[Intro – Spoken / Low Wind and Distant Drums] When the world below us burned… We did not beg the ashes for mercy. We climbed. Root by root. Scar by scar. Toward the storm above. [Verse 1 – Fast Rap / Dark Build] I woke where the roots wrap around the dead, With a storm in my chest and a curse in my head. Black earth breathing like it knew my name, Old wounds glowing with a blue rune flame. The ground was split, the sky was torn, I crawled through the place where grief gets born. Every branch above looked too far to reach, Every ghost below tried to sharpen its teeth. But I heard the old ones under the stone, Saying, “Child, you were never meant to rot alone. Put your hands on the bark, put your fear in the mud, Climb with your scars, climb with your blood.” So I dug my nails into Yggdrasil’s spine, Left pain in the bark like a battle sign. No golden ladder, no easy road, Just a broken soul with a thunderload. [Pre-Chorus – Chant / War Drums Rising] For the roots that held, For the names that stayed, For the hands that fought So we’d see this day. For the dead who sing When the night gets deep, We carry their fire And we do not sleep. [Chorus – Screamed / Full Band] CLIMB! WHEN THE EARTH BREAKS OPEN! CLIMB! WHEN THE SKY TURNS BLACK! WE WERE BORN FROM THE ROOTS OF THUNDER! WE DON’T FALL! WE DON’T TURN BACK! SIDE BY SIDE! BRANCH AND BONE! WE FACE THE STORM NO LONGER ALONE! LET KINGDOMS BURN! LET FALSE CROWNS CRACK! OUR LOVE IS THE LIGHTNING THAT STRIKES THEM BACK! [Verse 2 – Aggressive Rap / Heavier] I found you halfway up the world’s old tree, With torn-up wings but your spirit free. Eyes full of stars, hands full of flame, Still standing tall after oceans of pain. You said, “I know what the darkness does. It tells you ruin is all you are. It names your scars like prison bars, Then laughs when you forget the stars.” But you still climbed. You still fought. You still carried every lesson they thought Would break your breath and bend your spine, But you turned that hurt into sacred signs. So we climbed past serpents with venom tongues, Past old shame with iron lungs. Past every kingdom built on lies, Past every coward in a cheap disguise. They threw stones from their paper thrones, But we made stepping paths from broken bones. They screamed, “Come down!” We screamed, “Come see! Love grows wild in the world’s old tree!” [Breakdown – Screamed / Brutal Half-Time] I AM NOT THE ASH THEY MADE! I AM NOT THE GRAVE THEY NAMED! ROOTS IN BLOOD! FIRE IN BREATH! WE CLIMB THROUGH PAIN! WE OUTRUN DEATH! NO CROWN! NO CHAIN! NO KING! NO LIE! CAN DRAG US DOWN FROM THE STORM-LIT SKY! [Bridge – Emotional / Melodic Rap] And when my hands start shaking loose, When the old hurt tightens like a noose, I’ll hear your voice through the freezing rain, Saying, “Hold on. We are more than pain.” I’ll hear the ancestors beneath our feet, In every root where the dark things sleep. They’ll say, “We fought through hunger, grief, and flame, Now carry us forward. Remember our names.” So I will climb for the ones before, For every soul that survived the war. I will climb for the love we found, When every cruel voice said, “Stay on the ground.” We are not buried. We are not done. We are the storm climbing toward the sun. [Final Chorus – Screamed / Layered Gang Vocals] CLIMB! WHEN THE EARTH BREAKS OPEN! CLIMB! WHEN THE SKY TURNS BLACK! WE WERE BORN FROM THE ROOTS OF THUNDER! WE DON’T FALL! WE DON’T TURN BACK! SIDE BY SIDE! BRANCH AND BONE! WE FACE THE STORM NO LONGER ALONE! LET KINGDOMS BURN! LET FALSE CROWNS CRACK! OUR LOVE IS THE LIGHTNING THAT STRIKES THEM BACK! [Outro – Whispered / Fading Drums and Wind] Root by root. Scar by scar. We climb beyond What broke our hearts. The dead still sing. The ravens fly. Love holds the branch Between earth and sky. We rise. We roar. We remember. Forever.
