Play this act on a whim with no script to guide me

Against all odds in the storm I won't hide I won't slide

Etch the passion in my heart ambitions still unmet

When the masks fall to the ground hypocrisy I'll forget

Through the lightning and the thunder who stands by your side

Madly cling to the end the fool's strength won't divide

Courage once let go now rises anew

Amidst countless trials I stand up to you

Speak of fate of destiny I defy all that's beneath me

For my dreams I'll rise even if I must crawl to the peak

Challenges tower like mountains I stand strong unafraid

Fire in my heart light in my eyes breaking through the shade

Wounds borne pain endured all turn into glory

Yesterday's dreams today's resolve I turn into a story

Through the lightning and the thunder who stands by your side

Madly cling to the end the fool's strength won't divide

Courage once let go now rises anew

Amidst countless trials I stand up to you

In the darkness before dawn I'm lost I'm unsure

The faint light in my heart surrounded by shadows and more

Murmurings the sky's not bright my journey feels indrawn

Speak of fate of destiny I defy all that's beneath me

For my dreams I'll rise even if I must crawl to the peak

From childhood to now I've heard your words but now I'm unsure

How to make this choice my clumsiness I must endure

The path of life a lock I've come to the fallen phoenix slope

At eighteen I've just begun in eighteen years I'll have strived and coped

Don't talk of vibrant life more is the lost and forlorn

Picking up putting down I tremble face or run I'm torn

All that was because it's me all that is now I see it's truly me