Ash on my palms, clock still tickin’ — I let it sit, let it simmer, then I resurface.

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Verse 1

They wrote me off, chalked my name on broken tiles

Street taught me patience, taught me how to file the trials

Kept receipts of every slight, every backhanded smile

Let the silence do the work while I learned to stack my miles

Cold dinners, colder nights, dreams under neon fumes

I turned the grief into a blueprint, sketched it in my room

You wanted rage, I took the quiet — let it groom

Now my steps sound like a verdict when I enter any room

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Pre-Hook

No fireworks, no shout — the ember did the job

Gravel voice in the dark, now the roar come from the coda

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Hook (Chorus)

I resurface, vengeance not taken but lessons made a throne

From the ash, I build a palace, stone by stone

You expected me broken, I rose quiet, I rose alone

I resurface, not for fury — to own what I own

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Verse 2

You staked your bets on chaos, prayed I’d crack the code

Posted sympathy in captions, but never paid my load

I kept the ledger clean, let karma write in bold

Now every door I open plays the anthem that you stole

No sirens, no parades — I moved strategic, cold

Victory in slow motion, gold trimming my fold

They ask how I walked out whole, I tell ’em it was sold

Paid in patience, interest high — watch the story unfold

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Pre-Hook (variation)

No pyres, no pleas — I kept the ledger tall

Quiet wins, heavy crown — watch the dominoes fall

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Hook (Chorus)

I resurface, vengeance not taken but lessons made a throne

From the ash, I build a palace, stone by stone

You expected me broken, I rose quiet, I rose alone

I resurface, not for fury — to own what I own

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Bridge (Spoken / rap half-time vibe)

This ain’t retribution — that’s cheap and loud

This is reclamation — silent, measured, proud

I watched the wolves applaud when I bent my back

They misread my quiet for a missing track

Now I move with a setlist of everything they lack

Cold eyes, warmer pockets, future mapped on my back

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Verse 3 (Final push)

They said I vanished — I was incubatin’ flights

Turned the nights into tuition, graduated from the fights

My roster full of ghosts who never saw the heights

Now they call my line, ask for favors in the night

I don’t cancel checks for whispers, I cash fate in full

My ledger stamped in courage, every scar a pull

Resurfaced to a skyline that learned my name, my rule

Vengeance not taken, but the throne done paid in soul

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Hook / Outro (repeat, fading)

I resurface, vengeance not taken but lessons made a throne

From the ash, I build a palace, stone by stone

You expected me broken, I rose quiet, I rose alone

I resurface, not for fury — to own what I own

(Final ad-lib) Ash to apex, quiet coronation — I resurface.