Hold me down, but I will persist

Coming around, you better read my lips

Beating the devil with a burning fist

Why my demon's doing this?

Hold me down, but I will persist

Coming around, you better read my lips

Beating the devil with a burning fist

Try your tricks, I'm gonna flip the script

I met a man on the side of the road

Came back from Iraq, foreclosed his home

I met a man, and his dead his half deaf

Took a bullet from a friendly drown

Post-traumatic, and he's all alone

Pawned his Purple Heart for a loan

Got two things that he can call mine

A faded black marker, and a cardboard sign

How this homeless seems so strange

The wounded hero begging me for change

Just hell on earth, or a shallow grave

Wish one of us would first be saved

Behind enemy lines

He said "Oh I'm dying inside"

We all get down, we stumble and fall

But for him one shot saves it all

Lord have mercy on the man

Who sold his soul for a little black gold

Now he's holding onto to all that he's got

He ain't fighting a thing, everything changed with one shot

Hold me down, but I will persist

Coming around, you better read my lips

Beating the devil with a burning fist

Why my demon's doing this?

Hold me down, but I will persist

Coming around, you better read my lips

Beating the devil with a burning fist

Try your tricks, I'm gonna flip the script

The first week when he came back home

Wife says he's changed, so apart they've grown

He started drinking to hide the sorrow

One shot through the neck, and no more sipping though

Bottle up the pain til he's red in the eyes

Cause he's holding all the tears inside

Now night terrors and he don't know why

He's hard to love, and God knows she's tried

Said won some battles but you lost this war

One more drink, and I'm out that door

You're not the same, as you were before

I was passed out on the basement floor

She knows he's got

A new love on lock

In a silver flask he's hit the wall

One more shot he's lost it all

Lord have mercy on the man

Who's drowned his love away, for a little bit more

Now he's holding onto to all that he's lost

He ain't fighting a thing, everything changed with one shot

Hold me down, but I will persist

Coming around, you better read my lips

Beating the devil with a burning fist

Why my demon's doing this?

Hold me down, but I will persist

Coming around, you better read my lips

Beating the devil with a burning fist

Try your tricks, I'm gonna flip the script

Take my last few dollars

And scratch off' that I bought

Just one shot at redemption

But it's all I got

So take my last few dollars

And scratch off' that I bought

Just one shot at redemption

But it's all you got

I said Lord have mercy on the man

Who turned his back on you, as his one shot fell through

Now he's holding back to the love that he knew

Gotta follow faith everything will change with one shot

Hold me down, but I will persist

Coming around, you better read my lips

Beating the devil with a burning fist

Why my demon's doing this?

Hold me down, but I will persist

Coming around, you better read my lips

Beating the devil with a burning fist

Try your tricks, I'm gonna flip the script

One shot