the ones who called me broke asking who I ever missed.

Winter never broke me, made me colder than the concrete,

walked through every no until the yeses got to meet me.

Count the losses, stack 'em, turn 'em into steady lessons,

I don't pray for luck no more, I just guard my blessings.

Chorus

Count it twice before the sunrise,

same ones doubted, now they mummified.

Told me never, watch me turn a maybe into my life,

count it twice before the sunrise, count it twice.

Verse

They wanted proof, so I printed it in numbers on a slip,

folded fifties in a rubber band, thumbed it like a flip.

Uncle said I'd sink, now I'm buying him the boat,

same lips that laughed at me repeating what I wrote.

Four a.m. the city sleeping, I'm awake on the roof,

counting neon like the stars I couldn't reach in my youth.

Bought my mama out the building where the elevator broke,

now she's parked beneath a palm tree, that's the punchline, no joke.

They measured me in setbacks, I was measuring the climb,

every stair they said was closing, I was breaking down the sign.

Cold coffee on the console, empty road at the light,

I was chasing every dollar 'til the shadow chased right.

Now I'm sitting where the doubters said I'd never get seated,

same table, different plate, and they hungry, I fed 'em.

Loyalty a currency, I spend it on the day ones,

the rest can watch the sunrise while I count what the way won.

Chorus

Count it twice before the sunrise,

same ones doubted, now they mummified.

Told me never, watch me turn a maybe into my life,

count it twice before the sunrise, count it twice.

Bridge

I don't gloat, I just glow when the numbers get quiet,

kept receipts on the nights that they tried to deny it.

Every closed door was a drum I learned to play,

turned the no into a note that I hum in the day.

Outro

Count it twice before the sunrise.

Doubt made the diamond, pressure cut the price.

Same ones laughed, now they memorize.

Count it twice before the sunrise.