Flames

We go full 80s arena rock. Tempo 122 BPM. Key D major. Big gated snare. Driving tom fills. Synth pad under chorus. Male vocal. Grit in the verse. Soar in the hook. This is not a love song. This is survival carved in steel. Title: Still Standing in the Fire Intro Palm-muted guitar riff. D – G – Bm – A. Big drum fill into verse. Verse 1 Fourteen years old with a circuit in my hand Seventeen building something no one planned They said slow down, pick a safer road I turned the key and let the engine explode South Florida heat in my veins Midnight code running through the pain I learned early no one saves your name You carve it deep in the flame Pre-Chorus I’ve been counted out I’ve been counted down But every time I hit the ground Chorus I’m still standing in the fire Heart wired higher and higher You can’t kill what won’t retire I was born to walk the wire Every scar’s a battle cry Every fall just fuels the fight I don’t fade, I rise Still standing in the fire Verse 2 Cold rooms, white lights on my skin They said this is where it ends Widowmaker at a hundred percent Steel in my chest, but I never bent Three times through the line Watched death blink and step aside Cancer knocking at the door I kicked it down and asked for more Pre-Chorus I don’t bow to fear I don’t disappear When the darkness pulls me near Chorus I’m still standing in the fire Heart wired higher and higher You can’t kill what won’t retire I was born to walk the wire Every scar’s a battle cry Every fall just fuels the fight I don’t fade, I rise Still standing in the fire Bridge I’ve built from nothing, lost it all Watched empires crack and fall Hotel halls and empty bars Late-night dreams beneath the stars They call it luck, they call it fate I call it waking up too late And choosing not to stay down there Breathing hard in burning air Breakdown Strip to drums and vocal. Let him grit this part. I am not the almost man Not the headline they once planned I rewrite what they declare I survive. I repair. Build back in. Big tom run. Final Chorus I’m still standing in the fire Heart wired higher and higher You can’t break what won’t expire I was born to walk the wire Every scar’s a battle cry Every fall just fuels the fight I don’t fade, I rise Still standing Tag Still standing In the fire Guitar solo over chorus progression. Sustain last vocal on “fire.” That’s your anthem. No victim energy. No apology. Just defiance and forward motion.