Rise Beyond Pain

I hear the ground

I feel the sound

This is not the end of me

The plan fell through on a Friday night

All that work disappeared from sight I stood in the dust of

what I knew

And asked my heart what it wanted to do It said,

“Breathe again, look around

You are hurt, but you are not bound A broken road can

still lead home And fallen seeds can still be grown”

I bend, I bruise

I learn, I choose The fall is real,

but I decide what follows

I was never made

to stay down I can hear a new beginning in the sound

Every scar is proof I made it through the night

I am built, built to rise I may lose a round,

not my fire Every setback takes my spirit higher

This is not the ending of my life

I am built, built to rise

Up, up, up again

Here I come, here I stand

Up, up,

up again This is where the rise begins

I stopped calling failure my name

It was only a teacher dressed in pain It showed me where

the structure was weak

Then gave me stronger words to speak

I kept the lesson,

released the shame

Changed the method, protected the aim

The dream got wiser,

the roots went deep Now I know what promises to keep

I bend,

I bruise

I learn, I choose The fall is real,

but I decide what follows

I was never made to stay down

I can hear a new beginning in the sound Every scar is

proof I made it through the night

I am built, built to rise I may lose a round,

not my fire Every setback takes my spirit higher This is not

the ending of my life

I am built, built to rise

My story is not over

My courage is not gone

I am stronger than the moment

That tried to prove me wrong

Say it loud

Say it twice

I am still alive

I am built to rise

We were never made to stay down

Let a million new beginnings shake the ground Every heart that made

it through another night We are built,

built to rise We may lose a round,

not our fire Every setback takes the vision higher This is not

the ending of our lives

We are built, built to rise

Built to learn Built to try Built to love Built to rise