Pulling off your fingernails One by one by one by one Pulling off your fingernails One by one by one by one God as my witness no more compromise I'm in the fight of my life Picked up the language and speaking it nice I'm in the fight of my life They taught me vicious so they recognise I'm in the fight for my life Blood on your hands and now blood covers mine Having the time of my life with your fingernails One by one by one by one Pulling off your fingernails One by one by one by one Pulling off your fingernails Out here promising to do my best Out here thinking I don’t know what’s next Out here Pulling off your fingernails one by one Violence is history and history has rhymed We got the fight of our lives Sign the petitions so peaceful so quiet We got the fight of our lives Won’t be no victim won’t be no messiah I'm in the fight for my life Days meant for love and there’s days meant for ire I had the time of my life pulling off your fingernails one by one Pulling off your fingernails one by one One by one by one by one Pulling off your fingernails One by one by one by one Pulling off your fingernails Out here promising to do my best Out here thinking I don’t know what’s next Out here Pulling off your fingernails one by one Why you wasted? Why you wasted? Why you wasted? Why you wasted? One by one by one by one One by one by one by one One by one by one by one One by one by one by one One by one by one by one One by one by one by one One by one by one by one One by one by one by one One by one by one by one One by one by one by one Out here promising to do my best Out here thinking I don’t know what’s next Out here Pulling off your fingernails one by one