Did It On Your Own Lyrics

I used to know her from the streets

She was full of personality

Another tragedy

We thought would be a casualty

She started out by using drugs as a medicine

But Oxycontin graduated to the heroine

She started dating this loser that used to cheat on her

Bruises all on her face from where he'd beat on her

He'd run out of his supply and give her crap for it

Go and make her sell her body on the track for it

A couple junkies on the couch getting comatose

Until the day she barely survived an overdose

And that was that cause she had finally had enough with it

Instead of buying more drugs she bought a bus ticket

He can't control her anymore it was over

The second she surprised him and decided to get sober

A simple choice and a prisoner is free

Now she living out of state tryna finish her degree

So many more who grew up in the same scene

Live the party life every night and became fiends, and

Now they're dead or in jail, but not her

Rumor has it she got three years clean

Everyone doubted you

But you proved everyone so wrong

You did it on your own, no help

You did it on your own

You did it on your own, no help

I'm proud of you

Cause you turned your whole life around

You did it on your own, no help

You did it on your own

You did it on your own, no help

I remember him giving up, He's so afraid to fail

His eyes were all sunken in and his skin was very pail

He lived three blocks away from where life was a fairytale

Grew up on Discourage Ave where shit was really real

A young dude roaming the streets, who'd never eat

Cause his momma ain't put food in the fridge in seven weeks

He'd hitchhike from Maine to the city that never sleeps

Just to get a couple rocks where he knew he could get 'em cheap

They'd call him a lost cause said he's never prevail

Said that his future was to wind up dead or in jail

He got a job in the city and found sobriety and

Hit the gym to get rid of all his anxiety and

His junky friends all mad he lived comfortably

Always hating on him misery loves company and

All that negativity he paid it no mind

He's doing real good and he'll do better in time

Everyone doubted you

But you proved everyone so wrong

You did it on your own, no help

You did it on your own

You did it on your own, no help

I'm proud of you

Cause you turned your whole life around

You did it on your own, no help

You did it on your own

You did it on your own, no help

Everyone doubted you

But you proved everyone so wrong

You did it on your own, no help

You did it on your own

You did it on your own, no help

I'm proud of you

Cause you turned your whole life around

You did it on your own, no help

You did it on your own

You did it on your own, no help