Thorns Into Wings

[Intro]
[female vocals, low]
You said
"Love is supposed to heal"
I laughed
"Guess we're doing it wrong"
[Verse 1]
[female]
Kitchen light buzzing
Cold tea on the stove
You slammed one more door
I scrolled through old photos
Every fight
Left another little crack in the floorboards
Every crack
Spelled a line that I could learn from
[male]
Hallway full of echoes
Boots by the wall
Heart like a bruise
Deep, under it all
I was swinging like a fist
At the ghost of my past
Till your quiet little "stay"
Hit my anger like glass
[Pre-Chorus]
[female]
Thought we were breaking
But we were bending slow
[male]
Every scar on your shoulder
Matched a mark on my soul
[both, building]
We were bleeding through the pages
Of a story we didn't know
[Chorus]
[both, big rock hook]
We turn these thorns into wings
All of this hurt into something that sings
Yeah, we fall, yeah, we crash
But we grow from the ash
Every tear that we taste
Feeds the roots of our faith
We turn these thorns into wings
Into wings
[Verse 2]
[male, rap]
I was raised on "don’t cry"
Hide cuts in a closed fist
Love meant you stay tough
Stay numb, stay hopeless
Then you walked in, red eyes
Mascara like war paint
Said, "Strong ain't stone
Strong feels, then it reshapes"
[female, rap]
I was taught to stay small
Say "sorry" for breathing
Make myself a bandage
For somebody else's bleeding
But your shaking little laugh
When you owned your mistakes
Made me think
Maybe breaking is how the ground shakes
[male, half-sung]
So we scream in the car
Till our throats run dry
[female]
Then we list what we learned
On the ride back home at night
[both]
Every "this is the end"
Turns into "look where we climbed"
[Chorus]
[both]
[Bridge]
[female, soft over guitars]
Remember that night
On the bathroom floor
Makeup on my knees
You outside the door
I thought love meant never hurting
Now I see
It means hurting
And choosing to stay, carefully
[male, strained]
Remember my rage
Like a storm in the hall
Hands in my hair
Ready to lose it all
You said, "Breathe, be honest"
Not "better run away"
You turned my worst day
Into something I could change
[both, [crescendo]]
Every cut, every crack
Let the sunlight in
Every loss, every lack
Now a place to begin
We were seeds in the dark
Thought the dirt was the end
Till the weight and the rain
Turned to roots, turned to strength
[Chorus]
[both, biggest, ad-libs]
[male] (we grow, we grow)
[female] (we rise, we rise)
[Outro]
[female, whispered]
Love isn't painless
[male]
But we don't stay the same
[female]
You hold me through the breaking
[male]
We make a garden from the pain

rap, Hybrid rap-rock ballad with trading male/female vocals; clean palm-muted guitars under the verses, sparse bass and tight drums. Choruses explode with overdriven power chords, stacked call-and-response hooks, and gang vocals on key phrases. Occasional half-time drops for heaviness; verse rap sections sit over filtered guitars and punchy kick/snare. Big reverb on the final chorus for a cathartic, stadium-sized finish., male vocals, rock