Lyric

Throat full of gravel

Ash in my lungs

Feet cut open

From the road I’ve run

Every step a question

Every breath a dare

“Turn around, you’ve proven

All you had to prove” — that voice is everywhere

But I keep walking through the dark that wants to drown me

Hands are shaking, but there’s fire in the fall

Every scar is just a map that’s burned upon me

Pointing past the wreckage, where the brave ones crawl

I taste the iron in the doubt that almost crowns me

Still I rise, still I rise through the ache

Glory isn’t gold, it’s the truth that finds you

When you’re too tired

To break

Storm in my ribcage

Hail in my head

All my quiet failures

Flicker by the bed

Shadows on the ceiling

Spell “you won’t heal”

But there’s a smaller whisper

Saying, “hurt is how you learn what’s real”

So I keep walking through the dark that wants to drown me

Hands are shaking, but there’s fire in the fall

Every scar is just a map that’s burned upon me

Pointing past the wreckage, where the brave ones crawl

I taste the iron in the doubt that almost crowns me

Still I rise, still I rise through the ache

Glory isn’t gold, it’s the truth that finds you

When you’re too tired

To break

There’s a gate made of mornings

Past this sleepless night

Where the weight I’ve been hauling

Turns to weightless light

All the tears I buried

Bloom along the way

Fields of what I carried

Calling out my name (Oh)

So I keep walking through the dark that tried to drown me

Hands still shaking, but there’s fire in the fall

Every scar that once was shame now burns upon me

Like a banner in the sky for every time I crawled

I taste the iron in the doubt that couldn’t crown me

Still I rise, still I rise for my sake

Glory isn’t there to end the struggle

It’s the moment

You choose not

To break