[Intro - High Energy]

Back on my grind no peace in the system
Had to get it out the mud no wishlist
Talkin pain this deeper than scriptures
Mask on heart cold like the winter (uhh)

Woke up stressed still pray to the East
I been battlin devils that feast
City on fire no love in the streets
Voices in my head say "never be weak"

(yeah)
(what)

[Verse 1]

They don't know what I faced in the dark
Whole fam eatin off crumbs and heart
Momma cried nights I was back in the yard
No lights on just the sound of the cars

Grew up on pain turnt that to a lesson
Posted on blocks where death keep pressin
Ain’t no peace just smoke and confessions
Still throw fists when life start testin

I ain't fold though mind like a razor
Life got hands but I came out braver
Never seen a halo just cops with a taser
System don’t love us they just wanna cage us

[Chorus]

This for the trials the nights that I cried
For the homies that fell for the ones that survived
From the struggle we rose with pain in our eyes
I been through hell now I’m learnin to fly

(woo)
Trials
(yeah)
We been through trials
(uh huh)
This that survival
Can’t fake what’s vital

[Verse 2]

Fake love in my DM’s flooded
But where was they when my shoes got blooded
All I had was a pen and hunger
Whole world sleepin I was screamin from hunger

Grit in my soul I don't need no feature
My pain don’t stream it preach like a preacher
Streets taught me more than the school did teach us
Lost too much can’t let no leech up

Scars on my knuckles from fights I won
Real ones gone they ain't see the sun
Now I write truth in the booth for fun
But it’s still real when the day is done

[Chorus]

This for the trials the nights that I cried
For the homies that fell for the ones that survived
From the struggle we rose with pain in our eyes
I been through hell now I’m learnin to fly

(woah)
Trials
(say that)
We been through trials
(that’s facts)
This that survival
(uhh)
Can’t fake what’s vital

[Bridge - Stripped Back]

We was never meant to win they say
But we built our name from the ash and clay
Still walk proud through the disarray
Still pray loud like it's judgement day

[Final Chorus - Layered Harmonies + Harmonic Drop]

This for the trials the nights that I cried
For the homies that fell for the ones that survived
From the struggle we rose with pain in our eyes
I been through hell now I’m learnin to fly

Trials
We been through trials
This that survival
Can’t fake what’s vital

[Outro - DJ Scratches + Cymbal Fade]

(Still standin)
(Still fightin)
Trials
(Still risin)
Still risin

[End]