Scorched Earth

[Couplet 1]
I paved the way with pain, played chess in the flames
My past’s a pyre, packed tight with tireless names
Spoke smoke signals, soaked in sulfur and sins
Scratched scripts in ash, cracked grin, black pins
Burnt bridges brag back, bitch, I built ‘em in blood
Choked on the chants of chance, now I’m chillin’ with mud
History’s hissin’, spittin’ spite in my sleeve
But I still stack sparks like I’m lightin’ to leave

[Couplet 2]
Ashes echo answers I ain’t askin’ to hear
Futures fizzled out fast, now the path’s unclear
Left love locked, lost, in a landslide of lies
Bare bones battleground, where the memory dies
Truth's a torch-tongued tease, twistin’ my talk
Slick with sick syntax, I slip when I walk
Felt frostbite fists in the heat of the feud
Still steppin’ through soot in my steel-toed mood

[Refrain 1]
Scorched earth, no turf, just a trail of regret
Each step’s a bet, with the Devil in debt
Scorched earth, no worth in the wreck that I roam
Heart's a hearth turned dark, now I spark it alone

[Couplet 3]
I spit spite, split nights with a silvered scythe
Grim grip on the mic, writin’ wrongs in my life
Got ghosts in my grin, gin mixed with my guilt
Painted pain in prose, every sentence I built
Bleed beats on the brink, broke bread with the blaze
Clocks melt in my mind, minutes flicker and fade
Tried treadin’ light, but the floorboards combust
Now I rhyme from the ruins, in rebellion I trust

[Couplet 4]
Fire fed facts, turned ‘em fragile and fake
Felt fate fumble, I’m the faultline's quake
Punched pride in the pulse, played the pen like a pick
Dug dirt with my verse, made the mythos stick
These scars are syllables, seared into skin
Every burn is a bar where my story begins
Flames don’t flinch, they just feast on the fear
Still I spit with a snarl, standin’ straight in the sear

[Refrain 2]
Scorched earth, no turf, just a trail of regret
Each step’s a bet, with the Devil in debt
Scorched earth, no worth in the wreck that I roam
Heart's a hearth turned dark, now I spark it alone
Scorched earth, where the words don’t grow
Just ghosts in the glow, and a hellish echo
Scorched earth, I curse every cause of my birth
Watch me walk through the fire, I’m at war with this earth

[Pont]
I breathe brimstone bars with a bastard’s breath
Trade truth for trauma, got a pact with death
I laugh at the lash, let it carve my creed
Fuel fire with fear till my thoughts stampede
Charcoal choices, I choke on change
Chain-linked logic in a lava-lit cage
Came clean in the chaos, cracked by the curse
But I’m back from the black with a verse unrehearsed
Now I write with wrath, wit dipped in war
Wounds write wisdom when your world’s no more
I torch every tale that they tried to tell
Rhyme’s my riot, I’m the rebel of hell
Each beat’s a battlefield, blood in the bars
I bomb every beat, leave ‘em marked with my scars
Born from the blaze, I ain’t breakin’ or bent
Just a phoenix with fists, full of fire and intent

[Refrain 3]
Scorched earth, no turf, just a trail of regret
Each step’s a bet, with the Devil in debt
Scorched earth, no worth in the wreck that I roam
Heart's a hearth turned dark, now I spark it alone
Scorched earth, where the words don’t grow
Just ghosts in the glow, and a hellish echo
Scorched earth, I curse every cause of my birth
Watch me walk through the fire, I’m at war with this earth

[Refrain 4]
Scorched earth, no turf, just a trail of regret
Each step’s a bet, with the Devil in debt
Scorched earth, no worth in the wreck that I roam
Heart's a hearth turned dark, now I spark it alone
Scorched earth, where the words don’t grow
Just ghosts in the glow, and a hellish echo
Scorched earth, I curse every cause of my birth
Still I rap through the ruins, I’m the scorch of the earth