[Verse 1]
I spent so long looking down
Counting every scar below
I forgot the same old roots
Were feeding something I could grow
I kept measuring the darkness
By the places I had been
Never saw the morning breaking
Through the branches overhead
[Pre-Chorus]
Maybe healing isn’t leaving
Every shadow in the past
Maybe it’s learning how to carry
What was never meant to last
[Chorus]
My branches toward heaven
My roots still know the hell
Every scar beneath the surface
Built the strength in which I dwell
I don’t have to lose the darkness
To finally find the light
My roots still know the hell
But my branches found the sky
[Verse 2]
There are storms I still remember
There are names I still can hear
But they don’t own the ground beneath me
And they don’t decide my fear
I used to think that being healed
Meant never hurting anymore
Now I know you can still carry pain
And open another door
[Pre-Chorus]
I don’t need to burn the past
To finally move ahead
I can let the roots stay buried
And still reach for something else
[Chorus]
My branches toward heaven
My roots still know the hell
Every scar beneath the surface
Built the strength in which I dwell
I don’t have to lose the darkness
To finally find the light
My roots still know the hell
But my branches found the sky
[Bridge – stripped]
I used to think the light
Would erase the night
Now I know the sun
Doesn’t ask the dark to die
It just rises
And somehow
That is enough
[Build]
Every branch
Every scar
Every mile
Every mark
I can see it now
I was growing
Even in the dark
[Final Chorus – wide and uplifting]
My branches toward heaven
My roots still know the hell
Every wound became a pathway
Every fall became a well
I don’t have to hate the darkness
To finally choose the light
My roots still know the hell
But my branches found the sky
And for the first time
I don’t need to ask why
[Outro]
The roots stayed deep
The branches rose
And somewhere between the two
I became whole.