Reforged

Lyrics

[Intro]
Cold bellows whisper over coal-black stone
I count the cracks in the man I wore like mail
Ash kisses my palms as the last dull ringing goes

[Verse 1]
I lay my shattered edges on the anvil’s iron face
A sword-spine split, the echo still pinned inside my chest
Knuckles map a winter of blows I didn’t brace
Every flaw shows up in the scale that flakes from stress
If I’m only scrap, then strike me till I spark
Let the flux bite down where the fractures hide their names
I learned the sound of hammers speaking in the dark
How a broken ring can tune a heart to flame

[Pre-Chorus]
Hold me in the tongs, feed me to the mouth of red
Let the ore remember mountain-quiet in its thread
Keep me glowing, bend me where the truth is made
Shed the slag that whispers I should stay afraid

[Chorus]
I am not the break, I am what breaks through
Heat me till the scream in the steel turns true
Lay me on the anvil, swing till the past fades
Throw me in the fire — I come back a blade
Quench me in the black, let the steam write my name
Temper in the hush while the hiss eats shame
Grind me to a line only night can parade
Throw me in the fire — I come back a blade

[Drop]

[Verse 2]
I gather all the teeth of failures from the floor
Thread them through the billet like a spine I’ll own
Bellows find a rhythm my lungs were starving for
Ancestors beat time in the marrow of the bone
Fold on fold, I feed the coals my softer lies
Carbon in the blood meets carbon in the grain
Every time I bend without snapping, something dies
Every time I rise, the edge learns my name

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Hold fast to the heat till the color sings
Keep the core alive as the hammer rings
Bend me toward the line where the weak once frayed
Flood me with the light that the furnace made

[Chorus 2]
I am not the break, I am what breaks through
Heat me till the scream in the steel turns true
Lay me on the anvil, swing till the past fades
Throw me in the fire — I come back a blade
Quench me in the black, let the steam crown the steel
Temper every doubt till the spine turns real
Mark a brighter line where the night was laid
Throw me in the fire — I come back a blade

[Drop 2]

[Bridge]
Between the heat and water I hear my old name weep
I lower it and listen as the hiss devours grief
White breath on the surface, a ghost I will not save
The ring that rises after is the sound of what I’ll brave

[Chant Break]
Hammer down (hey!), on the anvil (hey!)
Bend, don’t break (hey!), burn the will (hey!)
Scale falls off (hey!), slag away (hey!)
Edge wakes up (hey!), hold and stay (hey!)
Strike, release (hey!), keep the time (hey!)
Fire to quench (hey!), blade to line (hey!)

[Final Chorus]
I am not the break, I am what breaks through
Heat me till the scream in the steel turns true
Lay me on the anvil, swing till the past fades
Throw me in the fire — I come back a blade
Quench me in the dark till the steam lifts pain
Temper in the hush where the heart holds frame
Grind me to a whisper no night can evade
Throw me in the fire — I come back a blade
Carve the ruined name from the spine I made
Write a brighter mark in the tempered shade
Every wound a forge, every fear unmade
Throw me in the fire — I come back a blade

[Outro]
New edge, steady in the cooling light.