Growing Reach

[Intro]
Long nights
Red eyes
Empty room
Big sky

[Verse 1]
They said, “Sit down”
I stood on the doubt
Stomach on empty
But the vision was loud
Holes in my shoes
Rain in my coat
Cold on my back
But a blaze in my throat

Mama in the kitchen
Stretching one plate
I swore on that table
We’d change our fate
Every closed door
Left a bruise on my name
But every single bruise
Built weight in my frame

[Pre-Chorus]
I bled on the page
Till the pain turned gold
Every scar on my soul
Is a story I told

[Chorus]
I never let the dream fall down
Even when the world said, “Quit right now” (right now)
Heart on the floor, still I rose, still I rose
Look at me, I’m living what I wrote
Yeah, I walked through the fire and the flood
Turned all of that hurt into love
I never let the dream fall down
Dreams don’t break, they bend, then crown

[Verse 2]
[low vocal register]
Dark days tasted
Like metal and dust
Friends turned faces
Into rusted trust
Laughed at my hunger
Called it a phase
But I carved my name
In the smoke and the haze

Late bus rides
Writing schemes on my phone
City rolled by
I was already grown
Every “you can’t”
Became fuel in my chest
I was built in the ruins
Of every failed test

[Pre-Chorus]
I bled on the page
Till the ink ran clear
Turned a lifetime of fear
To a voice you hear

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
[saxophone riff under hushed vocals]
Now the crowd sings back
What I once yelled alone
Took the cracks in my heart
Made a diamond throne

[violin swell]
All that suffering
Was the staircase, not the end
Now my past is the echo
And my future’s the anthem I send

[Chorus]

[Outro]
[spoken, over harmonica and soft sax]
For every night I almost let it go
For every tear that fell in secret
This is proof
Dreams don’t die
We just grow enough to reach them