[Intro – Whispered Invocation]
(bare breath, close mic, soft reverb)
Bloodline talkin’…
Ancestors walkin’…
(yeah… I hear you…)
We break what they couldn’t…
We rise where they wouldn’t…
[Hook – Melodic / Intro Hook]
(airy, rising melody, three-part harmonies behind)
Mmm… I’m breakin’ every chain they left behind…
Ooooh… I’m freein’ every spirit in my line…
If it ain’t love, it ain’t divine—
I cut that cord, reclaim what’s mine…
(yeah… reclaim what’s mine…)
(ancestors hummin’ like a low choir)
[Verse 1]
Why are we stuck inside this loop?
Why does this story keep repeating?
We inherit old demons, a ledger in a locket—
A worn brass heart from Grandma’s hand, still beating.
If we don’t learn the pattern, if we never face the truth,
It becomes a bitter gift we wrap for our own youth.
But I ain’t running from the shadow—
I’m meetin’ every lesson, turnin’ pain into a blessing.
[Pre-Chorus – Harmonized]
I am the fire in the darkness,
I am the crack within the stone.
I’m the one who ends the cycle,
I’m the one reclaimin’ home.
(oooh—reclaimin’ home…)
[Chorus – Full + Ad-libs]
We break the contract—
(break it, break it…)
Any man, any god, any power that held us back.
We break the curses—
(let it fall… let it fall…)
Let the ashes hit the dirt while our spirits rise intact.
We light the incense—
(light it up, light it up…)
Pour the water, call the names, speak the truths they hid from us.
’Cause baby we ain’t stuck—
(we ain’t never stuck…)
Rise from dust—
(rise from dust…)
[Verse 2]
Grandma carried burdens heavy,
Mama carried even more—
I refuse to let my children feel that weight upon their core.
All them oaths signed in shadow, under pressure, under fear,
I revoke them in the daylight—let the whole world hear me clear.
I break tethers, cut the bindings, ain’t no spirit ownin’ me;
No master, god, or daemon claims my soul, my destiny.
I return what isn’t mine—(send it back…)
Send it back into the void, to smoke and salt water and sky.
[Pre-Chorus – Layered]
I am the ember and the thunder,
I am the root that will not die.
I’m the breath that breaks the silence,
I’m the voice that learns to fly.
(oooh—learns to fly…)
[Chorus – Variation / Payoff]
We break the contract—
(break it, break it…)
Any chain, any vow that kept us under glass.
We break the curses—
(leave it, leave it…)
Let the fire cleanse the bones while our true names come back.
We burn the paper—
(flame it, flame it…)
We wash with salt, we call the saints, we speak the names that build us up.
’Cause now we’re unbound—
(we’re unbound…)
We rise from dust—
(we rise from dust…)
[Bridge – Ancestral Chant + Specific Images]
Break it… break it… break it now.
(soft harmony: break it now…)
Bloodline speak, I free you now—
I spit out iron taste of old regrets, I drop the locket on the table.
Smoke curls up like memory; salt water cleans the label.
Contracts burn—release this vow—
Rise, Phoeni
