We were kids with cracks in the drywall
Shadows talking louder than love
Learned how to stay real quiet
When it all got a little too rough
Hand-me-down dreams and sirens
Bare feet on a splintered floor
Didn’t know what safe felt like
Just knew we were fighting for more
We didn’t have a way out
Didn’t have a plan
Just three hearts beating wild
Trying to understand
We came out of the fire, didn’t burn to the ground
Held onto each other when the walls fell down
Yeah, we bent, we broke, but we didn’t stay there
Turned pain into purpose, learned how to repair
She’s the head, she’s the fire, yeah she lights the way out
He’s the glue, holds the pieces when we’re covered in doubt
And I’m the one who feels everything all at once
Every scar, every word, every “you’re too much”
We were screaming in the driveway at 2AM again
Over who drank the last of the Coke like it mattered in the end
You’d go for blood, I’d go for loud, never kept it small
He’d stand there in the middle like “I hate both of y’all”
Five minutes later we’re inside like nothing even cracked
Sharing snacks and side-eyes like we didn’t just react
We were barely surviving
Now we’re standing tall
Built a life from nothing
After losing it all
We came out of the fire, didn’t burn to the ground
Held onto each other when the walls fell down
Yeah, we bent, we broke, but we didn’t stay there
Turned pain into purpose, learned how to repair
She’s the head, she’s the fire, yeah she lights the way out
He’s the glue, holds the pieces when we’re covered in doubt
And I’m the one who feels everything all at once
That’s the reason I remember what we made it from
Remember when I swore I’d never speak to you again?
Think it lasted, what— a day? Maybe less than ten?
We were dumb, we were loud, we were way too intense
But we built something real out of all that mess
They thought we’d be ghosts of the past we were born in
But we rewrote the ending they swore we’d be caught in
We came out of the fire, yeah we rose from the smoke
Every chain that they gave us yeah we shattered, we broke
Now we’re standing here breathing in a life we chose
From the ashes together we built something gold
She’s the head, she’s the fire, yeah she carved out a way
He’s the glue, kept us standing when we started to sway
And I’m the one who feels everything that’s my truth
But that’s the reason I can say we made it through
Yeah, we fought like enemies…
But we loved like we were the only ones left.
Nik_Grate
