IRON CEDAR – "RENTED CROWN"

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IRON CEDAR – "RENTED CROWN" (Intro) Yeah... Iron Cedar. Northwoods. No security blanket. No smoke machines. Just bars. (Verse 1) You manufactured magic, I manufactured scars, Blueprints in a notebook, now I'm blueprintin' stars. Every page pressure-tested, every sentence got weight, You can rent an image—but you can't imitate fate. See, I was raised where the winters don't pardon, Split wood, cold hearts, steel nerves in the garden. Every loss was a lesson, every bruise got receipts, You learned from applause—I learned from defeat. Now your reputation's wobblin', mine's steady as pine, You chased every camera, I perfected every line. My cadence got calluses, my flow got gravel, Your whole presentation starts to slowly unravel. (Hook) No rented crown, no borrowed name, Pressure made a legend, pain lit the flame. Northwoods soldier, boots in the mud, Built from sweat, not a spotlight flood. No rented crown, no polished disguise, Truth don't blink when it looks in your eyes. You can fool the crowd for a minute, not forever— Real always lasts, counterfeit never. (Verse 2) I'm a back-road battering ram, blacktop breaker, Verse excavator, beat undertaker. Multi-syllable missiles with Midwest momentum, Every sixteen bars feel like heavy equipment. Your highlight reel glitter don't survive bad weather, Mine been stitched together with blood and leather. I don't throw stones—I level foundations, Turn weak reputations into cautionary statements. Northwoods wind put frost in my lungs, Now every rhyme lands like a twelve-gauge drum. You collected attention—I collected resolve, Now every problem that I face gets solved. This ain't hatred, it's a lesson in balance, Character outlives celebrity status. When the lights cut off and the headlines fade, Only truth and the music remember your name. (Outro) Iron Cedar. Built in the cold. Forged under pressure. The louder the gimmicks... The heavier the bars.

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