Take It From Me

Take it from me, I’ve burned through belief My shadow still bargains with the warmth and the grief Every scar’s a sentence I refuse to repeat You can trace my fall, but you can’t take it from me I built my truth in the glare of the doubt Tasted the static when the signal cut out The noise was a flood but I learned how to breathe A whisper of courage caught under my teeth If faith is a gamble, I’ve played every hand Still bluffing the storm, trying to understand Take it from me, I crawled through the fire The embers remember every flicker of desire Every loss is a code that I’m doomed to repeat You can steal the spark, but you can’t take it from me I’m not redemption, I’m the echo between The silence that waits and the sound that redeems I found my pulse in the static and haze A promise to stand in the moment it fades Take it from me, I crawled through the fire The embers remember every flicker of desire Every loss is a code that I’m doomed to repeat You can steal the spark, but you can’t take it from me Take it from me! I’ve lived every lie and I still feel the burn. Take it from me! I still feel the burn where the truth used to sing. You want control? You want the key? Can’t take it from me. You pull the thread, you break the seam… Can’t take it from me. Take it from me! Go on—try— —you can’t take it from me.