From the recording The Gods Stood Up
Lyrics
[VERSE 1]
I was born in the quiet
in the dust beneath their feet
Just a shadow in the corner
just a name they’d never speak
And the world kept turning
never looking my way
I learned silence like a language
learned to live another day
[PRE-CHORUS]
And they say I’m chosen now
but they never saw me then
How can I save a world
that never let me begin
[CHORUS]
In my chains, in my chains
I was breaking in the dark
Now they call me by a Bloodline
I don’t feel inside my heart
And the pain, and the pain
it’s a song I never learned
I’m a fire without a memory
I’m a Radiance that burns
[VERSE 2]
There were whispers in the shadows
soft as breath against my skin
No name, no face, no promise—
just a voice that let me in
Through the veil it found me
when the world had turned away
Like a hand beneath the water
pulling me toward the day
[PRE-CHORUS]
And I trusted without knowing
like a child without a choice
I was nothing to the world
but I was something to that voice
[CHORUS]
In my chains, in my chains
I was breaking in the dark
Now they call me by a Bloodline
I don’t feel inside my heart
And the pain, and the pain
it’s a song I never learned
I’m a fire without a memory
I’m a Radiance that burns
[BRIDGE]
Ohhh…
I don’t know this world you want me to save
Ohhh…
I don’t know the man you think I became
I was nothing
I was no one
I was lost beneath the flame…
Now you’re calling me a legend
but I don’t know my own name
[FINAL CHORUS]
In my chains, in my chains
I was breaking in the dark
Now the Radiance is rising
but it’s tearing me apart
And the pain, and the pain
it’s a truth I never learned
I’m a wound that keeps on singing
I’m a Bloodline that returns