10/13/2026
Someone messaged me a while back asking for the lyrics to a certain version of "still standing" before I added onto it making it into "Different Then The Rest", but I cant remember who asked...
Sorry,
I never seen your message for so long but hopefully you'll see it here!
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Started from the bottom where the ground was hard as stone
Every scar I carry I had earned it on my own
I’ve been knocked down more times than I can count on both hands
Dirt on my face, blood in my mouth, couldn’t see the damn plan
They told me I was worthless, said I’d never make it far
Now I’m climbing out the darkness, turning wounds into a scar
They said I wouldn’t make it, said I’d never amount to nothing
But every time they wrote me off I came back double clutching
The pressure tried to break me tried to fold me tried to see me crack
But everything that bent me only taught me to fight back
Failure ain’t the fall it’s staying down when you hit the pavement
I turned my scars into art
My pain into a statement
I was buried in the dirt where nobody could see
But that’s exactly where the diamond learns what it’s supposed to be
While they were throwing stones I was building foundations
Now they wonder how I rose up from the basement
They don’t see the nights I couldn’t sleep, thoughts racing in my head
They don’t see the nights I cried, the doubt that tried to break me dead
Pain don’t build character it reveals what’s already there
And pressure don’t create nothing it just shows you who can bear
It takes pressure to make a diamond
All that weight upon your chest
I’m still standing
I’m still breathing
Every scar is proof I’m blessed
It takes pressure to make a diamond
Every struggle, every test
They can bury me alive but I’ll
Dig up shining from the stress
I’m still standing
I’m still swinging
When the bell rings
I don’t rest
No white flag, no surrender
Pressure makes me be my best
I done lost more than I gained, seen friends turn into ghosts
Trusted people with my heart, they’re the ones who hurt the most
I’ve been betrayed by people I would’ve died for
Lied to by the ones who swore they’d ride for the cause
Had my back against the wall with nowhere left to go
That’s when something clicked inside and I became more than I know
They measure you by failures, by the times you fell apart
But not the mornings that you stitched yourself and restarted your heart
Never asked for handouts
Never begged for validation
Just kept my head down and worked through every complication
I ain’t special
I ain’t gifted
I just refused to fu***ng quit
When the world kept throwing punches, I just learned to take the hit
I learned to weaponize the darkness and the struggle
Turned my trauma into fuel, made my enemies all humble
Now I’m standing in the aftermath of everything I’ve been
All the pressure that could’ve killed me made me bulletproof within
I’m still standing I’m still breathing
Every scar on my chest is proof I’m still believing
That the war ain’t over ’til I say it’s finished
You can pile on all that pressure
I’ma rise up in minutes
It takes pressure to make a diamond
All that weight upon your chest
When you think that you can’t climb it
That’s when you become your best
They want you comfortable, they want you soft
They want you settled for whatever you got
But I was made in fire
I was forged in pain
I let the pressure shape me and never broke the chain
Your past don’t define where your future is headed
Every champion you know got a closet of L’s
Rock bottom’s just a place that you push up from
When they ask you how you made it, tell ’em: “I’m not done”
Let me speak to anybody feelin’ hopeless right now
Thinkin’ that the weight is just too heavy to fight out
I’ve been in that valley where the shadows won’t leave
Where anxiety’s a monster and depression won’t sleep
So when you’re feeling like you’re buried and you’re six feet underground
When the weight of expectation got you pinned down to the ground
Remember diamonds don’t form easy in the comfort of the light
They’re made miles beneath the surface where there’s nothing but the fight
Maybe you’re not broken, maybe you’re just being refined
Maybe all this pressures just preparing you for what you’re gonna find .
The comeback is always stronger than the setback you been through
That diamond in the rough?
That diamond’s always been you
I’m still standing
I’m still breathing
Every scar on my chest is proof I’m still believing
No white flag, no surrender, no retreat
Still standing tall on these two feet
It takes pressure to make a diamond
Every struggle, every test
They tried to bury me but they forgot
I’m built different than the rest
