[Verse 1]
Smoke in my chest
Old scars sing like steel
I walk on broken echoes
Tasting every wound I feel
Dust in my teeth
Names of my failures on my tongue
Grandfather’s eyes in the coals
Saying nothing
Holding on
[Chorus]
Pain is loud
Like a war drum calling (hey!)
Kicks the gate of your stubborn heart down
Wisdom’s quiet
Like snow on the mountain
If you listen
If you listen
You can hear what you must become now
[Verse 2]
Wild fire dancers
Spin in the circles of my rage
Gypsy feet over hot stones
Laughing at the bars of my cage
Storm in my veins
But my teachers never shout
They hide in the pause between breaths
Where the truth crawls out
[Chorus]
Pain is loud
Like a war drum calling (hey!)
Kicks the gate of your stubborn heart down
Wisdom’s quiet
Like snow on the mountain
If you listen
If you listen
You can hear what you must become now
[Bridge]
[Drums drop to toms
Throat-sung chant rises]
Voices of wolves in the wind
Voices of ash in the fire
All of them carving a path
Out of my anger
Out of my fear
[Chanted gang vocals]
What you fear
You will face
What you carry
You erase
[Chorus]
Pain is loud
Like a war drum calling (hey!)
Kicks the gate of your stubborn heart down
Wisdom’s quiet
Like snow on the mountain
If you listen
If you listen
You can hear what you must become now
(You can hear what you must become now)