Traveler survivor

Verse 1

Cold air on the ridgeline cuts my old skin

The trail I climbed is buried under snow

Every scar I carried written on my boots

Still I point my face to the mountains I climb alone

Pre-Chorus

The weight I dragged for years fell off behind me

At the tree line I finally learned to breathe

Chorus

I hike through the thunder

Every rock a name I left behind

I rise with the morning

Higher than the hurt I used to hide

The past cannot reach me

I outran it all on this winding way home

Verse 2

Down in the valley they still call my number

But up here the silence answers back

Let the storm that broke me build a new sky

Let the ache I carried turn to earth on my back

Pre-Chorus

The story that I kept is mine to silence

The summit holds me now and not the pain

Chorus

I hike through the thunder

Every rock a name I left behind

I rise with the morning

Higher than the hurt I used to hide

The past cannot reach me

I outran it all on this winding way home

Bridge

Loose stones and lost years scatter wide

Beneath the wind I am not the wreck they made

I am the ridge that never bends

I am the fire that outlasted all the rain

Chorus

I hike through the thunder

Every rock a name I left behind

I rise with the morning

Higher than the hurt I used to hide

The past cannot reach me

I outran it all on this winding way home