[Verse 1]
When the lights go low,
And the city forgets my name,
I can hear the ghosts
Dragging chains through the rain.
There’s a voice in the walls,
There’s a hymn in the floor,
Singing, “Child, you survived,
But what did you survive for?”
[Verse 2]
I have worn my scars
Like a coat in the cold,
Kept my mouth sewn shut
With the lies I was sold.
They said pain makes men,
They said shame makes you strong,
But I’ve carried this silence
For far too long.
[Chorus]
So let it ring,
Let it rise,
Let it crawl from my throat to the sky.
If I break,
If I fall,
Let the world hear the sound of it all.
I was never hollow,
I was buried below.
You can hear me breathing
When the lights go low.
[Verse 3]
There are names I lost
In the smoke and the years,
There are hands I miss
That I still feel near.
And the mirror asks,
“Are you beast, are you man?”
I say, “I am what remains
When the fire still stands.”
[Chorus]
So let it ring,
Let it rise,
Let it crawl from my throat to the sky.
If I break,
If I fall,
Let the world hear the sound of it all.
I was never hollow,
I was buried below.
You can hear me breathing
When the lights go low.
[Bridge]
I am not the fear they fed me.
I am not the cage they made.
I am not the wound they opened.
I am not the debt they claimed.
I am every quiet heartbeat
They mistook for letting go.
I am thunder under black streets.
I am ash beneath the snow.
[Final Chorus]
So let it ring,
Let it rise,
Let it tear through the smoke in the sky.
If I break,
If I fall,
Let the world hear the truth of it all.
I was never hollow,
I was buried below.
Now the whole damn underground
Sings when the lights go low.
[Outro]
When the lights go low,
And the city forgets my name,
I will still be here,
Breathing through the rain.
