(Break it to me) Don't dress it up but don't beat around the bush And don't cover it up but don't push it underground And don't keep it inside and don't edit and redact And no dumbing it down I know how to mend I can rise high above the ashes I'll

Sharp edges have consequences We all fall down We live somehow Stay along the beaten path, never listened when she said I guess that I had to find out for myself Now every scar is a story I can tell We learn what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger We'd

Strip it down, down, down Back to you and me like it used to be When it was an old back road with an old school beat Cowboy boots by your little bare feet Let it out, tell me right now Everything I need in them white cotton sheets Dirty dance me slow in

Bring your hammer Pound the nails Drag that coffin down in hell

Wanna keep you turned up, baby, keep you turned on 'Cause you're my party song I wanna keep you turned up, baby, keep you turned on You're my party song Knocking me down with that little beat you're thumpin' Keeping that king cab thumping And, girl, I

And I was born to fight I ain't been knocked down yet I was born to fight I'm the surest bet There ain't no man no woman No beast alive that can beat me 'Cause I'm born to fight They're tryin' to take away my pride By stripping me of everything I own

This is the sound beating of my loves Left alone, left alone, left alone Breathe out sorrow Breathe in sorrow Gonna watch you fake it now Will I freak can I calm down And I take it all at a loss Gonna find them peace in loss Holding by the knees and vow

Where once a heart was beating Nothing but embers glow Our love it serves as kindling To stoke this flames inferno I am hell to thee Down here all shall suffer with me Die purified Rise the ashes to the sky

And the fallen will get down on his knees You gonna face the mirror, you gonna seek another day And forever the man in the coat Then along came the mirror and the ripper What do you see in the night? Passing shadows that can scar your soul And make you

We can shake it When the lights go out And the bombs come down I will hear your heart beating When the morning comes And the war is done You will hear my heart beating