Waking through the fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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