Song means alot to me. Written at the highest and lowest points of my football career.
These sun rays shine on this page while my pen,
Flows like my clothes as they blow in the wind,
My ribs have grown sore from bone-crushing collisions,
My soul leeks like nose bleeds sending everything spinning,
No longer winning seems this time the score is against me,
Thought my spin move was sick but they got a linebacker to fix me,
Just an ounce of courage staring at all these empty seats,
I got blisters on my feet from walking around in these cleats,
Every pound of pressure weighs a ton on my shoulder,
Just let me quit now I'm done it's over,
Done ran 100 suicides but still I got nothing to show,
Even though coach says no you got two hours to go,
So I put my helmet on and snap my chinstrap,
Cut off this bloody strap from these shoulder pads on my back,
Smack me in my mouth even though my lips bleeding,
I'm gonna keep on running even though I'm not breathing,
My whole body's sore and every muscle aches,
But I'ma keep hitting you straight till even your facemask breaks,
It seems I'm way past great I'll be a legend even later,
You hear the crack of shoulder pads clash like that of gladiators,
My lip is busted open and my nose is bloody,
Coach said to never go down so get off of me,
Gotta keep pounding my legs just to get that extra yard,
Blood cover my entire jersey but what’s a war without the scars
Time kinda stops with this ball in my hand,
Now it's fall and I'm not tall but it's all that I am,
It’s all I feel I’ll ever be destined to see,
Unattainable goals that I’m destined to reach,
I sit with it rested in me unquestionably,
What’s holding me captive is all that is setting me free
"Your too small, your too weak, you're never gonna make it,
You say I can’t reach what I seek and I just can't shake it,
So just stay in Wichita Kansas and eat your cold cereal,
Just face it kid you're just not D-1 material,
Cause anyone can hit but you're just too inconsistent,
Man you almost had that tackle yeah too bad that you missed it,
You should have led your team to win but you couldn't,
You should have got up but you wouldn't, gave up when you shouldn't,
You were supposed to build the team up but you just sat in shame,
You even cried that one time after the St.Mary's game,
So what if you got hit, got up and coughed up blood,
We still expected you to carry this team knee deep in the mud,
And when you fractured your wrist and broke 3 ribs,
You should've quit but you just went back out and broke them again,
Time kinda stops with this ball in my hand,
Now it's fall and I'm not tall but it's all that I am,
It’s all I feel I’ll ever be destined to see,
Unattainable goals that I’m destined to reach,
I sit with it rested in me unquestionably,
What’s holding me captive is all that is setting me free
You call me a friend unaware of my deceitful mask,
My knees intact my helmet only completes the act,
My screams in fact only go to show I need this bad,
I only repeat the past how long will this evil last,
I manage to keep the laughs from peeking past,
My legal past seems to be all that people ask,
Watever the team'll ask, I live to be unselfish,
I'm not helpless, I just dont know what the hell help is,
Oh well it's the last time I'll ever touch this field,
I love this field,
I'll play through pain no matter how much I feel,
I want to feel that rush just once more,
Just one score, one more before I'm done for.
Time kinda stops with this ball in my hand,
Now it's fall and I'm not tall but it's all that I am,
It’s all I feel I’ll ever be destined to see,
Unattainable goals that I’m destined to reach,
I sit with it rested in me unquestionably,
What’s holding me captive is all that is setting me free