This is surrender
To a war-torn life I’ve lived.
Scars and stripes forever
In need of change I can’t resist.

No need to hide anything anymore.
Can’t return to who I was before.

I can finally breathe.
Suddenly alive.
I can finally move.
The world feels revived.

This long of a struggle
Finally opened up my eyes.
Revolution’s not easy
With a Civil War on the inside.

No need to hide anything anymore.
Can’t return to who I was before.

I can finally breathe.
Suddenly alive.
I can finally move.
'Cause I realize.

I can finally breathe.
Suddenly alive.
I can finally move.
The world feels revived.


Christian · Milligan · Anberlin

Behind the Song:
'Lyrically this is one of my favorites, so many stories came together to write this. Initially it was about a soldier coming home from war, then it was about someone getting out of a bad relationship, then it just became a song about changing something in your life that needed to be changed; Something that was slowly taking the breath out of your lungs and suffocating me. Universal tried to get Taylor Swift to record this after we put it out, she never did.' - Stephen Christian