BORN AGAIN (first written version)

[INTRO] (Sparse piano, dreamy synth pad, 8 bars of atmosphere) [VERSE 1] I was buried in the soil, sleeping in the dark Pressure made me something I can't unmake Hands that tried to break me only shaped the seams Now I'm something they can't touch, even in their dreams The weight became my architecture The pain became my suture I'm not what I was before I'm the alchemy they never saw [VERSE 2] They poured their poison in, but I don't bleed it out I absorb the darkness and I turn it inside out Every scar's a facet catching light Every wound's a prism in the night I'm translucent, I'm refracting what they send I'm becoming at the breaking end I'm a mirror made of obsidian and glass Reflecting back what they don't want to see in the past [CHORUS] I'm born again, born again in the dark Crystallized from every broken part I'm born again, born again, can't go back I'm the light inside the cracks I'm born again, born again, something new Made of everything they put me through [VERSE 3] See me glowing in the shadows where I grew Luminescent from the weight of what I knew I was pressure, I was breaking, I was deep Now I'm radiant in the places where I weep The transformation happened slowly, then all at once I'm not fragile, I'm resplendent I'm not broken, I'm refracted I'm the proof of what's enacted [VERSE 4] They don't recognize the form I've taken on I'm the one they thought was gone But I'm still here, just inverted Everything they did inverted Into something that won't shatter Into something that won't scatter I'm the metamorphosis they couldn't kill I'm the birth that happens against their will [CHORUS] I'm born again, born again in the dark Crystallized from every broken part I'm born again, born again, can't go back I'm the light inside the cracks I'm born again, born again, something new Made of everything they put me through [BRIDGE] (Piano, sparse synth, whisper vocals) There's beauty in the breaking There's truth inside the aching I'm not the same, I'm not supposed to be I'm the version of myself set free [FINAL CHORUS] I'm born again, born again in the dark Crystallized from every broken part I'm born again, born again, can't go back I'm the light inside the cracks I'm born again, born again, something new Made of everything they put me through I'm born again I'm born again [OUTRO] (Piano fades, synth pad lingers) [OUTRO] (Sparse piano, synth pad fades to silence) [OUTRO] (Massive drum breakdown, fades)