I woke up with the ashes where my kingdom used to stand
Empty pockets, shaking hands,
no map and no command
I wore my fear like iron,
let my doubt become my name
Every road I ran from led me straight into the flame
Then a quiet voice found me
in the wreckage of my pride
Said, Son, you are not finished — I have never left your
side
The scars are proof I made it through the night
The fall was not the ending,
it became the fight What broke me opened up the door I
found a stronger heart than I had ever known before I was
lost, but now I see
The man I’m meant to be is rising free
I thought the pain was punishment,
a sentence I had earned
But every hard and bitter mile was fire where I learned
My Father let the old man crack,
the one built out of fear
Then loved me through the silence till my truest voice was clear
No more hiding from the story,
no more bowing to the past
What I thought would be my ruin was the ground beneath my
grasp
There is no victory
without a valley No deep belief without a doubt He took the
pieces I called worthless And built a soul that won’t bow down
More loving,
more certain,
still learning how to stand A broken man became a vessel in
my Father’s hands
Fear doesn’t control me,
I’m alive and I am free
Every wound became a window,
every chain released me What broke me made me unbreakable What hurt
me made my
heart more capable I lost it all,
but I found my way My true
story starts with every breath I take today Fear doesn’t control me
— hear the whole world say I was broken,
I was
buried, but I rose up anyway (rose up
anyway)
My true story starts today
My Father
led me all the way