Said I was fine, said I was free
But everything kept asking me
Why the days just circle back
Like wheels on iron, steel on track (track, track)
I learned the weight of empty wins
Smiles with nowhere left to live
I chased the shine, I knew the cost
Still felt cheaper than the loss
Every mirror told the truth
But never told me what to do
Just kept time with a tight grin
Said, "This is it, just settle in" (in)
Something knocked without a sound
Something cracked the ground I'd found
Like a whisper cutting through
Everything I thought I knew
Born again into the light
Not an exit, set upright
Every breath relearned its name
Same world, but not the same
I didn't rise because I tried
Didn't climb my way outside
This is how the dark is denied
I rose because someone died
I rose because someone died
I dressed my doubt in clever words
Made my cage look self-assured
Called the ache "being alive"
Called survival "doing fine"
But every night, the quiet stayed
Asked what all that motion made
If this was all the ground allowed
Why my soul kept digging down, down
Then the dark lost its disguise
When the truth met both my eyes
Not with thunder, not with fear
Just a voice that stayed too near
Born again into the day
Not patched up, pulled away
From the lie that I was whole
From the slow collapse of soul
No disguise, no alibi
No new mask, no better lie
This is the reason I'm alive
I rose because someone died
I rose because someone died
I rose because someone died
I rose because someone died
No more clocks to hold my breath
No more calm that smells like death
What I lost, I let it leave
For what I didn't dare believe, believe, believe
Born again and now I see
Life before was haunting me
Not dramatic, just untrue
Gray pretending it was blue
Every chain cut deep inside
Every grave swung open wide
This is how the lost arrive
I rose because someone died
Still moving forward, still in time
But the pulse is no longer mine, mine
Mmm
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