Little Friend

Lyrics

Verse 1
I came in quiet, whole room froze
Boots hit stone, then the cold wind blows
Got a blacked-out grin and a locked-in stare
You can feel that weight when I get near

No fake shine, no talk, no plea
Just a long long night and a bad-luck breeze
Hands too steady, heart too calm
Like a match in a jar, like a siren song

I know the look when the fear goes thin
When the smile don't reach, but the teeth stay in
I been buried in the mud, I been left for dead
Still I crawl right back with a thump in my head

Old ghosts talk, but I don't fold
I keep one eye on the prize, one on the cold
Every scar got a story sewn
Every debt got a name I know

And if the whole block hush when I step through
That's the sound of a room that forgot what I do
I don't need luck, I don't need grace
Just a clear open lane and a hard-boned face

Pre-Chorus
You can hear that low end roll
Feel it shake through your floorboard soul
I been waiting for the right hook, right time
One hand up, and it's mine, it's mine

Chorus
Say hello to my little friend
Say hello to my little friend
Keep that fear on a short, short leash
When I move, it don't move in peace

Say hello to my little friend
Say hello to my little friend
If you came for the smoke, then stay
I don't break, I just aim my way

Verse 2
I was built where the patience runs thin
Where the rain hits hard and the lies sink in
Learned to read a face in a single glance
Learned to take that hit, then still take a chance

Got a pocket full of grit and a throat full of fire
Every step I take pulls the room up higher
Not a saint, not clean, not sweet
I'm the last one standing in the longest heat

They want me small, want me boxed in tight
Want my name in the dirt and my hands off sight
But I got a pulse like a door kicked in
And a laugh like a blade at the edge of sin

Watch that line when the body gets still
Watch how fast a whole plan can spill
I'm the calm before the crack in the wall
I'm the one that don't flinch when the shadows call

I don't chase, I don't beg, I don't bow
If the world wants smoke, then the world gets now
Every move got weight, every word got bone
Every night got teeth and a mind of its own

Pre-Chorus
You can hear that low end roll
Feel it shake through your floorboard soul
I been waiting for the right hook, right time
One hand up, and it's mine, it's mine

Chorus
Say hello to my little friend
Say hello to my little friend
Keep that fear on a short, short leash
When I move, it don't move in peace

Say hello to my little friend
Say hello to my little friend
If you came for the smoke, then stay
I don't break, I just aim my way

Bridge
Yeah, I know what they said
That I'd fold, that I'd crack, that I'd quit instead
But I kept that pressure in my chest
Kept that sharp edge tucked where the dark gets pressed

Now the room can't breathe
When I cut through the smoke, when I slide on these
And that long thin scream in the sky won't fade
It just hangs like a curse in the air I made

Break
Hold up
Watch me

Verse 3
I don't do broad smiles, I do hard truth
I do cold floors, I do storm-proof youth
I do late-night calls with a shaky breath
I do one more step when there's nothing left

I got dirt on my sleeves and a crown made of pain
Got a wolf in my mouth and a storm in my name
Every time I fall, I land on my feet
Like the world got a habit of making me beat

But I come back louder, come back meaner
Come back with a stare like a grim reaper cleaner
I keep that eerie line running overhead
Like a wire pulled taut from the living to the dead

Don't test my calm, don't test my nerve
I been through the kind of nights that burn
I been through the kind of days that bend
Still I stand like a wall that won't give in

So when I step and the whole place knows
When the hush turns deep and the cold wind blows
You can run that mouth, you can talk that talk
But the second I grin,