Ashes To Gold

Verse 1:

3 AM conversations with my demons in the mirror

Used to see a ghost, now the vision's getting clearer

Counted every scar like currency of pain

Now I'm rich in wisdom from the storms I've weathered in the rain

They don't know the nights I spent on bathroom floors

Begging for the strength to make it through one more

But every breakdown was a breakthrough in disguise

Had to touch the bottom just to learn that I could rise

Pre-Chorus:

From the ashes, from the ashes

All my crashes, all my crashes

Turned to gold

Chorus:

I'm spinning ashes to gold, ashes to gold

Everything that broke me down just made me whole

Phoenix in my blood, fire in my soul

I'm spinning ashes to gold, ashes to gold

(Watch me glow, watch me glow)

Verse 2:

Mama used to pray for me when I was too far gone

Now I'm the answer to the prayers she held on

STS soldiers know the war inside my head

But we made peace with all the things we never said

Used to chase the numbness, now I chase the feeling

Every emotion is a gift, even when I'm reeling

They say pressure makes diamonds, I say pain makes phoenixes

Now I'm flying high above all of my nemeses

Pre-Chorus:

From the ashes, from the ashes

All my crashes, all my crashes

Turned to gold

Chorus:

I'm spinning ashes to gold, ashes to gold

Everything that broke me down just made me whole

Phoenix in my blood, fire in my soul

I'm spinning ashes to gold, ashes to gold

(Watch me glow, watch me glow)

Bridge:

(Beat strips down to piano and vocals)

They ask me how I made it here alive

I tell 'em every scar's a reason why

I'm stronger than I ever thought I'd be

The fire didn't kill me, it set me free

Final Chorus:

(Full production returns with gospel choir feel)

I'm spinning ashes to gold, ashes to gold

Everything that broke me down just made me whole

Phoenix in my blood, fire in my soul

I'm spinning ashes to gold, ashes to gold

My story's being told, story's being told

From the ashes to gold

(Watch me glow, watch me glow)

From the ashes to gold

Outro:

Every loss, every tear, every fall

Turned to gold, turned to gold

Now I'm standing tall