Soiree Virtualis

I was trying to find the lyrics for this song, which I just loved and I couldn’t find it anywhere. The only thing I found is the CC on youtube, but we all know it is not that reliable. So I transcribed it here:

We were born where the warning lights glow,
Raised on promisses nobody owned.
Still we run where the wild winds blow.
Still we rise from the undertow.

We grew up under siren skies,
With tired homes and open eyes.
They told us wait, they told us smile,
They said the climb was worth the miles.

But the ladder cracked, the roof gave way.
The old road washed out yesterday.
So we built a bridge from broken things,
And learned what holding on can bring

We’re not made of glass…
We’re not made of gold!
We’re the sparks that survived…
What the night couldn’t hold!

[Chorus]
We are the children of the fire,
Running with the smoke in our lungs!
Hearts like drums on a high wire,
Still too loud, still too young!
We are the ones they said were tired,
We are the proof they got it wrong!
Burning brighter under preassure,
Turning ashes into song!

They call us soft because we care,
Like kindness means we’re unaware.
But we’ve seen hard and we’ve seen cold,
We’ve watched the future getting sold.

So don’t mistake the open hand,
For someone who won’t make a stand.
Love can roar and hope can bite,
When it’s cornered in the night.

We bend, we bruise,
We still breakthrough.
No shame, no fear,
We’re still here.

[Chorus]

For every kid they called dramatic,
For every dream they called naive.
For everyone who kept on standing
When the room told them to leave.

For the voices in the margins,
For the ones who changed the key.
For the hearts that stay toghether
When the world said choose a team.

We don’t need permission!
We don’t need a throne!
We don’t need a savior,
We can carry our own!
There’s a fire in the basement,
There’s a song in the street!
There’s a thousand little futures,
Getting back on their feet!

[solo]

[Chorus]

We were born where the warning lights glow,
We won’t die where the old fear grows.
Still we run where the wild winds blow,
Still we rise from the undertow.

There are two mistakes on the CC of the video I’d like to share. The first one is right in the first sentence – and it repeats at the first sentence of the last strofe too. She clearly says “We were born where the warning lights glow”, but the CC gets it as “wild lights”:

The second one is on the Chorus. This one almost got me. I was pretty sure she said “Still too loud, still too young!”, but when I read the CC saying “Still too lost, still too young!” I almost heard like that. It took me some repeats to clarify this one. She says loud, not lost! 🙂

Credit of the main Image: Spotify
Prints taken from the Youtube video
Originally published on 06/26/2026