Ascend

Lyrics: Selene Moray Music: Selene Moray Arranger: Selene Moray We lift on the hush before the sun Breath held like drums beneath the bone Once I walked the map of broken hours Counted small defeats like stones at my feet There was a gravity that knew my name A slow temptation to stay beneath the tide But in the hush between two heartbeats A rumor of wings began to write itself We traded fear for the sound of wind Learned to speak in the language of climb Every pulse a signal, every scar a chord And the skyline answered back Ascend — we break the black and rise Ascend — turn every ruin into light Hands like beacons, lungs as engines, we ignite Ascend — until the horizon folds into the sky Copper dawn and iron-sky mornings taught us How to shape the thunder into a path Crowds that once trembled now become a tide Voices braided into a single flame You thought the night would keep our names We carved them on the wind and called them home Lift with me — feel the old weight shift The gravity loosens where we stand This is the work of many small fires A thousand hands welding the dawn Ascend — lift the echoes from the ground Ascend — let every fallen thing rebound Brass and breath and the roar of fields unbound Ascend — we are the pulse that rewrites the round Mountains will bow when storms learn our tune Oceans will part when our chorus grows loud There is a cathedral in our rising Arches of sound, a brim of gold Give me your broken pieces, your late excuses I will turn them into pillars that hold Ascend — we build a sky from what we've lost Ascend — and pay the darkness back in stars We are the thunder with a human heart Ascend — until the whole world knows our name We lift on the hush before the sun And all the fallen light becomes our dawn