From the Fire
About this track
A love letter to Silent Hill Lyrics There is a me beneath the ashes There is a me beneath my skin One of us remembers screaming One of us learned how to begin I see that face in every candle I hear it breathing in the walls I am the wound that keeps on opening I am the name the darkness calls Who is the real me When the fire knows my name When the mirror shows two shadows Standing inside the same flame Am I the self Or what the self became Who is the real me When both of us feel pain I was afraid of what was burning Afraid the heat would hollow me But there are truths inside the furnace Only flames can make you see If I am haunted by another If I am made of borrowed light Then why does anger feel like breathing Why does sorrow feel like mine Who is the real me When the fire knows my name When the mirror shows two shadows Standing inside the same flame Am I the self Or what the self became Who is the real me When both of us feel pain Ash in my mouth Smoke in my hair A prayer made of blood And a god of despair I am not your altar I am not your door I am not the one You burned before Maybe I am fear made human Maybe I am wrath made kind Maybe I am all that silence Learning how to speak as mine I can carry what you carried I can leave what isn’t true I can stand inside the fire And decide what I turn into Who is the real me When the old names fall away When the flame becomes a sunrise And the night becomes a blade Not the child Not the cage Not the hand that lit the pyre I will choose the shape I carry I will choose what leaves the fire