[Verse 1]

[Verse 1] Pain’s deep —I've been to hell nobody mentioned the basement. payed my toll kept my soul experienced cold spirits in my existance proof of the knowledge collected now wisdom I see Seen the reaper smile at me, I told that mother fucker not today not me l I’m still breathin’ I was all alone in the cold,felt needles frozen in my skin  Now I stand on my scars like armor on my heart never foldin’ again    hammer hittin’ steel, sharpening my truth I ain’t proud of where I been,or somethings I had to do but  I’m still standin’odlbsticles and clouds Used to chase the dragon, blowing clouds the silence loud now it's the comandining the dragon — bars [Hook] mentally broken, I was chained, I was barely alive vocal restrained Now I’m screamin’ from the ashes — this my battle cry! Every fiend stuck out n limbo, every soul lost  ever tear in your eye Stand up, look to the sky — this our battle cry! bars [Verse 2] I remember cold nights, couldn’t pray, couldn’t sleep Now I pray for the ones still stuck in that heat I used to be a slave to the poison in my vein Now I’m speakin’ for the ones still drownin’ in that pain Look — I ain’t holy, I’m just honest, every sin’s a tattoo But I wear ‘em like trophies, proof of what I been through Ain’t no shame left in me, I’m built from that grime Every scar on my body is a lyric in my rhyme — bars [Hook] I was broken, I was chained, I was barely alive Now I’m screamin’ from the ashes — this my battle cry! Every fiend, every lost soul, every tear in your eye Stand up, look to the sky — this our battle cry! bars [Bridge] If you hear my story, don’t pity my past I was buried in the dirt, now I rose through the ash Ain’t no halo on my head, but I fight like a saint For the lost, for the hopeless, for the ones that can’t — bars [Outro] So when the night comes heavy and the demons try to creep Remember this voice from the gutter, that refused to fall asleep I’m Joe the Mortal, but my spirit don’t die This is pain turned purpose — this my battle cry.