Stories written and stories told
All laid out before me
What a cold night this is turning out to be
At my feet lay paths blocked and broken
And I know there's no way to return
No turning back to the way from which I came
This is my life
This is here and now
I don't have anything else (All I love is gone)
This is what is real
I wish it weren't so
I wish it were all a dream
I'd break my neck if I thought it would wake me up
This is all I have
A castle made of sand, waiting to collapse
I wish it were just a dream
I'd give anything just to wake up
I know it's never going to change
So I'll grit my teeth and bare it
I'll take the weight of it all
And I will not be crushed
Refined by fire
I will rise from the ashes and dust
I'd show what this world has left me with
If there was anything to see
Starting over with a clean slate
I will rise
I will rise
I will rise, above this world, above it all
I will rise, I will conquer it all