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[VERSE 1]
I grew up quiet in the shadow of the chains
Learned to disappear before they learned my name
Every breath was borrowed, every step was small
I learned to live like I was nothing at all
You talk about Radiance like it’s some kind of grace
But I’ve only ever known how to vanish from a place
You say I’m chosen — I don’t feel chosen
I feel like a fracture you’re trying to make golden

[PRE-CHORUS]
And I don’t know how to care for a world
that never cared for me
I don’t know how to feel anything
but the numbness I learned to be

[CHORUS]
I’m breaking the silence I built to survive
But I don’t know if I’m waking or barely alive
You want a savior — I’m still learning my name
Still crawling from the ashes of a life lived in shame
If the Radiance is calling, I can’t hear it yet
I’m still trying to feel something I’ve never met
I’m trying to belong, but I don’t know how—
I’m a wound you can’t see
and I’m bleeding out now

[VERSE 2]
I never asked to carry what the Bloodline left behind
Never asked to be the answer to a world that’s never been kind
You say Aetheros knelt and brought the gods back home—
I’ve only ever knelt because I wasn’t allowed to stand alone
And somewhere in the dark, when the fear was closing in
A whisper cut the silence like a hand beneath my skin
No name, no face, no promise, no demand—
Just a voice that reached through the veil
and taught me how to stand

[PRE-CHORUS]
And I don’t know why that voice felt real
when nothing else ever did
I don’t know why I trusted it
like a frightened, wounded kid

[CHORUS]
I’m breaking the silence I built to survive
But I don’t know if I’m waking or barely alive
You want a savior — I’m still learning my name
Still crawling from the ashes of a life lived in shame
If the Radiance is calling, I can’t hear it yet
I’m still trying to feel something I’ve never met
I’m trying to belong, but I don’t know how—
I’m a wound you can’t see
and I’m bleeding out now

[BRIDGE]
Whispers in the dark…
without a name, without a touch…
A guiding voice that found me
when the world had given up
Piercing through the veil
through the fear, through the cost…
You showed me there was something left
in everything I’d lost

[FINAL CHORUS]
I’m breaking the habit of hiding my pain
But I don’t know if I’m ready to rise again
You want a hero — I’m still learning to breathe
Still shaking off the shadows that never let me leave
If the Radiance is choosing, I don’t know why—
I’m still learning how to live
in a life I didn’t try
I’m trying to belong, but I don’t know how—
I’m a wound you can’t see
but I’m healing
somehow