ColdThe grind'll freeze you upLearned to feel it later, put the focus in a cupCold, that's the price of never giving upBuilt a wall around the soft so the work could get doneNow the warmth come on my schedule, not for everyoneUsed to wear it on my sleeve, now I wear it on a vaultSoft got me robbed, so I studied my own faultNot heartless, just guarded, there's a difference if you knewLet too many in the door that I'm now locking onto youThe streets don't make you evil, they just make you precisePay attention once, you don't pay the same price twiceColdThe grind'll freeze you upLearned to feel it later, put the focus in a cupCold, that's the price of never giving upI had to freeze the feelings just to make the moves I madeCouldn't grieve in real time when the bills had to be paidSo I boxed it up and stacked it and I told myself not nowAnd the not-now turned to armor, turned to focus, turned to howBut I know the thaw is coming when the war is finally wonCold was just the season, it was never who I'm fromColdThe grind'll freeze you upLearned to feel it later, put the focus in a cupCold, that's the price of never giving upPeople see the calm and think there's nothing going onBut still water run the deepest and the quiet hold the stormI learned to keep a poker face through everything I lostCounted up the lessons but I never showed the costThe cold ain't who I wanted, it's the armor that I forgedA soft heart in a hard world is a thing that gets it gorgedDon't mistake the quiet for a heart that isn't thereIt's the realest of the feelings that I learned I had to spareOne day I'ma melt it, when the ground is finally safeTill then the cold is keeping everything I cannot replaceAnd when I finally get there, when the war is finally doneI'ma let the winter go and stand a while in the sunLet the people that I guarded see the warmth behind the wallThe cold was just a bridge to get me through it, that was allTill then I keep it frozen, keep it focused, keep it tightThe cold blood kept me moving through the longest of the nightColdThe grind'll freeze you upLearned to feel it later, put the focus in a cupCold, that's the price of never giving up
