Phoenix in My Veins

*Verse 1*

There was a winter in my bones

A quiet ache nobody knows

Smiled through the cracks in my disguise

Storm behind these steady eyes

I was drowning in the dark

Carrying a heavy heart

Every breath felt paper-thin

Lost somewhere beneath my skin

*Pre-Chorus*

But even in the blackest night

A single spark was burning bright

*Chorus*

I rose from the ashes of despair

From the smoke of every broken prayer

Through the fire, through the pain

I found my heartbeat in the flames

I was bent but I won’t break

Every scar is proof I made

A warrior out of all I’ve been

Now there’s a phoenix in my veins

*Verse 2*

There were days I couldn’t stand

The weight of my own trembling hands

Shadows whispered I was small

That I’d never climb these walls

But rock bottom showed me truth

Stripped me down to something new

In the silence I could hear

A stronger voice beneath the fear

*Pre-Chorus*

It said, “You’re more than what you feel,

Your shattered pieces help you heal.”

*Chorus*

So I rose from the ashes of despair

From the smoke of every broken prayer

Through the fire, through the pain

I found my heartbeat in the flames

I was bent but I won’t break

Every scar is proof I made

A warrior out of all I’ve been

Now there’s a phoenix in my veins

*Bridge*

I am not the weight I carried

Not the nights my hope was buried

I am every time I chose

To stand back up and face the cold

I am fire reborn in light

Turning wrong into my right

What tried to end me made me whole

I forged the steel within my soul

*Final Chorus*

I rose from the ashes of despair

Left the past in open air

Through the fire, through the rain

I built a kingdom from the pain

I was lost but now I see

The storm was shaping me

From the ruins I remain

With a phoenix in my veins

*Outro*

The dark still whispers now and then

But it doesn’t win

Because I know the flame within

And I rise…

Again.