When We Rise

Intro (quiet, building)

(soft piano, distant low drones, reversed echoes)

Verse 1

In the silence after the fall
Where the echoes still remain
We were shadows on the wall
We were standing in the rain

Broken armor, tired eyes
Carrying the weight of years
But beneath the quiet lies
A spark untouched by fear

Pre-Chorus (building)

Hear the distant drums begin
Like a heartbeat through the ground
Every loss we’re standing in
Turns to strength we’ve finally found

Chorus (BIG, with choir & drums)

This is not the end of us
We are fire in the night
From the dust and from the rust
We will rise

When the world is closing in
And the sky is torn apart
From the ashes, from within
We will rise

Verse 2

Through the smoke and shattered stone
Through the dark before the dawn
Every step we take alone
Brings the coming light along

Scars become the map we read
Every wound a place we’ve grown
Every time we chose to bleed
We were building what’s our own

Pre-Chorus

Feel the thunder in your chest
Let it break the cage of doubt
Every trial we’ve faced and pressed
Was the way to let us out

Final Chorus (biggest, full choir)

This is not the end of us
Hear the calling in the sky
Through the storm, through the dust
We will rise

When the ground beneath us breaks
And the night is at its height
From the fear that almost takes us
We will rise

We will rise.

Outro

(choir sustains, brass fades, last piano note with huge reverb tail)