Verse 1
With my very first breath, they called me a girl
Their words and the world weighed down on me
They labeled me and put me in a box
They buried me alive, buried my identity

I grew up severed from my truth
Existing in a straitjacket, in a scripted narrative
I look in the mirror and I don’t recognize
The image looking back at me

An internal war, a conflict in my brain
Relentless voices tormenting me
And these physical symptoms I can’t explain
Part of me is truth and part is in denial

Lying bareboned in a pile of ashes
Suffocating in my despair and shame
Pieces of my old self rooted in my soul
I don’t have to lie to myself anymore

Chorus
They tried to burn me alive
But what they failed to realise
Is that I weaponised their fire
I became the flames
Anger fuelled me like gasoline
A rebellion exploded in my mind
I purged their poison from my veins
I’ve had enough of these games

Verse 2
I leaned into the thing that terrified me
And, suddenly my world went silent
All that was left was me standing there
I don’t have to live this way

Shedding the skin of my past
Slashing those she/her pronouns
The weight of long hair removed
My former name fades in the rearview mirror

In public restrooms, I am an alien confined
Why do they force me into one or the other?
Toilet training never prepared me for this
Peeing has become warfare

I’m a boy imprisoned in a foreign body
They’re submerging me, pushing me down
I can’t see, I can’t breathe
In the deep abyss, this is plaguing my reality

Chorus
They tried to burn me alive
But what they failed to realise
Is that I weaponised their fire
I became the flames
Anger fuelled me like gasoline
A rebellion exploded in my mind
I purged their poison from my veins
I’ve had enough of these games

Verse 3
Now, I resist this self-hate
I feel the fear and do it anyway
I refuse to be locked in these chains of normativity
This is my prison break rebellion

My mind is in overdrive, I’m disintegrating
I need testosterone now
So many questions plague my mind
Do I choose hormones or the heartbeat of a child?

How would I know, I’d never even dated
Fucking hell, the pressure to decide
Feels like two walls caving in on me
Conform to society or reclaim my autonomy?

The more I denied it, my body’s wisdom amplified
A visceral knowing deep in these bones
I conceded and got my first injection
I haven’t looked back since then

Chorus
They tried to burn me alive
But what they failed to realise
Is that I weaponised their fire
I became the flames
Anger fuelled me like gasoline
A rebellion exploded in my mind
I purged their poison from my veins
I’ve had enough of these games

Outro
This is my fiery blaze of victory
My voice, my body, my story
The power is in my hands again
This the only the beginning