There’s a trick in the ring

A way to make it through

Make it through the round

You imagine the punch

Hitting you in the face

Because then when it happens

In the real world

Under the lights

In the surrounding smoke

It won’t hurt as much

You can handle it

But no one tells you

It doesn’t work

No matter how often

You run through it in your head

It still hurts like hell

Because there are no tricks

Pain is pain

And it comes all the same.