Deadline

Hook / Verse 1

City's dead but my pulse is screaming loud

Got a promise carved in stone and I won't back down

They say miracles need time—watch me prove them wrong

Turn impossible to done before the break of dawn

My reflection in the glass looks like a stranger's face

But this stranger's got the hunger that can't be erased

Every doubt becomes a weapon I can use to fight

I'm forging steel from pressure in the furnace of the night

Double Chorus

Workin' through the night to hit my deadline

(Hit that deadline!)

If I were an engine I'd be hittin' my redline

(Push that redline!)

Gotta work fast, it's past my bedtime

(Past my bedtime!)

Don't crash this bad boy, it'll all be fine

(All be fine!)

Workin' through the night to hit my deadline

(Gonna make it!)

If I were an engine I'd be hittin' my redline

(Can't break it!)

Gotta work fast, it's past my bedtime

(No more time!)

Don't crash this bad boy, it'll all be fine

(Yeah, we shine!)

Verse 2 (Storytelling Freestyle)

Started with a dead line, thought it was my grave

Now it's a red line that I'm crossing—watch me misbehave

Every head line in my future's written in this room

Turn that dread line into thread line weaving through the gloom

They set a lead line but I'm breaking from the pack

What they called a fed line I'm serving right back

This ain't a bed-signed prescription for the weak

I rewrote the headline: turned the deadline into peak

Performance under fire, watch the doubt disintegrate

The ticking's just a rhythm helping me create

What they meant as limits I interpret as a dare

The deadline isn't killing me—it's pulling out what's there

Double Chorus

Workin' through the night to hit my deadline

(Hit that deadline!)

If I were an engine I'd be hittin' my redline

(Push that redline!)

Gotta work fast, it's past my bedtime

(Past my bedtime!)

Don't crash this bad boy, it'll all be fine

(All be fine!)

Workin' through the night to hit my deadline

(Gonna make it!)

If I were an engine I'd be hittin' my redline

(Can't break it!)

Gotta work fast, it's past my bedtime

(No more time!)

Don't crash this bad boy, it'll all be fine

(Yeah, we shine!)

Bridge

And yeah, for just a moment when my hands start to shake

I wonder if this masterpiece is worth the toll it takes

But then the pieces lock together like they always knew

This wasn't just about the work—it's proving what I'll do

When the world says "can't be done," I turn it into "watch"

Every deadline that I conquer leaves another notch

In the legacy I'm building while they sleep in their beds

I'm out here turning "what ifs" into "I did" instead

(Beat intensifies, layered percussion)

Final Double Chorus - Elevated

Workin' through the night to hit my deadline

(Hit that deadline!)

If I were an engine I'd be hittin' my redline

(Push that redline!)

Gotta work fast, it's past my bedtime

(Past my bedtime!)

Don't crash this bad boy, it'll all be fine

(All be fine!)

Yeah, I'm blastin' through the doubt like it never existed

(Never existed!)

Every "no" becomes a "yes" when you stay persistent

(Stay persistent!)

Cross that line smiling with my head held high

(Head held high!)

Made that deadline mine—now watch me fly

(Watch me fly!)

Outro

(Echoes fade: "Deadline... redline... bedtime... all be fine...")

(Beat fades to a single heartbeat, then silence)

Cursor blinks... one... last... time.

Click. Send.

The engine stops.

But the fire? That never ends.

Because there's always one more deadline.

(One more deadline!)

And I'm always ready.

(Always ready!)