Children of the Flame

INTRO (static) I kept waiting for the fire to save me... Then I realized... I was the fire. VERSE 1 Cold walls, long halls, lost days, slow fall Dark thoughts bounce around like they're trapped in these walls Dead sleep, cracked dreams, blank stares, bad weeks Every mirror in the house got a stranger looking at me Slow burns, sharp turns, old scars, false words Spent years trying to silence everything that hurt No light, no signs, no reason to believe Just another lonely soul trying to learn how to breathe PRE-HOOK And I... Spent my whole life searching And I... Never looked within HOOK Children of the flame Born inside the pressure Built from every mistake Every wound made us better Children of the flame We survived the firestorm Everything that tried to break us Only changed what we'd become VERSE 2 Black skies, headlights, midnight, back roads Every wrong decision still follows where I go Same fears, same ghosts, same voice in my brain But they don't hit the same when you stop running away Heart cold, eyes closed, fists tight, let go Sometimes healing looks a lot like losing control No map, no path, no guarantee Just a spark in the dark saying trust what you see PRE-HOOK And I... Can finally hear the silence And I... Know what it means HOOK Children of the flame Born inside the pressure Built from every mistake Every wound made us better Children of the flame We survived the firestorm Everything that tried to break us Only changed what we'd become BRIDGE Maybe I was never lost... Maybe I was being made... Maybe every piece of pain Was part of who I'd be someday... FINAL VERSE Now the smoke clears different Now the sky feels new Every version that I hated Led me closer to the truth The fire wasn't waiting Somewhere out beyond the dark The fire was always burning Inside my heart FINAL HOOK Children of the flame Born inside the pressure Built from every mistake Every wound made us better Children of the flame We survived the firestorm Everything that tried to break us Only changed what we'd become OUTRO (static) No prophets... No saviors... Just us...