Drummer Andrew Tkaczyk shared the following with Blunt Magazine:
“That song started off, just Vigil had come to my house. He came out to stay with me just to hang and be nerds and play video games in October of 2018. While he was here I knew I wanted to try and do some writing because I had my own...
[Verse]
I'm gonna reclaim all of this
Take it back with both my fists
Too many years passed by while I was stuck in limbo
It felt so stagnant living life in the past tense
It's time to get back up and tear down everything stopping me now
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm more than my mistakes
What more can one man take and still survive?
Face forward into the night
I'm more than my mistakes
What more can one man take? But I'll survive
Face forward into the night
[Chorus]
Thrown into the fire
Like the phoenix reborn, I rise
The new dawn burns brighter
So face forward into the night
[Pre-Breakdown]
I've put up all these walls, no further I could fall
Can I destroy the doubt and still come out on top of it all?
No more "what could have been"
Win the war within
[Breakdown]
Overcome the setback and leave this hollow shell in the past
It's not much, but it's enough
It's a spark, it's a start once again
It's not much, but it's enough
To win the war within
[Bridge]
(I have to let this go, I have to let this end)
(I need to shed my skin, shed my skin and begin again)
I'm more than my mistakes
What more can one man take and still survive?
Face forward into the night
(I have to let this go, I have to let this end)
I'm more than my mistakes
What more can one man take? But I'll survive
Face forward into the night
(I need to shed my skin, shed my skin and begin again)
I'm more than my mistakes
What more can one man take and still survive?
Face forward into the night
I'm more than my mistakes
What more can one man take? But I'll survive
Face forward into the night
[Outro]
Thrown into the fire
Like the phoenix reborn, I rise
The new dawn burns brighter
So face forward into the night
Thrown into the fire
Like the phoenix reborn, I rise
The new dawn burns brighter
So face forward into the night
Thrown into the fire
Like the phoenix reborn, I rise
The new dawn burns brighter
So face forward into the night
Thrown into the fire
Like the phoenix reborn, I rise
The new dawn burns brighter
So face forward into the night
Phoenix Rise was written by Andrew Tkaczyk & Jonathan Vigil.
Phoenix Rise was produced by Will Putney & Jeremy McKinnon.
The Ghost Inside released Phoenix Rise on Fri Jun 05 2020.