Start Again

Verse 1
There’s a box in the attic with my old dog tags,Letters you wrote me and faded flags.A bottle of pills I never finished off,And a list of names that still make me cough.Got photos from nights I don’t recall,Bar fights, blackouts, near downfalls.I’ve been living like a ghost in my own skin,Half past gone, half trying to begin.
Verse 2
Tonight I pulled that box back down,Set it on fire at the edge of town.Watched the flames lick everything I’d been,Every excuse, every “I can’t win.”I ain’t forgetting what I’ve seen and done—But I’m done letting it block the sun.Sometimes you gotta torch the past,To free your hands to hold what lasts.
Pre-Chorus
This ain’t about running from who I am—It’s about trusting I can be a better man.
Chorus
So I’m burning it down to start again,Letting go of the ghosts I called my friends.All the shame, all the fear, all the ways I’d hide,Going up in smoke under this midnight sky.From these ashes I’ll rise, I swear—Not clean, but honest, standing there.Yeah, I’m burning it down…To build a life that’s worth me now.
Bridge
You can’t grow roots in a house of pain—Sometimes you light the match and dance in the rain.

* Instruments: Low tuned electric, tom-heavy drums, airy pads, acoustic underneath