Verse 1 I was born from the salt and the storm-ripped sea, Where the sky meets the water and nothing is free. They said I should soften, they said I should kneel, But iron was taught in the wounds that I feel. I walked through the silence where the brave disappear, With a heart made of thunder and no room for fear. Every name they tried burying deep in the ground, Rose like a fire that could not be drowned. Pre-Chorus I do not break, I do not fold. I carry the stories Of women made bold. --- Chorus I am the shield of ashes, I am the flame in the night. Born of the breaking, Still I rise into light. No chains can define me, No fate can confine me. I am the storm that remembers her name— And I will not be tamed. --- Verse 2 They tried to write silence where my voice should have been, Tried to call it my weakness, my sorrow, my sin. But the gods know my walking, the earth knows my tread, I carry the living and the lost with the dead. The ravens still follow my path through the grey, Like the ghosts of the battles I survived every day. And I learned in the ruin where the broken ones rise, Strength is not given—it’s earned in the skies. Pre-Chorus I do not break, I do not fold. I carry the stories Of women made bold. --- Chorus I am the shield of ashes, I am the flame in the night. Born of the breaking, Still I rise into light. No chains can define me, No fate can confine me. I am the storm that remembers her name— And I will not be tamed. --- Bridge Let the mountains remember my cry! Let the ocean respond when I rise! I am not what they told me I’d be— I am the war and the calm of the sea. --- Final Chorus I am the shield of ashes, I am the flame in the night. Forged in the breaking, Still I rise into light. No chains can define me, No fate can confine me. I am the storm that remembers her name— And I will not be tamed. --- Outro I was not made to kneel in the dark… I was made to become the spark.