Waking through the fire

[Verse 1]
One hard truth and the room turns cold
No more glitter on the lies I told
Eyes wide open, I can see the break
It hurts like hell, but I’d rather wake

Smoke clears out and the walls stand still
No more bending to a borrowed thrill
Every step keeps my feet below
In the only world I need to know

[Pre-Chorus]
Let it cut, let it sting
Let it strip me of everything
If the dark is where I start
I will walk it with my heart

[Chorus]
Standing, standing in the light
Even when it burns, it’s right
I won’t trade my soul away
For a dream that couldn’t stay

Keep your silver-painted skies
I don’t need a sweet disguise
If I’m falling, let it break
What was false—I’d rather wake

[Verse 2]
No more voices through the haze
No more crowns in empty plays
No more doors that speak in code
Just this blood and bone and road

Fear still talks, but I talk back
I don’t need another track
Every scar I never chose
Showed me where the real thing grows

[Pre-Chorus]
Let it press, let it prove
I am more than what I use
If it hurts, then let it show
I’m alive enough to know

[Chorus]
Standing, standing in the light
Even when it burns, it’s right
I won’t trade my soul away
For a dream that couldn’t stay

Keep your silver-painted skies
I don’t need a sweet disguise
If I’m falling, let it break
What was false—I’d rather wake

[Bridge]
No hand lifts
No rush hits
Just me and the truth I feared
No blur now
No numb now
Just the sound of my own voice here

And I shake
And I ache
But I don’t disappear
What is real
Can still heal
When I let it pull me near

[Final Chorus]
Now I’m rising from the night
Not through fantasy, but fight
All the chaos in my chest
Didn’t kill me, made me honest

I was falling just to flee
Now I stand and answer me
Lost in dreams, but now I know
Roots can reach where wings won’t go

[Outro]
One deep breath, I stay again
Not above it—through the end
If the sky won’t take me high
I’ll still learn to live, not hide