The Gift

Verse 1

They said a gift should glitter—wrapped in light

But mine came quiet, breathing in the black

A thread of sound against my throat at night

A name I couldn’t lose… a path to find my way back

Pre-Chorus

In the dreamline, in the thin glass air

I felt it settle under skin and bone

Not a prayer I learned—more like a flare

Burning when I’m bleeding, when I’m alone

Chorus

I was gifted—

a will that won’t go quiet

In the day, in the dead of night

I was gifted—

the strength to keep my eyes open

Knowing the dark can’t live forever in the light

Verse 2

They tried to write me smaller with their words

Hands like thunder, shame like freezing rain

But my spirit learned to breathe through shattered nerves

And their pity, and their poison, couldn’t make a home of pain

Pre-Chorus

More precious than the gold you count and keep

Stronger than the iron you pretend to be

It isn’t touch, it isn’t taste—it’s deeper

It won’t survive where love is starved and empty

Chorus

I was gifted—

a will that won’t go quiet

In the day, in the dead of night

I was gifted—

the strength to keep my eyes open

Knowing the dark can’t live forever in the light

Bridge

It’s beyond your sight—dark or bright

Held inside my chest like stormglass

In my heart, my head, in every part of me

A binding strength, a vow that doesn’t crack

Enduring through the hate, enduring through the pain

Final Chorus / Outro

I was gifted—

a will that won’t go quiet

In the day, in the dead of night

I was gifted—

and I wear it like a halo made of shadow

My soul… my faith… the fire I hold inside