Joao Liberato - Pulse Check Lyrics

[Intro]
Beep... beep... beep...
Between life and death, yeah
São Paulo nights don't forgive
This is how it went down

[Verse 1]
Red lights flash through the rain
Blood on my Nikes, feeling the pain
Lucas played me like a fool
Now I'm laid out by this surgical tool
Thought we were brothers, sharing the same streets
Till that blade showed me how betrayal feels, deep
Monitor's counting down my heartbeats
While I'm fighting demons in these blood-stained sheets

[Chorus]
Survived the night (yeah)
Survived the bite of cold steel
Now I'm back on these streets (back on these streets)
Making sure these scars heal
Trust nobody but myself now (nobody)
That's the price of staying alive
Every breath is a blessing, somehow
When you barely survive

[Verse 2]
Funk beats keep me breathing
While memories keep on bleeding
Through these hospital walls
I hear sirens, still they calling
São Paulo taught me well
Every friend could send you straight to hell
But music saved my soul that night
When darkness tried to dim my light

[Bridge]
Favela's son, I keep on grinding
While fake brothers keep on hiding
This pain becomes my power
Every second, every hour
From ICU to studio booth
Turning trauma into truth

[Chorus]
Survived the night (yeah)
Survived the bite of cold steel
Now I'm back on these streets (back on these streets)
Making sure these scars heal
Trust nobody but myself now (nobody)
That's the price of staying alive
Every breath is a blessing, somehow
When you barely survive

[Outro]
Still here, still breathing
Still creating, still believing
São Paulo nights tried to break me
But these beats, they gonna make me
Stronger than before
Watch me rise up from this hospital floor
Beep... beep... beep...
(Fade out)