Tick Tock

Tick tock
Tick tock
Act first
Think later
Understand when the smoke is gone
My mind was forged
In pressure and storms
And every year
The weight grows strong
Tick tock
Tick tock
There's a clock in my chest
Tick tock
Tick tock
Every second
A loaded threat

Time won't stop
And neither will I
Fuel in my lungs
Fire inside
No time for games
No time for show
If something must move
I pull the trigger
And go
While they debate
What's right or wrong
By the time they speak
It's already done

Tick tock
Tick tock
My mind won't rest
This pressure now
Became my vest
This ain't a race
Against your pace
It's war with the mirror
Face to face
Tick tock
Tick tock

A bomb in my chest
Time screaming loud
Every regret
I'm not running
Against you
I'm running
Against me
If the world screams
Slow down
That's something
I can't be
If it burns
To watch someone rise
Then don't look
At me
My mind keeps moving
Before I can feel
I act first
Then make it real
Almost a machine
Cold routine
Emotion slips
In between
In the end
What had to be done
I did

Even with voices
Filling my head
Funny hearing judgment
From those instead
Because in the end
I carried the weight
They never gave me
Every mistake
Taxed my future
For them it was nothing
For me it was brutal

They never stood
Where I stood
Never ran
Through what I could
Never slept
With rain on the roof
Counting seconds
Searching for proof
If your voice only rises
To judge
Then your weight
Won't move my path

You don't set my pace
You don't choose my north
Those who never fell
Don't know the cost
Those who never bled
Don't know the weight
Of a whole damn world
I had to take
They talk from chairs
I ran through storms
They held opinions
I held the world

Tick tock
Tick tock
Time running
Tick tock
Tick tock
Mind burning
Tick
Tock

Heart still beating
Time revealing
Who's still breathing
It's never about
Beating someone
In the end
It's beating
The worst in me
They can talk
They can measure
But in the end
I did more
Than they ever did
For me
Words disappear
In the wind
But actions stay
Until the end

Tick
Tock
Time never lies
Every second
Redefines