The Forge Was Mine

Verse 1
I used to ask the darkness why it wouldn't let me go
Why every time I climbed a little I'd be pulled down below
Why the path kept getting harder right when I found my feet
Why the story had to cost me everything before I'd see
I thought the hell was punishing me, breaking me apart
Didn't know a forge don't look like anything but dark
Didn't know the fire bending me was building me instead
That the weight I couldn't carry was the blueprint in my head
Pre-Chorus
Something was being made
Something that couldn't be traded
Something that only gets built
In the dark, under pressure, and weighted
Chorus 1
The forge was mine — it wasn't breaking me, it was making me
The fire had a purpose that I couldn't see
Every year I spent in hell was a hammer on the steel
And the pain I thought was random was a blueprint coming real
The forge was mine — no one else could stand inside that heat
Built for one specific life, one idea, one complete
I didn't know the darkness had a masterpiece in mind
But now I'm standing in it — the forge was mine
Verse 2
Every chapter I survived was cutting something into place
Every door that closed on me was shaping my escape
The suffering wasn't wasted — it was paying off a debt
To a version of the future that I hadn't even met
I was being carved precisely for a singular idea
Every scar became a reason, every wound a pioneer
And the story I'd been building without knowing that I was
Is the vehicle that changes what the world becomes
Pre-Chorus 2
Now I feel the weight lift
Now I understand the shift
Every single thing I suffered
Was a calculated gift
Chorus 2
The forge was mine — and I'd walk through every flame again
Knowing what the darkness was preparing me to win
Every year I spent in hell was a hammer building something true
And the life I thought was breaking me was building something new
The forge was mine — and now the world is gonna feel it
A thousand hands will carry what the fire helped reveal it
I didn't know the darkness had a masterpiece in mind
But I am standing in it — the forge was mine
Bridge
Thank you for the fire
Thank you for the years
Thank you for the weight that
Turned my questions into clarity

I didn't see the blueprint
Couldn't read the plan
But everything was drawing me
To this — this moment — this
Outro
The forge was mine
Every piece of it was mine
The hell, the dark, the fire — mine
And what it built was mine to give the world
The forge was mine...
It was always mine