[Verse 1]
I carved my name
On a rusted shield
Watched it flake
Like a scab that never healed
Empty armor
Clanging in my chest
Couldn’t tell
If I was ghost or guest
[Pre-Chorus]
I walked through flames
Just to feel the heat
Burned my face
But not the lie beneath
[Chorus]
I am ash from my own fire
Breathing in the smoke of what I was
Let it choke
Let it cut
Let it tire
I will rise when the embers wake me up
Every scar is a sharpened wire
Twisting into something I can trust
I am ash from my own fire
Forged again for the war I must become
[Verse 2]
Tore off chains
I had learned to love
They felt safe
Like a strangling glove
In the mirror
Only fractured light
But the cracks
Drew a map to fight
[Pre-Chorus]
If I lose this skin
I will find the steel
If I break again
I will learn to kneel
[Chorus]
I am ash from my own fire
Breathing in the smoke of what I was
Let it choke
Let it cut
Let it tire
I will rise when the embers wake me up
Every scar is a sharpened wire
Twisting into something I can trust
I am ash from my own fire
Forged again for the war I must become
[Bridge]
[Drums drop to toms
Distant choir swells]
Lay my fear
On the anvil
Screaming (hey!)
Hammer down
Till the doubts stop breathing
If my faith
Is a shattered blade
I will grind
Till the edge remade
[Chorus]
I am ash from my own fire
Breathing in the smoke of what I was
Let it choke
Let it cut
Let it tire
I will rise when the embers wake me up
Every scar is a sharpened wire
Twisting into something I can trust
I am ash from my own fire
Forged again for the war I must become