Day by day, watching you disappear
Wishing that you were still here beside me
On my own, swimming against the tide
There's nobody on my side but your memory

Then you'll rise right before my eyes
On wings that fill the sky
Like a pheonix rising
Like a pheonix rising

Wings on fire, tearing into the night
Screaming into the light of another day
Carry me out the hurricane
Into the smoke and flame and we'll fly away

And we'll rise right before their eyes
On wings that fill the sky
Like a pheonix rising
Like a pheonix rising

Higher, higher, hear the thunder roar from above
Fire, fire, fire makes me whole
Into the smoke and flame and we'll fly away

And we'll rise right before their eyes
On wings that fill the sky
Like a pheonix rising
Like a pheonix rising
Wings on fire, tearing in to the night
And we'll fly away


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Phoenix Rising Lyrics as written by Ralph James Murphy Jeffrey Bruce Waters

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    this song is amazing, why has no one commented it? Definatly a song about lost love and then finding love you all suck

    skater-maton July 03, 2007   Link
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    What a great song! It caught my soul from the very first notes. The song feels like they are using drugs or something... Fire, fire, the smoke and flames... Do you think it's has something with the use of heroine?

    GSimenonon August 06, 2007   Link
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    My feelings are that this is a song about grief after the death of a loved one and looking foward to being with them again in the afterlife

    theelphon April 07, 2018   Link

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