Rat Race - A Broken Silence

Stress running through your brain

And you’re running for the train

Hands fumbling for change

Just another on the chase

Dinner on your plate, but rent is coming late

See your Mrs at the gate, it’s written on her face

Giving up your wage and drinking with your mates

On a mission so your feet ain’t hitting on no brakes

Some do it out of love

Some do it out of hate

Some do it for themselves

Or in it to create

You shape the world, with the path you lead

I see a star as an image that is far from me

And every obstacle, their benefits are hard to see

But later find they’re the parts you need

Try to stand, but stay braced for the fall

In that rat race, where the pace never stalls

Sacrifice, patience, face to the wall

On that paper chase, that relates us all

Just trying to stand but stay braced for the fall

In that rat race, where the pace never stalls

Sacrifice, patience, face to the wall

On that paper chase, that shapes us all

Car tank is on E, you put your baby off to sleep

Who’ll pay electricity (maybe next week)

Trying to get up on your feet, not hearing about defeat

Just trying to earn your keep, without burning your beliefs

They making in the street, it’s hard to turn the other cheek

But is serving your dreams worth a furnace that deep

Hurting with fatigue, coercing you to flee

But every adversity makes that person you be

You shape the world with the path you lead

I see a star as an image that is far from me

And every obstacle, their benefits are hard to see

But later find they’re the parts you need

Try to stand, but stay braced for the fall

In that rat race, where the pace never stalls

Sacrifice, patience, face to the wall

On that paper chase, that relates us all

Just trying to stand but stay braced for the fall

In that rat race, where the pace never stalls

Sacrifice, patience, face to the wall

On that paper chase, that shapes us all

Try to stand, but stay braced for the fall

In that rat race, where the pace never stalls

Sacrifice, patience, face to the wall

On that paper chase, that relates us all

Just trying to stand but stay braced for the fall

In that rat race, where the pace never stalls

Sacrifice, patience, face to the wall

On that paper chase, that shapes us all

Trying to stand (stand), brace (brace), fall

That rat race (race), pace don’t stall, do what it takes

Break through walls, that paper chase, shapes us all (yeah)

Trying to stand (stand), brace (brace), fall

That rat race (race), pace don’t stall, do what it takes

Break through walls, that paper chase, shapes us all (yeah)

Try to stand, but stay braced for the fall

In that rat race, where the pace never stalls

Sacrifice, patience, face to the wall

On that paper chase, that relates us all

Just trying to stand but stay braced for the fall

In that rat race, where the pace never stalls

Sacrifice, patience, face to the wall

On that paper chase, that shapes us all