[Verse 1: Sam Mackey]

Thanks for listening to take it or leave it

I'm an artist for my own benefit

Not so you can worship it or spit on it

Take what you need from it

And if that means nothing then keep walking

Your validation is not a price I require anymore

I require an open-mind and if not there's the door

I will not be the receiving end of your self-hate core

Everything has been taken from me

My eyes I can't see

My heart I can't feel the music's beat

I lost all materialistic

And I became another female statistic

The physical violation

Caused a mental assassination

I sunk deeper and deeper into isolation

Turned my back, bitter to the population

I attacked myself

Took a huge hit to the health

But the saddest part is I can't laugh

My smile is my brightest feature

And he took that from me

I thought I was the monster

I thought I was the creature

But you know what the best part is?

I didn't reach for the liquor store

The needle or the pipe that would have left me dead on the bathroom floor

Cause I will not let him win

I will not let him take everything I have worked so damn hard for

You see these tattoos on my middle fingers?

They are the anchors that keep me grounded from the memories that still linger

One on the left one on the right

To keep me balanced cause I know my dreams of peace are still in sight

And finally I got these tattoos

For the classic middle finger salute

Here I stand on stage stronger than ever screaming out fuck you!

So go ahead, take it or leave it

Take everything I have

But you cannot have the skin on my back

The sores on my feet

And the tears I worked so hard to weep