© Copyright 2024 - Peter PHIR! In the steel and smoke I’m tired Still I fight Black road Cold rail No sleep Red light Dark streets talk back When my boots hit hard Every shadow wants blood Every breath leaves sparks I’m tired of the pressure Tired of the weight But I’m not the prey here No, I bare my teeth One breath Locked chest Jaw set Move yet I bite the night I forge my light I bite the night I forge my light Tired, not gone Scarred, still right I bite the night I forge my light I’m tired of the blame For the things I didn’t do Tired of being shoved Like I’m made to lose Tired of “give it up” Like I owe the dark respect Yeah, sure, I’ll quit the hurt Right after hell sends a cheque Cracked-steel cadence, black-wheel panic, backbeat static in my ribs Snap-jaw, spark-flood, grind-blood, rise up Rise up Now the steel’s in me In the spine In the will What used to cage me Answers still I see sparks in the dark And they answer my name Not a sun from above My own hand makes flame I bite the night I forge my light I bite the night I forge my light Bruised, not broke I still ignite I bite the night I forge my light I walked through fire With a deadweight heart Through wreckage, ash And the split-apart Lost what I loved Couldn’t call it done Dragged that grief like iron Under every ruined sun But look now The metal changed It’s not the chain It’s what I raise Not what pinned me down Not what made me bleed It’s the blade of my voice It’s the thing I wield I bite the night I forge my light I bite the night I forge my light I’ve walked through the fire Now watch me ignite I’m tired, but I’m standing And I own the night From broken steel and smoke We can build what survives I bite the night I forge my light I bite the night I forge my light © Copyright 2024 - Peter PHIR!
