Ashes to anthem

Burned out on the inside,

Yeah, the smoke lives in my lungs.

Every thought’s a landslide,

Every day I come undone.

There’s a whisper in the blackness,

Saying, “Boy, you ain’t enough.”

But I wear my wounds like patches—

Stitched together, coming up.

And the silence

Crawls across my skin…

But I’m still fighting

Everything within…

Ashes to anthem,

Hear the broken voices rise.

From the fire I was stranded,

Now I’m staring down the lies.

Pain is poison,

But it’s singing in my veins—

Ashes to anthem,

Turn the darkness into praise.

Heavy is the headspace,

Where the nightmares always roam.

All the guilt I can’t erase,

Like a ghost that calls me home.

I’ve been sinking in the quiet,

In the cold beneath my skin—

But the hurt becomes a riot

When I scream it out again.

And the shadows

Sink their teeth in deep…

But the hollow

Still remembers me…

Ashes to anthem,

Hear the broken voices rise.

From the fire I was stranded,

Now I’m staring down the lies.

Pain is poison,

But it’s singing in my veins—

Ashes to anthem,

Turn the darkness into praise.

[Bridge] (haunting harmony)

Maybe I was meant to shatter,

Maybe that’s the price of truth.

All the pieces never mattered—

Till they cut me into proof.

Let the embers be my warning,

Let the fire make me whole…

’Cause the ashes of the mourning

Are the echoes of my soul.

Ashes to anthem,

Let the fallen learn to rise.

From the ruin I abandoned,

I found rage behind my eyes.

Pain is poison,

But I’ll bleed it out in flames—

Ashes to anthem,

Yeah, this hurt will sing my name.