[Intro — Spoken] Redemption Road. First Ave blackout nights to cellblock fights, rehab mornings to porchlight dawns — this is the map of how I came home. Ten years sober. I keep the light. [Verse 1] First Ave at midnight, breath foggin' up the glass, Hood pulled low, alley hymn, the sidewalk knows the past. Bottles like metronomes, ticking time where I slipped free falls, Sleepless on a rooftop counting losses past the building walls. Handcuffs clicked like castanets beneath the fluorescent glare, Mugshot grin, cracked lens of a life I left out there. Cellblock doors clap names — the concrete keeps receipts, Iron on my wrist, iron on my chest, midnight repeating beats. Kept a photo folded thin — three crooked grins, syrup-on-chins, Cartoon mornings stuck to memory like a light that never dims. That picture hummed a chorus: "Come home, stand again," So I started tracing promises where my fingerprints had been. [Pre-Chorus ] No more wasted haze, no more First Ave calls, I row back from the cliff and watch the curtain fall. Two daughters, one son — the scoreboard of what lasts, Mikey's back to basics, buryin' the wasted past. [Chorus — Hook] Redemption Road — I keep the light, ten years up, we sleep at night. Redemption Road — my porch at six, syrup on chins, the world feels right. Redemption Road — I keep the light, ten years up, we sleep at night. Redemption Road — small footsteps line the hall, we hold on tight. [Verse 2] First sober dawn in rehab, slatted sun through tired blinds, Chipped mug on the sink, circle lines, voices heal our minds. Counselor says "day by day," I write it on a paper sleeve, Nights of counting breaths, sleepless fights turned into how I breathe. I braid my girl's hair slow, knot it with a promise kept, Fix a splinter, read the lines, kiss the forehead while they slept. No more fast cash in glove boxes, no more two a.m. schemes, I traded corner lullabies for kazoo-sunrise dreams. Court papers filed for custody, parole stamp like math, I learned the geometry of tiny hands and steady paths. Ten years clean — I count each sunrise like a rung on praise, From blackout fights to bedtime lights, I walked out of the maze. And I love my fiancée more than all the liquor under the sun — Her hand beat the bottle back, she helped me pick up where I run. [Pre-Chorus — Variation] Three pairs of shoes by the door, a flashlight on the floor, Her laugh folds like a map that leads me past that old front door. No more parties on First Ave, no more sleeping 'til noon, We keep our vows in morning light — we've earned each rising tune. [Chorus — Hook] Redemption Road — I keep the light, ten years up, we sleep at night. Redemption Road — my porch at six, syrup on chins, the world feels right. Redemption Road — I keep the light, ten years up, we sleep at night. Redemption Road — small footsteps line the hall, we hold on tight. [Rap Bridge — 16 Bars] (1) Judge bangs the gavel — echo punches through my chest, (2) Photo in a folder, cold flash