[Verse 1]
Midnight on 3rd & Ridge, cold stoop, busted laces
Notebook full of late-night lines, old beats, empty cases
Rosa's neon on the corner, coffee stains on the page
Mama’s clock at 2AM, praying hard against the wage
First show in a backroom, twenty heads and sticky floors
Second verse kept me breathing when the landlord knocked the door
Sirens stitched into the hook, subway rumble in the bass
Ink on the knuckles, heartbeat syncopated with the chase
[Pre-Chorus]
We countin' scars like trophies, every loss a lesson taught
Turn the static into signal, flip the pain into a plot
No more quiet, feel the riot of our names in the light
One breath, one step, we press — tonight’s the night
[Chorus]
Ash to flight, we take the night (ash to flight, we take the night)
Rooftop rise, neon eyes, bring the fight
Ash to flight, we take the night (tag: rooftop rise)
Short and loud — we own the sky, we own the night
[Verse 2]
Check bounced two winters back, rent tag taped to the door
I sold a beat to pay the phone, still I wanted more
Microphone held like a promise, cold kitchen, burner light
Mixing hope with burnt toast, writing truth into the night
Promoter ghosted, pockets thin, but the chorus kept its glow
From open-mic alone to a line outside the show
Trophies ain't silver platters — they're the nights we didn't fold
Raised on thrift-store speakers, now the speakers hold my soul
[Pre-Chorus]
Echoes of the stoop still hum under these brighter lights
We sharpened every misstep into something that ignites
No façade, just raw, we press the city into rhyme
One breath, one step, we claim — it's our time
[Chorus]
Ash to flight, we take the night (ash to flight, we take the night)
Rooftop rise, neon eyes, bring the fight
Ash to flight, we take the night (tag: rooftop rise)
Short and loud — we own the sky, we own the night
[Bridge]
Confession in the doorway — called my mom, voice thin and cracked
“Was I wrong to chase this?” she said, “or brave to keep on track?”
I told her ’bout the nights I slept on benches under rain
She said, “Boy, keep your hunger — but don't let pride be pain.”
That doubt cut like a razor, but it taught me how to bleed
Now I stitch those wounds into verses, plant a root from every seed
For every friend that left me, for every cheque that bounced away
We stack those losses like a ladder — climbin' higher every day
[Chorus — Final]
Ash to flight, we take the night (ash to flight, we take the night)
Rooftop rise, neon eyes, bring the fight
Ash to flight, we take the night (tag: rooftop rise)
Short and loud — we own the sky, we own the night
[Outro]
Rooftop rise — echo it in alleyways and trains
From the stoop to the skyline, from the ink to the refrains
Ash to flight — that's the tag on every fight we write
Rooftop rise, neon eyes — keep the light, keep the light
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