Built From ‘Never

They said be realistic, kid, that dream's too tall Find a safer hill, you're not built to climb the wall I had hand-me-down hope and a beat-up car Little map in my head with a big red star Family dinners fell across exam Every house that go and was a quiet slam Maybe let it go, get a steady check I just smiled, wrote songs on the back of the dead Every no got stitched in my sleeve Every you won't became you'll see I was built from I kept one match in a gasoline heart All those times you said not now, not ever Look at me now, I was built from never Everything I am, nights so broke that the lights went black Slept on a floor, wrote a promise back If this is the bottom, I'll carve my name So I can recognize the start of the climb Some day every door's slammed Right in my face just pushed me harder Toward this place, cause I was built from never Too back wrong, but somehow better Turn those doubts to a backbone beam Held up the roof of a company from never This is for the nights that look like loss For every yell I nail to my cross For the empty rooms and the silent phones For the fights I had with my own bones Every time the doubt said this is the end I took one more step, just to spite it again Now I'm built from never, stubborn heart, steel thread tether Every you can't that you ever threw If you see me shy, I know the polish came From every eye roll, joke and shame I didn't get here cause the road was better I learned to walk on nails, built from never Yeah, I'm built from never, storm ain't come back you