Rise from the Ashes

**[Intro (whisper, beat building up)]** The SHAdows WHIsper, “Give UP…” But ALL I HEAR is the RHYthm in my CHEST. One STEP forWARD — and there’s no WAY BACK. I CHOOSE the FLAME. **[Verse 1 (rap-style delivery, moderately fast)]** The CIty KILLS the LIGHTS, but it CAN’T KILL my RAGE, EVery SCAR is a MAP of the DAYS I’ve LIVED through. They’re WATCHing, WAITing for me to FALL aGAIN, But I’m BUILDing WALLS from the PIECes I BROKE aLONG the WAY. WORDS are BULlets, and EVery SHOT HITS the MARK, I don’t ASK for MERcy — I’m my OWN JUDGE and BEAST. Don’t PITy me, don’t WHISper SOFT and LOW, I TURN ASHes inTO STEEL with my OWN HANDS. **[Pre‑Chorus (building intensity, raw, strained vocals)]** BREATH is RAGged, PULSE is at the EDGE, The WORLD is CRUMbling, but I STAND on the LINE. LOUDer! Let EVen the DEAD HEAR me NOW! I won’t VANish inTO this SIlence! **[Chorus (powerful, melodic with extreme vocal elements)]** I’ll RISE from the ASHes like a STORM from the DEEP, Let the SKY BURN — I’m not aFRAID of the HEIGHT! BROken DREAMS are just the STEPS I’ll CLIMB, I’ll beCOME the FIRE that BURNS aWAY all the SHADows! No STORM can BREAK me, no RAIN can eRASE my NAME, It will STAY here, beHIND eVERy CORner, the SAME! **[Verse 2 (rap-style, slightly slower, rhythm-focused)]** TIME eRASes FAces, but it won’t eRASE the PAIN, I reMEMber EVery LIE that PLAYED the PART so WELL. MASKS fall DOWN, reVEALing the EMPtiNESS inSIDE, But INside ME there’s a HURriCANE, BREAking FREE, aLIVE. Don’t LOOK for WEAKness in me — it’s GONE for GOOD, OOnly STEEL and FIRE, OOnly this TRUTH unDERstood. I’m not WHO I WAS yesTERday, and I won’t BE who I USED to BE, This PATH is my SENtence, my OOnly DEStiny. **[Pre‑Chorus]** BREATH is RAGged, PULSE is at the EDGE, The WORLD is CRUMbling, but I STAND on the LINE. LOUDer! Let EVen the STARS HEAR me NOW! I won’t disSOLVE inTO this DARKness! **[Chorus]** I’ll RISE from the ASHes like a STORM from the DEEP, Let the SKY BURN — I’m not aFRAID of the HEIGHT! BROken DREAMS are just the STEPS I’ll CLIMB, I’ll beCOME the FIRE that BURNS aWAY all the SHADows! No STORM can BREAK me, no RAIN can eRASE my NAME, It will STAY here, beHIND eVERy CORner, the SAME! **[Bridge (slow, dramatic, vocals escalating to a scream)]** AShes… They reMEMber WHO I WAS. FLAME… It KNOWS who I’ll beCOME! There’s no WAY BACK! OOnly FORward! Through the PAIN! Through the FEAR! I AM the FIRE! **[Guitar Solo (heavy, with breakdown)]** **[Chorus (maximum power, with choral backing vocals)]** I’ll RISE from the ASHes like a STORM from the DEEP, Let the SKY BURN — I’m not aFRAID of the HEIGHT! BROken DREAMS are just the STEPS I’ll CLIMB, I’ll beCOME the FIRE that BURNS aWAY all the SHADows! No STORM can BREAK me, no RAIN can eRASE my NAME, It will STAY right HERE… forEVer! **[Outro]** HERE… forEVer… From the ASHes.