Intro

(Fast, jagged guitar riff, bass drives, drums crash in from the first bar)

Verse 1

I was a free punk — wind in my jacket, mud on my sneakers

Lived by my own rules, never chased another's answers

Nobody set the limits, nobody pulled me back

I just tore down the highway, blind to every sign and track

Pre-Chorus

Then you appeared — like a flash cutting through the night

And for the first time I wanted to be quieter, a little more polite

I tried. I caved. I stitched myself along the seams

Thought: for you I'll be someone else, I'll fix it all, I'll make it clean

Chorus

But the punk in my soul won't die — not with a kick, not with a scream, not with force

It lives where the pulse beats loud, where everything's real and alive, of course

I changed myself for you, I bent, I sanded down my edge

But if you can't see that — then it was all for nothing, all misread