Long Way Up

[Verse 1]

They told me no so many times I learned to hear it as a warm-up

Every door that slammed just taught my knuckles how to hold up

I was writing in the dark with a battery on low

Believing in a version of myself I couldn't show

Nobody hands you nothing, you just gotta out-last the doubt

Keep a quiet kind of faith when the loud is trying to shout

I stopped counting all the setbacks, started counting every step