Out of the Ashes

OUT OF THE ASHES”

Tempo: 96 BPM

Key: D minor, with an uplifting major-color lift in the final chorus

Time: 4/4

Vocal: Deep, weathered male baritone

Feel: Cinematic folk / Americana • tribal percussion • redemption anthem

Arc: Broken → awakening → determined → triumphant

Single acoustic guitar. Distant cello. Low atmospheric drone. Foot-stomp enters faintly.

There was a time I couldn't see

Past the smoke surrounding me.

Every road had disappeared,

Every voice was drowned by fear.

I carried pieces of a life

Through the darkness of the night.

Thought the flame had taken all—

Didn't know I'd learned to fall...

So I could rise.

There's a morning past the night,

There's a spark that won't surrender.

And somewhere underneath these ashes...

I'm still alive.

I will rise from what remains,

Through the fire, through the rain.

Every scar becomes a story,

Every wound becomes my strength.

Let the old life turn to ashes,

Let the wind carry it away.

I wasn't buried by the fire...

I WAS FORGED INSIDE THE FLAME.

Now these boots know harder roads,

These hands have learned what letting go means.

I've lost things I thought I needed,

Found the things that make me whole.

There's a freedom born from losing,

There's a strength you cannot see.

Sometimes everything must fall apart...

To become what it should be.

Hear that thunder rolling in,

Feel that fire beneath my skin.

Yesterday can have what's gone—

I'm moving on.

I will rise from what remains,

Through the fire, through the rain.

Every scar becomes a story,

Every wound becomes my strength.

Let the old life turn to ashes,

Let the wind carry it away.

I wasn't buried by the fire...

I WAS FORGED INSIDE THE FLAME.

Deep drum every two beats. Cello drone. Almost spoken.

Ashes behind me.

Road ahead.

Fear tried to own me.

But fear is dead.

I have walked through darkness

Long enough to understand...

Two-beat silence.

THE FIRE NEVER CAME TO END ME.

Massive drum hit.

IT CAME TO MAKE ME WHO I AM.

I WILL RISE!

From everything that tried to break me.

I WILL RISE!

Stronger than I was before.

Let the mountains hear me coming,

Let the thunder shake the ground.

What I thought would be my ending...

WAS WHERE MY NEW LIFE STARTED OUT.

Low male choir:

Rise... Rise... Rise...

From the ashes.

Through the flame.

I know exactly who I am...

AND I WILL RISE AGAIN.

Everything disappears except acoustic guitar.

Very low vocal:

Yesterday is ashes...

Tomorrow...

is mine.