We're the ones with the dirty fingernails Crawling to the surface though we're destined to fail We're the ones screaming right through the pauses Unfamiliar faces with the uns**y causes And they're right, we're second rate, but not alone, ooh-oh With sunspots in our eyes, our shoes are filled with stones They're running scared, afraid of what we'll say, ooh-oh But damn the make-or-breakers 'cause this one's for the ones who stay The ones who stay We're the ones with the dirty fingernails Crawling to the surface though we're destined to fail We're the ones screaming right through the pauses Unfamiliar faces with the uns**y causes And they're right, we're second rate, but not alone, ooh-oh With sunspots in our eyes, our shoes are filled with stones They're running scared, afraid of what we'll say, ooh-oh But damn the make-or-breakers 'cause this one's for the ones who stay The ones who stay We won't back down We won't back down We won't back down We won't back down We won't back down We won't back down We won't back down (Battered but proud) (Battered but proud) (Battered but proud)