I Need No Miracles

Lyrics

[Intro 🔥][Energy: Mid]
(driving guitar riff — Stricken DNA immediate)
(drums lock in hard)
(the sound of a man making a decision)

[Verse 1 🔥][Energy: Mid-High]
(controlled vocal — intensity building)
310 pounds
And I was watching television
Watching other people
Lose the weight
I couldn't lose

Lottery ticket thinking
Fat farm dreaming
If only something
Would come along
And save me
From myself

Waiting for the miracle
That wasn't coming
Wishing for the door
To open
From the outside

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build]
(drums tighten, riff drives harder)
Then one night
In a hospital bed
That was supposed to be
A one day thing

I saw it clearly
For the first time
The future
Nobody warned me
About

[Chorus 🔥][Energy: Explosive]
(riff HITS full — controlled devastation)
I wasn't going to die young
I was going to live sick
I wasn't going to die young
I was going to live sick

And that
Was worse

I need no miracles
I need no lottery
I need no television show
To save me
From me

I need no miracles
I just need
To begin

[Verse 2 🔥][Energy: Mid-High]
(riff continues driving)
Miserable night
In that hospital room
Staring at a ceiling
That had nothing
To offer

And something shifted
Not dramatic
Not a vision
Not a voice

Just a man
Getting tired
Of waiting
For something
That was never
Going to come

And deciding
That the only miracle
Available to him
Was the one
He made
Himself

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build]
(bass locks tighter, drums build)
Next morning
I went home
And I walked
Around the block

That was all
Just the block
Just one time
Just begin

[Chorus 🔥][Energy: Explosive]
I wasn't going to die young
I was going to live sick
I wasn't going to die young
I was going to live sick

And that
Was worse

I need no miracles
I need no lottery
I need no fat farm
To fix me

I need no miracles
I just needed
To begin

[Bridge 😭][Energy: Low]
(riff drops — single guitar note)
(vocal close, almost spoken)
Ten months

(beat)

Eighty pounds

From walking around the block
To running 5ks
On a whim

Just go out
And run

(drums enter slow)
Nobody gave that to me
No show
No surgery
No miracle

Just one morning
After one miserable night
One decision
One block
One step

And then another

[Bridge 🔥][Energy: Explosive]
(full band CRASHES back)
The miracle I was waiting for
Was always
Just the beginning
I kept
Refusing
To make

So I made it
One day
One block
One pound
At a time

And the miracle
Showed up
After I did

[Final Chorus 🔥🔥][Energy: Explosive]
(overwhelming — riff doubled, vocal full release)
I wasn't going to die young
I was going to live sick
That was the night
I decided
That wasn't
My life

I need no miracles
I am the miracle
I need no lottery
I bought my own ticket
One step
At a time

I need no miracles
I just needed
To begin

And I did
And I did
And I did

[Outro 🔥][Energy: Mid][Abrupt End]
(riff driving to the wall)
(single vocal over the top)

No miracles

Just begin