Get Back Up Again

[Intro]
[low vocal register]
Hit the floor
taste of dust, steel jaw
Crowd in my head yelling "stay down"
I tighten my laces instead

[Verse 1]
First fall, concrete kiss
Blood on my knuckles, I remember this
Rent due, heart broke, bad news again
Every "never gonna make it" sounded like a friend
Mama at the table doing math with the lights dim
Said "life swing hard, you gotta swing right back at it"
So I staggered to my feet, vision all blur
But my will got louder than every cruel word

[Chorus]
I get knocked down, I get back up again
Every hit I take just sharpens my swing
They can count me out, but they won't end my round
Heart on the ropes, still breaking that bell with the sound
I get knocked down, I get back up again
Put my name in the dirt, it grows through the sand
I get knocked down, I get back up again
Get back up again, get back up again

[Verse 2]
[soft sax riff under vocals]
Lost job, cold call, "we're letting you go"
Stood in the parking lot staring at the snow
Phone full of bills, stomach full of fear
But quitting never paid me yet in all these years
Violin in my chest, string stretched to the limit
Every tremble, every tremor turned to rhythm in a minute
Harmonica in my breath, bent notes like scars
I just kept walking, aiming at the stars
Friends turned strangers, doors turned walls
Every wrong road, I still walked tall
Got dropped to my knees, hands cracked, voice shook
Wrote my future in the dirt where they never thought to look

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
[whispered vocals]
Count it out
One fall, two fall, three fall, four
[louder]
Every time I hit the ground, I rise once more
Five cuts, six scars, seven hard years
But I'm running through the fire, running through my fears
[violin swell, harmonica echo]
You can break my plans, can't break my drive
I was built in the storm just to stay alive
Every bruise just proof that I stood and I swung
I ain't done till the final breath leaves my lungs (yeah)

[Chorus]