[Intro]
Ash in my lungs
Fire in my teeth
Stars look away
As I rise from the reef
[Verse 1]
Boot prints
On the glass-black sand
Charcoal sky
Clings to my hands
Every breath tastes
Like a funeral crown
But I hear wings beating
Under this ground
Rust red horizon
Cut with sound
Distant engines
Calling me out
I was a whisper
Buried in doubt
Now I'm the question
Spitting it out
[Chorus]
Phoenix on scorched ground
I burn, then I bow, then I stand my ground
From the cracked earth, hear that hollow sound
I fall to the flames
To rise unbound
Phoenix on scorched ground
[Verse 2]
Smoke ghosts
Dance in my chest (oh)
Old names
I never confessed
Gravity claws
Tries to pull me down
But my veins hum loud
Like a warbound hound
Cold void above me
Silent and wide
I tear my shadow
From its old side
Every scar sings
Low and proud
I am the thunder
Under this cloud
[Chorus]
Phoenix on scorched ground
I burn, then I bow, then I stand my ground
From the cracked earth, hear that hollow sound
I fall to the flames
To rise unbound
Phoenix on scorched ground
[Bridge]
[Space-ambient break, distant choirs and rumbling bass swell]
I was dust
I was stone
I was every
Broken bone
Yet some small spark
Refused to drown
A secret sun
Under dead ground
(Yeah)
Set me alight
If you dare
I am the prayer
Inside the despair
Ash on my tongue
But my soul is loud
I wear my ruin
Like a blackened crown
[Chorus]
Phoenix on scorched ground
I burn, then I bow, then I stand my ground
From the cracked earth, hear that hollow sound
I fall to the flames
To rise unbound
Phoenix on scorched ground