Stone and Sky

[Verse 1]
Hand-me-down coat
Frayed at the wrists
Storm on the news
Storm in my fists
Kicked down doors
That were never mine
Counting my scars
Like a crooked timeline
[Chorus]
I was raised on stone and sky
Learned to bend
But not to break
Not to break
Every fall
I swore I’d fly
Even with the whole world on my back
On my back
If this is all I ever know
I’ll turn the weight into a war cry
I’m growing up in a world of fire
But I’m still singing into the night
[Verse 2]
Flat-tired bike
Racing the rain
Dinner table silence
Echoing my name
Promises thin
As the walls we patched
Hope was a match
In a room of gas
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
I’ve been the question
Never the plan
Hands in my pockets
Blood on my hands
But I hear a thousand voices
Rising from the cracks
Saying “stand your ground
We’ve got your back”
[crescendo]
Let the broken hearts be thunder
Let the choir shake the sky
Every tear becomes an ocean
Where the new days learn to rise
[guitar solo]
[Chorus]

rock, Arena rock ballad with soaring choirs and full orchestra under a gritty band: clean electric guitar and piano carry the verses, drums build from tom-heavy pulse to huge halftime slam. Choruses explode with stacked vocal harmonies, strings in octaves, and cymbal swells. Middle bridge drops to almost a hush, then rips into an epic, melodic guitar solo before a final key-lift chorus that pushes male vocals to the edge., ballad, world