Amazing grace

I was down in the dirt with a needle in my vein,
Chasing highs that never came, lost inside the pain,
Every prayer felt like it bounced right off the frame,
Dust in my lungs, no hope, just the same old game.
I was a sinner with a crown of thorns, running from the dawn,
Truck rattlin’ down a backroad, feelin’ all withdrawn,
Then something in the quiet spoke my name in the calm,
And I started drawing on grace like a breath in my palm.
My mama cried, my friends all left, I burned every bridge,
Woke up in a motel with no money, no I didn't have shit
Just a bottle and a Bible I never read, too much grief,
Name on a warrant, scars on my back, living reckless, no relief.
I was the problem, I was the pain, I was the storm in my chest,
Running from the devil that I knew the best,
But grace showed up with calloused hands, didn’t ask for my past,
Picked me up off that gravel and said, “Son, this is your last.”

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**(Chorus – 8 bars, sung, big and anthemic)**
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
That dragged me out the ground,
I was lost, dead inside,
Now I’m breathing again, I’m found.
It was on a dirt road redemption,
Dust kicking up behind my tires,
Grace met me where I was broken,
And turned my whole life around, set my soul on fire.

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**(Verse 2 – 16 bars, sung, confessional)**
I remember that long dirt road home, no streetlights, just the moon,
Truck rattlin’, tires spittin’ gravel, heart beatin’ out of tune,
I was done with the pain, done with the lies, done with the man I used to be,
When grace pulled over beside me and said, “Son, you’re free.”
I’ve done things I can’t take back, seen the devil in my mirror,
Felt the chain, felt the shackles, felt the weight of all my fear,
But mercy found me in the wreckage, held me while I cracked,
Didn’t wait for me to fix it, didn’t wait for me to act.
I was the bottle, I was the pill, I was the high that never filled,
I was the anger, I was the rage, I was the one who had to burn,
I was the night in the back of a cruiser, cold steel and a fluorescent light,
I was the promise I broke to my mother, the son who didn’t do right.
But grace ran to me in the middle of the ruin, caught me through it all,
Didn’t care about my record, didn’t care about my fall,
It walked right through the wreckage, called me “son” instead of “sinner,”
And that dirt road turned into a highway, grace got me in.

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Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
That dragged me out the ground,
I was lost, dead inside,
Now I’m breathing again, I’m found.
It was on a dirt road redemption,
Dust kicking up behind my tires,
Grace met me where I was broken,
And turned my whole life around, set my soul on fire.

Energetic, aggressive male vocal, Androgynous Vocals, rap vocals, country hip Hop, outlaw country , gritty, Male Vocals, Country, Harmonica, Drums, Bass, moderate