[Verse 1]
Metal taste in my mouth
Knuckles raw from the fall
Every mirror I pass
Says I’ll never stand tall
Wires tangled in shame
Old ghosts under my skin
But there’s a flicker in the dark
I feel a rumble begin
[Chorus]
I am a lion
Unbroken
Hear my roar in the open (yeah)
Tore my heart
But it’s golden
Beat by beat
It’s unfolding
I’m rising higher
An eagle
Cutting straight through the needle
From all the pain I was born in
I turn the cracks into morning
[Verse 2]
Scars mapped on my chest
Like routes out of despair
Every “never” they said
Built a staircase in the air
Storms hammered my frame
Tried to grind me to dust
But every time I hit the ground
I learned to turn fear to trust
[Chorus]
I am a lion
Unbroken
Hear my roar in the open (oh yeah)
Tore my heart
But it’s golden
Beat by beat
It’s unfolding
I’m rising higher
An eagle
Cutting straight through the needle
From all the pain I was born in
I turn the cracks into morning
[Bridge]
I was broken
I was breaking
Still my wild blood kept on racing
All that weight they tried to chain me with
Became the wings I’m blazing with (hey!)
[Chorus]
I am a lion
Unbroken
Hear my roar in the open
Tore my heart
But it’s golden
Beat by beat
It’s unfolding
I’m rising higher
An eagle
Every fall made me lethal
From all the pain I was born in
I turn the cracks into morning
I am a lion
Unbroken
I am the thunder that’s spoken