Ice Underneath the Gold (version 2)

Verse

Concrete crack where the old street light fell

Sirens fade as the dark turns to bell

Four years grinding on a borrowed bike

Now the engine hums like my own life

Night sky bleeding into chrome

Static buzzing through my bones

Every scar is a map I keep

This is how you make yourself asleep

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it climbing up your spine?

Something breaking, something mine.

Something old that won't stay hidden

Rising like the tide just risen

One more push before the sun comes up

Leave every doubt where the darkness ends.

Say it with me till we're done.

Say it till the streetlights come back on

Chorus

We don't break, we built this way

Ice beneath the gold of day

Every hard breath turns to fire

Something wild in every wire

We don't break, we built this way

Rising like the tide just risen

One more push before the sun comes up

Leave everything else behind

Verse

Cold water hitting on a broken bridge

City waking slow, a hundred lights

Hands that shook now steady and strong

Voice I forgot finds its own song

Every step that felt like falling

Was just learning how to walk again

Nobody here is built for glory

We're built for something better than that.

Nothing gold was ever soft or easy

This is the fire that makes us free

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it climbing up your spine?

Something breaking, something mine.

Say it with me till we're done.

Say it till the streetlights come back on

Chorus

We don't break, we built this way

Ice beneath the gold of day

Every hard breath turns to fire

Something wild in every wire

We don't break, we built this way

Rising like the tide just risen

One more push before the sun comes up

Leave everything else behind

Bridge

Maybe it was never about arriving

Maybe glory's a myth and I'm still living

Every doubt is something older

Something in me I've been hiding

No crown, no trophy, no name to claim

Just this weight that refuses to change

It was ice when the light came through

But now it's gold, it's warm, it's true

Chorus

We don't break, we built this way

Ice beneath the gold of day

Every hard breath turns to fire

Something wild in every wire

We don't break, we built this way

Rising like the tide just risen

One more push before the sun comes up

Leave everything else behind