Hook (Myer Clarity):

Days go by, you win, you lose

You’ve fallen down, you’re on the ground

And if you fall, you get back up and clean your face

‘Coz Rome wasn’t built in a day

Rome wasn’t built in a day

I don’t know what else to say

My empire’s here to stay

‘Coz Rome wasn’t built in a day

Verse 1 (Cee):

And nothing ever is

I got some questions but the message is to mind your biz

I took the lesson, turning left when bustin' right the shit

So I remembered why I'm here and staying hype to spit, these hazy nights with Tiff

We at thе crib, reinforcing the foundation

Frustrated but thе ups is too ill just to downplay it

Every brick we securing comes equipped with insurance

If we slip, we enduring, take a hit, we record it

And the clique, we exhausted, still we get on with it

We soldiers of the struggle, in the mission, we ain't aborting shit

Nobody helping, not a soul came to the rescue

We was forced to bust the windows of the doors we couldn't get through

Now they checking for us, a decade later and we ready for 'em

TMF the forces, proletariat and nobles adoring

Share the calling, we Augustus, we are Caesar

Montreal is modern Rome, either you with us or it's treason, ‘coz the

Hook (Myer Clarity):

Days go by, you win, you lose

You’ve fallen down, you’re on the ground

And if you fall, you get back up and clean your face

‘Coz Rome wasn’t built in a day

Rome wasn’t built in a day

I don’t know what else to say

My empire’s here to stay

‘Coz Rome wasn’t built in a day

Verse 2 (Myer Clarity):

Pause for a moment I need to take a breath

All I imagined, what’s that you say again?

Coliseum built from a paper sketch

We all start somewhere, have them silver spoons made you rich?

I sit back, watching it come to life

The product of all these nights, from trauma to all this triumphs

Thought I was all bark? Under dog got a bite

Greatest flaws now set me a part from the other guys

All my people in sight, walk with me through the night

Hang on every single syllable I speak through the mic

And if you see yourself in me then we can really unite

And make elitists lose they heads when they get guillotined, right?

It’s like, thank Cee for granting me, this moment of Clarity

This moment of honesty, built more than a spot for me

Hilroy to a property, shit, boy, I’ma prodigy

Built Rome in an hour, you’d kill just to live your life like me

Hook (Myer Clarity):

Days go by, you win, you lose

You’ve fallen down, you’re on the ground

And if you fall, you get back up and clean your face

‘Coz Rome wasn’t built in a day

Rome wasn’t built in a day

I don’t know what else to say

My empire’s here to stay

‘Coz Rome wasn’t built in a day