Strike First — UNWRITTEN

Everyone in this city wants to know how I'm still breathing.
Simple.
I never let them go first.

Garnath taught me young. You wait your turn, you don't get one.

Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ah Ah Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Wet stone and gutter light, the city eats its own
Three hundred years of grinding men down to the bone
Learned the alleys, learned the roofs, learned every way to run
Learned the only ones who live are the ones who move first

I don't draw it slow, I don't give you the speech
You won't hear the step behind you, you won't feel the reach
One breath, one blade, one name come off the list
You go down with your hand still reaching for your bitch

You came for the quiet girl, the one who looks away
Should've checked which one of us was built to make you pay

STRIKE FIRST, You never saw it coming
No warning, no mercy, no second time around

FUCKING STRIKE FIRST,
I'm the last thing that you'll be knowing
By the time you hear me you're already in the ground

You never saw it coming

They send the hammer and they send the knife
Think a price up on my head is gonna end my life
I have buried better men than the ones you sent tonight
Garnath's full of ghosts who thought that they could fight

I don't hate you, that's the thing, it isn't even rage
I'm just the quiet sitting at the bottom of the cage
You opened up the door, you said my name out loud
Now I'm the only thing that's walking out of this crowd

You came for the quiet girl, the one who looks away
Should've checked which one of us was built to make you pay

LOUDER, I SAID FUCKING LOUDER! Ahahahahah

STRIKE FIRST,
You never saw it coming
No warning, no mercy, no second time around

MOTHER FUCKING STRIKE FIRST,
I'm the last thing that you'll be knowing
By the time you hear me you're already in the ground

Nysera, make 'em bleed!

A man found me starving, taught me how to kill
Named me Shadow, said it like it meant something real
Then the Guild put coin on me and sent him through the door

He taught me every move I had,
So I knew the one he never saw

The good man swore that he believed me. Then he did his job.

Nobody's coming. Nobody ever was.
So let the whole world burn. I was forged in worse.

STRIKE FIRST,
You never saw it coming
No warning, no mercy, no second time around

BITCH! STRIKE FIRST,
I'm the last thing that you'll be knowing
By the time you hear me you're already in the ground

Strike first.
Strike first.
You never saw it coming

...Told you. Ahahahaha