AFTER THE FALL

I woke up choking on yesterday

Ash in my lungs from the words you said

The house is loud when the silence screams

Every corner still remembers me

I tried to pray to a hollow sky

But faith don't live where the brave ones die

I carved your name in the back of my head

So I don't forget what the pain has said

I carried the weight of a life undone

Buried the light but the dark won't run

If this is hell then let it show

I'm still breathing beneath the snow

I survived what was meant to kill

I bled the truth and I'm standing still

From the wreckage I rise again

New life born from the end

I lost it all I lost my name

But I found fire inside the flame

You took my past but you didn't win

I'm alive after everything

I drank my sleep from a broken cup

Chased the ghosts till the sun came up

Every mirror I passed denied

The man I was before you died

I hit the floor when the ceiling fell

Made a home in a private hell

But scars don't mean that the war is lost

They're proof I paid the fucking cost

I stood alone in the blackest room

Counting heartbeats to feel immune

If I don't break then I learn to bend

This is not where the story ends

I survived what was meant to kill

I bled the truth and I'm standing still

From the wreckage I rise again

New life born from the end

I lost it all I lost my name

But I found fire inside the flame

You took my past but you didn't win

I'm alive after everything

Take it from me

The pain won't leave

But it changes shape

When you refuse defeat

I wore the grave like a second skin

Now I dig my way out from within

Bridge (half-time / melodic lift)

I won't forget you

I won't erase the hurt

But I won't let your absence