Sinners at the Cemetery Gate

I walked with my shadows

Down the corridor of rain

Every door I opened

Knew my name and my shame

The mirror kept the faces

Of the lives I left behind

All the sins like rusty needles

In the seams of my mind

At the edge of the grave

Where the cold wind calls my skin

I heard the bonds of truth say

You can still begin

The ground was full of silence

The stars were turning black

But a broken heart can choose the road

And never turn back

I will stay alive

Though the night comes to collect

I will breathe through the new wind

I will rise from the rest

Let the dark tide crave me

Let the thunder call my name

I was bound in the fire

And I still burn through the pain

I will stay alive, I will stay alive

With the weight of my sins and the will to survive

I laid my guilt beside me

Like a crown of sharpened thorns

And I saw that every ending

Was a door being reborn

No saint, no saintly answer

Just a trembling human song

But the will to keep on living

Can still make the shattered strong

I will stay alive, though the night

Comes to collapse

I will breathe through the ruin

I will rise from the wreck

Let the dark try to claim me

Let the thunder call my name

I was born in the fire

And I still burn through the pain

I will stay alive, I will stay alive

With the weight of my sins and the will to survive

If a grave is waiting, let it wait a little more

I am not the bloodless echo of the ghost I was before

I have crossed my own disaster and I have not been undone

There is mercy in the heartbeat, there is light in what I've won

I will stay alive

Though the night comes to collect

I will break through the ruin

I will rise from the red

Let the dark try to claim me

Let the thunder call my name

I was born out of fire

And I still burn through the pain

I will stay alive, I will stay alive

And I choose the dawn tonight