[Intro] Every morning, I rise. Every evening, I die. The sun calls me from stone. The night takes me home. [Verse 1] I wake beneath a burning sky, gold in my mane, fire in my eyes. I have no yesterday to mourn, no tomorrow waiting to be born. The desert changes. I remain. Then darkness comes across the plain. The stars arrive, the daylight dies— and stone remembers what I leave behind. [Chorus] Rise and die, rise and die. Born with the morning, turned to stone by the night. I am neither darkness, I am neither light. I live in the middle. I live in between. [Verse 2] You came carrying yesterday, all its ghosts beneath your skin. You stare so hard at what's ahead you miss the world you're standing in. A whim is wind—it comes, it goes. A wish has roots beneath the stone. Know what you want before you chase it. Know your heart before you name it. [Chorus] Rise and die, rise and die. Born with the morning, turned to stone by the night. I am neither darkness, I am neither light. I live in the middle. I live in between. [Bridge] Take the Sword of the Mind. Let it cut clean through the haze. Cut the hunger from the wanting. Cut the fear from what you crave. Ask yourself beneath the thought: “Is this what I truly want— or only what I want right now?” [Verse 3] You are the reader. You are the hand. You shape the world you think you understand. But every choice becomes a road, and every road becomes a world. Do not follow every whisper just because it calls you forward. [Final Chorus] Rise and die, rise and die. Every beginning carries an ending inside. I am neither darkness, I am neither light. I live in the middle. I live in between. [Outro] Tomorrow, I will rise. Tonight, I die. And between those two truths— I am.
