The Wreckage by GeigerJordan - Zona

The Wreckage by GeigerJordan - Zona

Lyrics

[Intro]

(single piano note, dark strings building)

[Verse 1]

I sat across from where I came from couldn’t look away

This is what my bloodline left behind along the way

One who took too much and burned her mind down to the ground

One who’s somewhere that the rest of us don’t want to be found

I sat there looking at the wreckage trying to understand

How two people could produce a life and never have a plan

I looked for something I could recognize behind their eyes

Found nothing but a warning and I finally realized

[Hook]

I am not what’s sitting in that room

I am not the wreckage and the ruin

I am nothing like the blood that I come from

And I thank God every single day for where I’m from

[Verse 2]

My sister knows it too we don’t have to say it out loud

We stood on the same edge and we both found different ground

Some people run toward what they came from looking for a piece

I ran the other direction and I finally found some peace

Because I know exactly what that path looks like up close

I’ve seen it with my own eyes and I want nothing of those

No piece of that makes its way inside my house or to my kids

They’ll never know that world exists not what it is

The disgust is real but underneath it something else lives there

A quiet kind of gratitude for getting out of there

[Bridge]

(stripped back — piano only)

You don’t choose your blood

But you choose who you become

You don’t choose the wreckage

But you choose if you run

I ran

I’m still running

Away from that

Toward something

They will never touch

[Chorus]

I came from broken

I was built from something else

Every single thing I am I made myself

Not them, not their choices, not the life they led

I am everything they couldn’t be instead

I came from broken

But I didn’t stay there

I am not my blood

And I thank God for that

[Verse 3]

The pain of being given away still lives inside my chest

But looking at what gave me up I see it for the rest

The prayer I didn’t know I needed answered before I asked

The exit from a burning building I didn’t know was glass

My kids will never know them never feel that weight I felt

That cycle ends with me I’m the last hand that it’s dealt

I chose to break from everything that blood would have me be

And that choice is the only thing that ever set me free

[Chorus]

I came from broken

I was built from something else

Every single thing I am I made myself

Not them, not their choices, not the life they led

I am everything they couldn’t be instead

I came from broken

But I didn’t stay there

I am not my blood

And I thank God for that

[Final Bridge]

(strings swell)

I looked across that table

And I made my peace

Not with them

But with the fact that I got out

That I am free

Free from what they are

Free from where they go

I chose something different

And I’ll never let it go

[Outro]

(piano fading)

They are not my story

They are just the start

The part before the part

That actually matters

And that part is mine

All mine