(Female Voice) Verse 1 I’ve been walking through the shadows, Carrying ghosts I never chose. Every memory feels like an echo, The only voice my mind knows. I’ve been shrinking just to manage, Calling survival “who I am.” But beneath the ache and damage, Lives a light that never ends. (Female Voice) Chorus Within me lives an ancient spark, a flickering holy flame, That burns with a power so great, that only I can claim. It breaks through the echoes of silence, the memories that still ache The core that won’t stop fighting no matter what they take Bound by fear, defined by shame, a cage is all I’ve known There’s a part of me that won’t give up, no one can ever own. Even when I’m numb inside, it keeps calling out my name. Telling me to rise up, that I am beautiful in spite the pain. I hear it’s voice, it’s calling me, screaming out from every scar “You are the flame that burns inside, remember who you are.” (Female Voice) Verse 2 I was taught to doubt my longing, Power was not mine to touch So I buried all my knowing, Out of fear I’d be too much To much to want, too much to love And yet never quite enough Still that quiet heat kept rising, The flame they couldn’t snuff (Female Voice) Chorus Within me lives an ancient spark, a flickering holy flame, That burns with a power so great, that only I can claim. It breaks through the echoes of silence, the memories that still ache The core that won’t stop fighting no matter what they take Bound by fear, defined by shame, a cage is all I’ve known There’s a part of me that won’t give up, no one can ever own. Even when I’m numb inside, it keeps calling out my name. Telling me to rise up, that I am beautiful in spite the pain. I hear it’s voice, it’s calling me, screaming out from every scar “You are the flame that burns inside, remember who you are.” (Female Voice) Verse 3 My bones they begin to listen, To the voice they all now fear I am not the weight they gave me, I am the fire that was always here So now I rise, I remember I was never theirs to cage or name I do not break nor bow in shame. For I am the Eternal Flame (Female Voice) Final Chorus Within me lives an ancient spark, a flickering holy flame, That burns with a power so great, that only I can claim. It breaks through the echoes of silence, the memories that still ache The core that won’t stop fighting no matter what they take Bound by fear, defined by shame, a cage is all I’ve known There’s a part of me that won’t give up, no one can ever own. Even when I’m numb inside, it keeps calling out my name. Telling me to rise up, that I am beautiful in spite the pain. I hear it’s voice, it’s calling me, screaming out from every scar “You are the flame that burns inside, remember who you are.”