Light After The Storm

[low throat hum

Steady Hengereg pulse]

Ho-oooh

Ho-oooh

Breath in my chest

Dust in my teeth

I walked through the black wind

Face cut by the frozen rain

Every name they called me

Echoed like a rusted chain

Fire in a tin cup

Hands shaking

I still drank

Carrying a small hope

Hidden where my ribs sank

I was talking to the dark sky

"Is this all I get?"

Then a crack in all that thunder

Showed me light I won’t forget (hey!)

Here comes the sunlight after the storm

(ahh-ahh) it finds me

It finds me

Warm on the scars that kept me torn

(ahh-ahh) reminds me

Reminds me

I was made to bend

Not break

Heart still beating through the ache

Here comes the sunlight after the storm

I’m still here

I’m reborn

Mud on my old boots

Footprints where the flood had run

Every heavy secret

Bleeding as the clouds came undone

I said my own true name

Louder than the cracking sky

Felt it in my backbone

Heard the fear say goodbye

Every shadow tried to hold me

Wrap around my breath

But this bright gold on my shoulders

Pulled me back from that edge (oh!)

Here comes the sunlight after the storm

(ahh-ahh) it finds me

It finds me

Warm on the scars that kept me torn

(ahh-ahh) reminds me

Reminds me

I was made to bend

Not break

Heart still beating through the ache

Here comes the sunlight after the storm

I’m still here

I’m reborn

Ho-oooh

Ho-oooh

I survived the longest night

Ho-oooh

Ho-oooh

Now my fear is burning white

Step by step

I rise

I rise

Eyes wide open to the sky

Let the rain fall off my skin

Let this new day flood me in (hey!)

Here comes the sunlight after the storm

(ahh-ahh) it finds me

It finds me

Warm on the scars that kept me torn

(ahh-ahh) reminds me

Reminds me

I was made to bend

Not break

Heart still beating through the ache

Here comes the sunlight after the storm

I’m still here

I’m reborn

[throat chant

Hengereg hits slowing]

Ho-oooh

After the storm

Ho-oooh

I am the dawn