“When the Ground Won’t Break”

Dreams… they come in shadows, Whispering secrets you don’t dare speak awake. They show you wings you never knew you had… And the fall you pray you’ll never take. I’m running through the echoes Of a mind I can’t outrun, Where every fear I buried Comes to stare me down as one. My past is in the corners, My future’s in the flame— This battlefield inside me Knows my footsteps, knows my name. I see the sky crack open wide, And something calls me in… Am I escaping from the truth, Or flying from my sins? ’Cause in my dreams I rise, I fly— To the places I can’t reach alive. But what if I fall? What if I dive? They say the ground will take your life. But I keep jumping into night ’Cause maybe that’s the only way My soul learns how to fight… When the ground don’t break. There’s a mirror made of memories That I try not to see through, ’Cause every time I look inside I find another truth. The faces that I’ve lost Still pull me like the tide— And the ones I fear becoming Are the ones that never died. I walk the line of who I am, And who I used to be… This dreamland is a warning, Or a map to set me free. ’Cause in my dreams I rise, I fly— To the places I can’t reach alive. But what if I fall? What if I dive? They say the ground will take your life. But I keep jumping into night ’Cause maybe that’s the only way My soul learns how to fight… When the ground don’t break. Are these the ghosts of all my fears? Or the truth beneath my skin? Every fall I take in darkness Is a place I’ve never been. But I’d rather hit the shadows Than never learn to soar— If the fall is just the warning… Then the rise is what I’m fighting for. Yeah, in my dreams I rise, I fly— On the hopes I buried deep inside. And if I fall, I fall alive, ’Cause every warning has a sign. I keep leaping into night ’Cause courage ain’t a gift you take— It’s the fire born in flight… When the ground don’t break. Dreams ain’t here to kill you… They’re here to wake you.