Echoes I Refuse to Silence

I hear them… calling from the dark… I carry ghosts in every heartbeat, shadows stitched into my skin Memories like razor wire wrapped around the places I’ve been They whisper I should lay down, let the quiet pull me under But something in my marrow screams that surrender is a blunder I’ve danced with devils in the mirror, kissed the lips of my own fear Watched empires crumble in my hands and still kept standing here Every scar became a roadmap, every wound a guiding star I refuse to let the silence be the last thing that I am The echoes rise like thunder in the hollow of my chest They say the fight is over — I say I’m not finished yet These are the echoes I refuse to silence The fire in my veins, the storm behind my eyelids I am the voice that chaos couldn’t bury The spark that turns destruction into glory Echoes I refuse to silence Screaming louder than the pain and the violence I was born to break the dark and claim the dawn Watch me turn my ruins into songs I’ve walked through valleys full of bones where hope went to expire Felt the cold hand of regret trying to snuff out my fire But every time the darkness pressed, I pushed back even harder Turned my broken pieces into weapons for the battle The nights I cried alone became the fuel that made me stronger The lies they told about me only made my truth grow longer I speak in frequencies that shatter what was never meant to last A symphony of survival rising from the shattered past I was shattered… I was scattered… pieces blown across the floor But every fragment found its place and asked for more I am not what tried to kill me I am what refused to die And tonight the whole world’s gonna hear me testify These are the echoes I refuse to silence The war cry in my soul, the truth behind my eyelids I am the voice that chaos couldn’t bury The spark that turns destruction into glory Echoes I refuse to silence Burning brighter than the pain and the violence I was born to break the dark and claim the dawn This is my song… and it goes on… and on… I refuse to be silent… I refuse to be silent… Echoes… forever…