Lyrics

I finally Felt I Belonged
By Kristopher Daniel Pinnell

The first layer of me
Was buried under cities
Concrete over childhood
Smoke over memory
But every road I travelled
Kept uncovering another name
Another version of myself
Still breathing underneath

My fame

My fame

[Verse 1]
I touched a stone
In Istanbul
Older than
The prayers I knew
Hands long turned to dust
Still resting in
That surface dew
Empires rose around it
Then vanished into earth
Yet somehow
That old silence
Still remembered
My human worth

[Chorus]
My blood was born
In dying stars
Before this planet
Learned my name
Iron forged
In ancient fire
Still burning through my veins
A grain of dust
Became a man
A man became a song
And somewhere in the cosmic dark
I finally felt
I belonged

[Verse 2]
There are ruins
Underneath me
There are lovers in my skin
There are ghosts inside my voice
There are wars
I didn’t win
But every scar
Became a layer
Every fracture let in light
All the selves
I tried to bury
Still carried me through
The night

[Chorus]
My blood was born
In dying stars
Before this planet
Learned my name
Iron forged
In ancient fire
Still burning through my veins
A grain of dust
Became a man
A man became a song
And somewhere in the cosmic dark
I finally felt
I belonged

[Verse 3]
I do not need forever
To prove that I was real
I do not need perfection
To justify what I feel
The universe kept building
Through every loss and flame
And after all these centuries
I’m still becoming my name

[Outro]
The first layer of me
Was buried under cities
Concrete over childhood
Smoke over memory
But every road I travelled
Kept uncovering another name
Another version of myself
Still breathing underneath

My fame

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My fame
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My fame