Ashes

Verse 1

I was wandering in circles calling it a path

Gave away my compass, couldn’t do the math

Played the fool so long I started wearing it like skin

Let the wrong ones in and let them rearrange the wind

Told myself it’s love when it was just a leash

Every line I drew, I let them cross with ease

What you allow will continue — learned that hard and late

Standing in the rubble of a life I helped create

Pre-Chorus

But the breaking point is still a point

And the ground is still the ground

And when there’s nothing left to lose

That’s the first time you are found

Chorus

I picked up every piece with my own two hands

No one’s coming, baby — finally understand

Didn’t need a savior, I needed a mirror

Every scar a map that’s getting clearer, clearer

Broken open, not broken down

Lost my old self just to find a new crown

Rising from the wreckage, quiet and reborn

You can’t stop the dawn

Verse 2

Started asking questions I’d been too afraid to face

Who am I without the weight of trying to keep pace

Found a voice inside the silence I had never heard

Turned my pain to pages, turned my wounds to words

Didn’t recognize the woman looking back at me

But she was stronger, she was sharper, she was finally free

You don’t find yourself in comfort, you find yourself in fire

And the version forged in flames is the one that climbs higher

Pre-Chorus

And the breaking point is still a point

And the ground is still the ground

When there’s nothing left to lose

That’s the first time you are found

Chorus

I picked up every piece with my own two hands

No one’s coming, baby — finally understand

Didn’t need a savior, I needed a mirror

Every scar a map that’s getting clearer, clearer

Broken open, not broken down

Lost my old self just to find a new crown

Rising from the wreckage, quiet and reborn

You can’t stop the dawn

Bridge

I was ash

I was hollow

I was everything I swore I’d never swallow

But I stayed

And I gathered

Every fragment, every fracture, every shatter

And I learned that being lost is just the start

Of the excavation of your own heart

I wasn’t falling apart —

I was falling

Into place

Final Chorus

I picked up every piece with my own two hands

Built a whole new world from the ruins where I stand

I don’t need a savior, I became the mirror

And the woman looking back keeps getting clearer

Broken open, not broken down

Traded in my wreckage for an unbreakable crown

Rising from the ashes, sovereign and reborn —

Indomitable

You can’t stop the dawn