Copyright 2025 Callison Stratton // Music and lyrics by Callison Stratton // Produced by Eamon Lebow

LYRICS

I walked with my head hung low

I couldn’t see ahead or tell the sky from the snow

And words kept rushing past me like the river after a storm

I was rooted at the crossroads

The fog, it lifted and I unfroze

The ground, it shifted and I found myself again

I was a ponderosa pine, come crashing to the ground

Alone upon this mountain and I never made a sound

Just holding on to the hope I will be found

But an ember caught

and burned the whole thing down

I am a phoenix rising

I can see you now

I played my fingers down to the bone

My fire beating heart had turned into stone

and life was rushing past me like a river after a storm

I thought those empty woods would take me

I thought his promises would break me

But I have risen from the one I was before

I was a ponderosa pine, come crashing to the ground

Alone upon this mountain and I never made a sound

Just holding on to the hope I will be found

But an ember caught

and burned the whole thing down

I am a phoenix rising

I can see you now

I was a ponderosa pine, come crashing to the ground

Alone upon this mountain and I never made a sound

Just holding on to the hope I will be found

But an ember caught

and burned the whole thing down

I am a phoenix rising

I can see you now