Lyrics
Verse 1 (Lara)
I’ve been shaking in the shadows,
Breaking open in the night.
Every thought feels like a battle,
Every breath a losing fight.
People say this path is peaceful,
But it burns me to the bone—
Feels like everything I cling to
Is collapsing into stone.
Verse 1 (Naomi)
I woke one day much softer,
Like a knot had slipped away.
No thunder in the distance,
Just a quiet, spacious day.
I didn’t fall or crumble,
Didn’t tear or lose my ground—
Something simply stopped its holding
When the truth was finally found.
Chorus (Both)
There are two ways through the fire,
Neither right and neither wrong.
One will shake you like the ocean,
One will whisper like a song.
But the flame burns what’s no longer
Meant to shield or meant to stay—
Two ways through the fire,
But it’s one unfolding way.
Verse 2 (Lara)
I thought the pain meant failure,
That I wasn’t doing right—
That the storm inside my ribcage
Meant I’d lost the inner fight.
But you said some hearts unravel
With a violence they learned young—
And the agony is nothing
But old battles being undone.
Verse 2 (Naomi)
And I said your shaking’s valid,
That your breaking isn’t wrong.
Some truths fall like shattered glass,
Others drift like distant fog.
We’re built from different stories,
But the ending’s just the same—
Not a self we must uncover,
Just the dropping of the claim.
Chorus (Both)
There are two ways through the fire,
Neither right and neither wrong.
One will shake you like the ocean,
One will whisper like a song.
But the flame burns what’s no longer
Meant to shield or meant to stay—
Two ways through the fire,
But it’s one unfolding way.
Bridge (Both)
You’re not broken if you’re shaking,
You’re not shallow if you’re still.
Every heart dissolves its armour
In the way it always will.
Not a choice and not a virtue,
Just the body’s honest call—
Two ways through the fire,
But the fire frees us all.
Final Chorus
Two ways through the fire,
Neither better, neither true.
Just the clearing of the old life
So the simple can come through.
Oh the stormer and the soft one,
Walk the same bright road today—
Two ways through the fire,
But it’s one unfolding way.
