[Music] no [Music] I stood in the middle of the street and watched everything I had left burn to the ground I could feel the heat on my face smell the smoke choking the air hear the sirens wailing in the distance but I didn't run I didn't cry I just stood there because For the first time in my life I had nothing left to lose but this fire this fire wasn't the first thing to take everything from me I used to have a home a family a life worth living my wife Maria was my heart she
could walk into a room and make it feel like the Sun was shining no matter how dark it was outside and my little boy Elijah he was my whole world he'd sit on my lap while I played my guitar resting his head against my chest and Whisper daddy don't ever stop singing I thought I had forever with them I thought we had time but life as a way of taking the things you love most and leaving you with nothing but memories and pain 8 years ago Maria got sick cancer we had insurance we did everything
right but when the bills got too high they dropped us just like that exceeded policy limits I worked three jobs I sold my truck sold my guitar sold everything I had to keep her alive and then just when I thought things couldn't get worse Elijah got sick too some rare disease the doctors caught too late I buried my wife I buried my son and the debt they left behind buried me the bills didn't stop when they died the calls didn't stop the bank didn't stop but for some reason they didn't take the house maybe they
forgot about me maybe I wasn't worth the trouble for 7 years I lived in that house a ghost in my own life the power got shut off the water stopped running but I still had walls around me a roof over my head and that was enough until the fire came I woke up to Sirens screaming the sky wasn't black it was red I ran outside and saw the Flames swallowing the houses down the block coming straight for me I grabbed what little I had left a few clothes the only picture I had of Maria and
Elijah my old guitar but before I could even make it to the door the heat was already at my back by the time I got out my house the last thing I had left was gone and the worst part the bank still didn't care the insurance I fought to get after they dropped me cancelled some technicality buried in the fine print no payout no help no home and just like that I was back on the streets for the past 3 weeks I've been sleeping under freeway Bridges singing for scraps on the sidewalk just like I
did when I had nothing but if there's one thing I've learned it's this fire can take your home life can take your family it can burn everything you've ever known down to the ground but the one thing it can't take is your voice that's why I'm here tonight not for pity not for sympathy I'm here to sing because no matter how many times life knocks you down no matter how much you've lost as long as you can still breathe you can still fight as long as you can still stand you're not done [Music] yet good
luck [Applause] [Music] Born to Fly but I've fallen down Carri dreams through a shattered town a mangled body a fractured soul searching for light in a world so cold every scar every tears a h a Melody rising from within they tried to bury me but here I stand a broken man with a miking hand take these broken wings let me soore higher than I've ever dared before the world may but I'll still sing Freedom Rising on broken wings street lights echo my night [Music] prayer a prophet lost breathing borrowed air each note I sing is
a fight a cry for the dreamer who refuse to die every scar every tears a him a Melody rising from within they tried to bury me but here I stand a broken man with a Ming hand take these broken wings let me soore higher than I've ever de before the world may but I still sing Freedom Rising on broken wngs no legs to walk but I found my stride in every song My Heart can fight the streets are hard but they're home to me a stage where pain becomes po tree take these broken wings let
me sore through every storm I find sure the world may but I'll still sing Freedom Rising on brok [Applause] [Applause] wow born in Shadows with the cold winds moan mama say of Heaven to remind me of home daddy's hands were strong but his time was brief life gave me Sorrows but I found relief a crash a cry and the night turned black I lost my steps and I couldn't turn back a leg a dream and life Left Behind but the music stayed steady in This Heart of Mine every storm every fall every moment I bled
they thought I'd break but I Rose instead when the silence is loud and you feel you're undone sing your truth and the light will come all right rise again though the weight pulls me low rise again let the pain help me grow my voice is my fire my unbroken will and I'll keep on singing till my heart is still [Music] [Music] I've seen the nights that steal your breath face the hands of hunger and the chill of death they called me forgotten a ghost on the street but I'm more than the story of my age
defeat every scar every bruise every tear that I've cried are the notes in the song that keeps me alive when you're lost in the dark and the end feels near let the music remind you why you're still here I'll rise again though the F pulls me low rise again let the pain help me grow my voice is my fire my unbroken will and I'll keep on singing till my heart is [Music] still let the Echoes ring out let them shatter the night in the Silence of fear be the beacon of light I'm no ghost I'm
no Shadow I'm no whisper in there I'm the voice of survival I'm the answer to prayer [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] wow the dust of the streets clings to my face a broken Propet in a ruthless place but in the silence my soul still sings A Melody Rising on fractured Wings echo of Despair can drown me out my voice is a whisper turned into to shout on The Voice in the dust Rising High singing through the pain under an Open Sky every notes a spark in the darkest night a hym of survival a beacon of light
[Music] Wheels creep beneath me scars Define my skin but every song I sing is where hope begins in the cracks of the pavement Beauty grow a testament to the strength of all is know the Echoes of Despair can't drown me out my voice is a whisper turned into a shout the voice in the dust Rising High singing through the pain under and all and Sky every not a spark in the dark Darkest Night a h of survival a beacon of life like SP un bowed I Rise through S for every broken soul I carry along
they tried to break me but here I stand a broken body but a steady hand I'm the voice in the dust don't forget my name a melody of Hope burning through the FL [Music] [Music] every notes a spark in the darkest night a h of survival a beacon of life wow [Applause]
