Rose From Concrete
(Watch the dust clear)
Yeah, picking up these shattered pieces one by one (Look what we
built, look what we're breaking)
Kicking through the glass that I shattered on the floor Running from
the peace that was standing at my door Fought every soft word
you gave me like a blade Buried under wreckage from the promises
I made Looking at my hands,
yeah, I bruised them on the wall
Pushed away your grace just to orchestrate the fall
Trying to sweep the embers while they burn my fingertips
Praying that your mercy survives my venom lips
I watched you wage a war against a hand that reached in
You called it surviving,
I called it your sin I planted patience right across the cracked
foundation Told you that a rose breaks through cement with dedication You
see a monster looking back inside the frame I see a broken
heart refusing his own name Put the weapons down,
stop fighting through the dust Before you turn what survived of us
to rust (Female)
Even in the stone,
a rose can split the floor!
(Male) I'm cleaning up the wreckage at the front door!
(Both) Monster in the mirror doesn't own who you are!
Burn away the past,
trace every single scar!
(Male) I ran from the light,
yeah I fought your good grace (Both) Now we stand together in
the ruin of this place!
Double time my steps 'cause the clock is running thin
Stripping off the armor that I forged inside my skin
You held out an olive branch,
I turned it to a torch Now I'm standing barefoot on the
ash upon the porch
Every brick I tore down,
I'm stacking
it anew Trading in the chaos
just to walk beside you true I see that flower pushing through
the asphalt gray Learning how to listen to the words you gotta
say
I kept the ground watered while you swung into the dark You
thought you were a beast,
I knew you carried a spark Scars on your reflection aren't the
measure of your soul You had to break completely just to learn
to make us whole Now sweep up the debris,
don't you look behind the glass The wreckage is the soil that
we're turning into grass Stand up tall,
look me dead in the eye We build it from the ground
and we reach for the sky
(Male) I made the mess!
(Female) But you're lifting the stone!
(Male) I ran away blind!
(Female) You ain't walking alone!
(Male) The mirror said monster!
(Female) The mirror was lying!
(Both) Look at the ground where the petal is rising!
(Both) From the cracked concrete,
see the red bloom wild!
Every broken barrier stacked and reconciled!
(Male) I laid down the fight,
threw the hammer away!
(Female) You stepped from the dark into broad daylight!
(Both) No monster in the mirror,
only truth in our eyes!
Out of the wreckage,
watch the two of us rise!
Out of the cement!
(Yeah, we rise!) (Female) See that?
The rose is alive.
(Male) We survived
the storm.