Lyric

“hold the bitter… breathe the fire…”

I’ve been treading on the edges where the cold winds settle in

Saving every sharp reminder like a spark beneath my skin

Carving stories in the silence where the nights refused to end

Let the frost turn into lesson, let the hunger be my friend

All the weight I carried inward

Beats a rhythm through my chest

Every bruise became a signal

Of a heart that wouldn’t rest

I rise with the Ashborne Radiance

Lighting truths I used to fear

Made a fire from all my failures

‘Cause they burn the brightest here

I keep tasting bitter memory

Till it melts into a vow

In the glow of Ashborne Radiance

I’m unbreaking now

“radiance… turn it… brighter…”

I stitched fragments of the moments that had nearly split me wide

Wore them close beneath my jacket like a pulse I couldn’t hide

Every locked door, every warning, etched itself into my stride

’Til the breaking made me stronger than the part of me that died

Every echo from the losses

Found a tempo in my bones

All the nights I stumbled wordless

Now resound in steady tones

I rise with the Ashborne Radiance

Lighting truths I used to fear

Made a fire from all my failures

‘Cause they burn the brightest here

I keep tasting bitter memory

Till it melts into a vow

In the glow of Ashborne Radiance

I’m unbreaking now

Lay me in the fading cinders

Let them sting the way they must

I will shape the heat that lingers

Turn the damage into trust

When the morning asks what forged me

I will answer without shame—

I was tempered in the shadows

Now I carry out their flame

I rise with the Ashborne Radiance

Light rebuilt from breaking down

Every fire-born revelation

Lifts me higher off the ground

I keep tasting bitter memory

Till it sweetens into now

In the glow of Ashborne Radiance

I am forged—

And I avow