Somewhere Beneath

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

The mortar of my faith was mixed with doubt,

A gilded cage I couldn't claw my way out.

I traded years for a counterfeit crown,

Then cursed the heavens when the walls came down.

Beneath the wreckage, something still survives,

A pulse of defiance in a graveyard of lives.

The cruelest chains are forged without a sound,

From every bitter truth we bury underground.

Chorus

Somewhere beneath this weathered skin,

A light remembers how to enter in.

Though every road leads back to what I've lost,

There must be meaning buried in the cost.

And if these weary hands can build again,

Perhaps the ruin wasn't all in vain.

Verse 2

We carve our epitaphs in borrowed stone,

Mistaking possession for a life of our own.

The clock devours what ambition cannot keep,

While all our finest moments gather dust in sleep.

I watched the strongest shoulders learn to bend,

And saw the proudest empires meet their end.

No monument can bargain with the grave;

The only wealth is what we dared to save.

Chorus

Somewhere beneath this weathered skin,

A light remembers how to enter in.

Though every road leads back to what I've lost,

There must be meaning buried in the cost.

And if these weary hands can build again,

Perhaps the ruin wasn't all in vain.

Breakdown

Strip the gold from every lie.

Count the years you can't buy back.

All that glitters turns to silence.

All that matters leaves a mark.

Bridge

If you had seen me at my lowest,

Would your eyes have turned away?

I have carried this like penance

Through the wreckage of each day.

But a heart that's been abandoned

Still can learn to trust the dawn;

Even after hope has withered,

Something beautiful grows on.

Final Chorus

Somewhere beneath this weathered skin,

A light remembers how to enter in.

I'll walk the road, whatever it may cost,

And find the pieces I believed were lost.

For all the years that sorrow stole from me,

There is still a life I haven't learned to see.

Outro