A distant siren fades behind me Morning traffic starts to crawl I count the names carved into yesterday And refuse to carry them all There was a time I measured living By the things I couldn't keep Now the ground beneath my footsteps Feels less certain, but more deep I have watched a thousand faces Trade their colors for approval I have heard a thousand promises Disappear beneath the usual Every second spent pretending Left a mark beneath the skin Every road that looked familiar Led me further from within Can you hear it? Underneath the distance Something moves Something shifts I've been quiet For too long Now the current Pulls me on I will stand Where the world turns cold I will speak When the story is sold I am done With the life I was given I am here And I'm ready to begin No confession makes it simple No apology repairs the years But I found a strange kind of freedom In refusing to disappear I stopped searching for permission I stopped measuring my worth There is something left to salvage From the ruins of this world Burn the script They wrote for me Break the code That made me bleed Every limit Every chain Has a price I won't pay again I don't need Their approval I don't need Their design If the road Won't open for me I'll create A different line Take me to the edge I'll go further Push me into the unknown I'll go deeper Every second Every scar Every choice Has brought me here I was never Made to follow I was made To reappear There is no promise in tomorrow There is no guarantee of grace But I would rather face the question Than keep wearing someone else's face What was broken taught me something What was lost became a measure Not of everything behind me But of everything I treasure Strip it down To the bone Leave the noise Leave it gone What remains Is enough What remains Is mine I will stand Where the world turns cold I will speak When the story is sold I am done With the life I was given I am here And I'm ready to begin Let the years Fall out behind me Let the old Ideas unwind I don't know Where this will lead me But this life Is finally mine The streets begin to fill with voices The morning loses all its grey And somewhere between fear and freedom I feel the distance give way No perfect ending waits before me No final answer needs to come Just one decision after another And the courage to become
