I walk steady through the breaking ground While others run from the warning sound Cold river rising at my feet And somehow chaos feels like peace The silence cuts much deeper now Than storm or fire ever could An empty room, a quiet sky Can shake me more than the wild flood tide I was never made For still and gentle days [Chorus] I come alive When the waters rise When the earth begins to shake Something wakes inside Born between extremes Fire, flood and broken dreams I breathe clearer in the storm Than I ever did in calm The wind remembers what I am A soul that learned through ash and rain Too many nights between the lines Of fear and strength, of dark and light Others freeze when the world turns rough But I know how to carry enough Yet peace can feel so strange to hold Like empty hands gone cold I was never made For slow and quiet waves [Chorus] I come alive When the waters rise When the earth begins to shake Something wakes inside Born between extremes Fire, flood and broken dreams I breathe clearer in the storm Than I ever did in calm And when the noise is gone I still search for thunder Listening for the distant drums Under my skin [Final Chorus] I come alive In the wild divide Where the fire meets the rain And the shadows collide Born between extremes Carved by all I’ve seen I was shaped inside the storm And the storm still lives in me
