No Light Without Blood

Verse 1

They sold me dreams without a cost

Said pain was something to be lost

But every truth I ever knew

Was paid in red, was paid in you

Pre-Chorus

You don’t ascend without the fall

You don’t feel whole until you’re raw

Chorus

There’s no light without blood

No crown without the cut

Every star I ever touched

Burned because it must

I won’t apologize for scars

They taught me who I am

There’s no light without blood

And I would bleed again

Verse 2

I walked through fire, slow and wide

With shaking hands, with open eyes

If this is what becoming means

Then let it hurt — I’m still complete

Bridge (intimate)

If pain is proof that I survived

Then every wound keeps me alive

Final Chorus

There’s no light without blood

No truth without the fight

I am forged, not saved

In the dark, I learned to shine