Falling Ashes

Ashes rain down on sacred ground

I laid my old name in the dirt I found

Every lie I wore like skin

Peels away where the fire’s been

I walked through ruin, crowned in blame

Carried ghosts that knew my name

I bent, I broke, I kissed the flame

Just to feel something change

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If this pain is holy now

Let it carve me out

If I die before I rise

Let me open my eyes

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Let me burn, let me break

Let the past go up in flames

From the ruin, from the sound

I am reborn underground

No more kneeling, no more chains

I am not the soul I was named

Ashes fall, I stand unbound—

I am reborn, I am found

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Blood and dust in every prayer

I learned the truth from despair

What I lost still marks my skin

But it’s not where I end

I shed the crown, I shed the fear

Buried years I kept in here

If I’m broken, let it show

Cracks let resurrection grow

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Take the weight from off my chest

Let me fail, let me rest

I don’t need to be redeemed

I just need to breathe

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Let me burn, let me break

Let the past go up in flames

From the ruin, from the sound

I am reborn underground

No more kneeling, no more chains

I am not the soul I was named

Ashes fall, I stand unbound—

I am reborn, I am found

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Female: I wasn’t lost… I was becoming

Male: I didn’t fall… I was descending to rise

Both (build):

Death was never the end of me

It was the door I needed

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Let me burn, let me break

Let the past go up in flames

From the ruin, from the sound

I rise holy, I rise unowned

No more silence, no more shame

I choose fire, I choose change

Ashes rain on sacred ground—

I am reborn.

I am reborn now