Ashes dont own me

I’ve drowned, I’ve burned, I’ve begged for the end…

But I’m still here.

So this time — I fight.

I carried the shame like a noose on my throat,

Built my own prison, wore failure as a coat.

But the glass finally cracked, the silence gave way,

I’ve bled too much life just to waste it away.

They thought I’d crumble, thought I’d cave in,

But ashes don’t own me — I’ll breathe again.

From the wreckage I’m rising, from the fire I crawl,

Scars on my back, but I’m breaking the wall.

Every chain that you gave me, I’ll turn into flame,

Ashes don’t own me — remember my name.

I see the graves of the demons I fed,

But they don’t haunt me, they’re silent, they’re dead.

I walk through the smoke with the past at my heel,

The wounds still ache, but the skin starts to heal.

I was begging for an out, I was begging for peace,

But the fire in my chest refused to cease.

I’m not your victim, I’m not your slave,

This body, this voice — I will not trade.

From the wreckage I’m rising, from the fire I crawl,

Scars on my back, but I’m breaking the wall.

Every chain that you gave me, I’ll turn into flame,

Ashes don’t own me — remember my name.

The dark still lingers, but it doesn’t define,

I’ve walked through hell… and the fire’s mine.

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