[Intro]
The first brick met the dust
With both hands split and bleeding
No one came to lift the weight
So I learned the shape of needing
[Verse 1]
I kept a ledger in my head
Of every door that failed to open
A borrowed coat, a kitchen chair
A promise bent but never broken
I watched the old roof cave in
Then measured what the rain had taken
Built a frame from scarred-up wood
And stood beneath it, wide awake
[Pre-Chorus]
Every time the ground gave way
I found another place to stand
What was meant to make me small
Put the hammer in my hand
[Chorus]
I rebuild, I adapt, I carry the load
I turn every dead end into another road
With the weight on my back and the fire in my chest
I keep moving forward, I give nothing less
If tomorrow comes hard, let it come like a storm
I was made in the wreckage, I was built to transform
[Verse 2]
There were names I had to shield
And late-night calls I couldn’t silence
A child asleep beneath the hall
While I negotiated with the violence
I learned to bend without breaking
Learned the difference between fear and warning
You can lose the life you knew
And still be there to meet the morning
[Pre-Chorus]
Every time the ground gave way
I found another place to stand
What was meant to make me small
Put the hammer in my hand
[Chorus]
I rebuild, I adapt, I carry the load
I turn every dead end into another road
With the weight on my back and the fire in my chest
I keep moving forward, I give nothing less
If tomorrow comes hard, let it come like a storm
I was made in the wreckage, I was built to transform
[Bridge]
I am not the house that fell
I am not the years I lost
I am every measured cut
Every line I drew across
Let the sirens call my name
Let the cold come through the door
I have carried worse than this
I have built from less before
[Breakdown]
One more wall
One more mile
One more reason
To stay alive
[Final Chorus]
I rebuild, I adapt, I carry the load
I turn every dead end into another road
With the weight on my back and the fire in my chest
I keep moving forward, I give nothing less
If tomorrow comes hard, let it come like a storm
I was made in the wreckage, I was built to transform
I rebuild, I adapt, I carry the load
No crown, no rescue, just the strength that I own
When the last light fades and the whole world goes black
I will raise one more frame, I will never turn back
[Outro]
The first brick met the dust
Then another answered back
I kept building through the dark
Until the dark became a path