I used to count the reasons why I couldn't move
Every door looked like a question I had to prove
I carried every doubt like a weight I knew
Till I found out the fear was never telling the truth
I don't need a perfect road beneath my feet
I don't need the world to make room for me
Every broken thought I had to leave behind
Was a version of myself I was outgrowing in time
I was looking for a sign in the distance
But the answer was already inside my skin
Every time I fell every time I changed
Was the fire teaching me my name
This is the reason we rise
The moment we stop running from our lives
No we don't need to be fearless tonight
We just need a little spark to ignite
And when the world says we won't survive
We turn the pressure into a brighter light
This is the reason the reason we rise
We become what we were searching for inside
I know the person I was trying to hide
Still has a voice when I look in his eyes
But I don't have to erase what I've been through
The past can be a road not a room I stay in too
Some answers only come when you let go
Some strength appears when nobody knows
I stopped waiting for a different sky
And started learning how to open mine
I was looking for a sign in the distance
But the answer was already inside my skin
Every scar every change every mistake
Was a part of the shape I was meant to make
This is the reason we rise
The moment we stop running from our lives
No we don't need to be fearless tonight
We just need a little spark to ignite
And when the world says we won't survive
We turn the pressure into a brighter light
This is the reason the reason we rise
We become what we were searching for inside
Maybe I was never meant to be unchanged
Maybe the storm was only rearranging me
Not every ending takes something away
Some endings are the way we finally breathe
This is the reason we rise
The moment we stop hiding from our lives
No we don't need to be fearless tonight
We just need a little spark to ignite
And when the world says we won't survive
We turn the pressure into a brighter light
This is the reason the reason we rise
We become what we were searching for inside