Sky Won't Shine

I was born where the sky won’t shine Where the saints don’t preach and the clock breaks time No heaven’s gate, no serpent lie Just a whisper in the dark sayin’ rise or die I don’t need no chains of grace I don’t beg no holy face I got fire in my breath, I got ash in my veins I walk through hell and I don’t complain They built their cross with guilt and gold Told me kneel before I’m old But I saw truth where the light won’t go In the silence where the fallen grow I don’t fear no gospel sound I don’t break when the sky falls down I got thunder in my soul, I got wrath in my bones I stand alone but I stand like stone The Devil never lied to me It was God who turned away to bleed So I took my crown from the burning tree And I wear it loud so the blind might see I don’t need no promised land I don’t bow to bloodstained hands I’m the hymn that the angels fear Lucifer walks, and I walk near I don’t fear no gospel sound I don’t break when the sky falls down I got thunder in my soul, I got wrath in my bones I stand alone but I stand like stone Yeah I was forged in the fire they dread Where the truth don’t hide and the lies play dead If salvation means I gotta crawl Then I’ll walk proud through the end of it all I don’t fear no gospel sound I don’t break when the sky falls down I got thunder in my soul, I got wrath in my bones I stand alone But I stand like stone I was born where the sky won’t shine …still I rise, every damn time