Some Fires (Live)

They said it wouldn’t happen

Said I’d never see the day

I just kept my eyes wide open

and I never looked away

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I’ve been down where it’s darkest

I’ve been out where it’s cold

I’ve been told that my vision

was too big for my soul

So I carried it in silence

let it burn like a coal

Some fires don’t need oxygen

they just feed on the goal

Every scar, every closed door

every room going still

Every doubt they threw at me

just sharpened the will

That was fuel, that was data

that was part of the climb

I knew what I knew then

And now I know it’s time

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No more static

No more doubt

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I don’t hear you now

I hear it louder

Every word you said

just made it louder

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I don’t slow down

I don’t come down

I’ve come too far

an I won’t stop now

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Say what you want

I won’t come down

It’s not where I’m going

I’m there right now

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I can’t hear you anymore

I can’t hear you anymore

Locked in on the signal

Opened every door

I can’t hear you anymore

I can’t hear you anymore

Over what I’m here for

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Used to lie awake and wonder

If the doubt might be right

Used to let the noise get in me

Night after night after night

But there’s something about the bottom

when you hit it alone

The only fires that kept burning

Are the ones you lit on your own

So I moved without permission

built it piece by piece

Every loss became a layer

every layer gave me reach

Now the things they called impossible

don’t even feel far

So I’ll move past their doubts

While they stay where they are

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No more waiting

No more why

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I don’t hear you now

I hear it louder

Every word you said

just made it louder

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I don’t slow down

I don’t come down

What’s in front of me

I’m living it now

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Say what you want

I won’t come down

I already know

I’m there right now

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This ain’t arrogance

this is evidence

This ain’t luck

this is time well spent

Every night I chose the work

over comfort, over sleep

I gave it everything

now the roots run deep

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You don’t have to see it

you don’t have to understand

Some things don’t need approval

They just need a plan

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(near silence)

Are you listening?

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I don’t hear you now

I hear it louder

Every doubt you threw

made it so much louder

So I don’t hear you anymore