[Verse 1]
Cold floor
Gold dreams on the mattress
I was eating from the same pot
Now we talking about a palace
Bare feet
On broken glass habits
Every step that I bled on
Turned red carpets in the banquet
They laughed
When I mapped out planets
Said, โYou? You ainโt built for that canvasโ
Now they scroll through the highlights frantic
Trying to study every move like a campus
Candle in a blackout, that was me
Writing in the margins I was never meant to read
Had to turn the doubt to a doctrine
Now the whole world quoting my problems as options (yeah)
[Chorus]
I built a throne in the ashes (throne in the ashes)
Turned every cut to a crown on my head (on my head)
They tried to bury my name under granite and matches
I came alive from the fire they fed
I got a war in my chest like a drumline
Heart still marching ahead
I built a throne in the ashes, the battle is pastime
Long as I breathe, Iโm never dead
[Verse 2]
Look
Storm hit, I was out in the open
Face numb, but the heart still smoking
Hands up, I was fighting my shadow
Every fear that I had got broken
Tears on the contract, stains on the page
Had to sign with the sweat of my rage
Every โnoโ was a nail in the cage
โTil I snapped those bars and I walked off the stage (hey!)
Now itโs banners from the rafters
Name carved deep in the rafters
Same kid talking back to the pastor
Now Iโm preaching to the pain of the masses
Mama praying in a language I donโt know
But I feel every syllable push my soul
If the sky fall, Iโma stand in the smoke
โCause I was born from it, I donโt choke
[Chorus]
I built a throne in the ashes (throne in the ashes)
Turned every cut to a crown on my head (on my head)
They tried to bury my name under granite and matches
I came alive from the fire they fed
I got a war in my chest like a drumline
Heart still marching ahead
I built a throne in the ashes, the battle is pastime
Long as I breathe, Iโm never dead
[Bridge]
Yeah
Line up the giants, Iโll face โem all
I was never meant to be small
If I fall, I fall like a monument
Crack the earth when I crawl
Every scar is a banner I wave
Every loss is a digit I save
Add it up, I was built for the weight
If itโs fate, then Iโm bending the fate
[Chorus]
I built a throne in the ashes (throne in the ashes)
Turned every cut to a crown on my head (on my head)
They tried to bury my name under granite and matches
I came alive from the fire they fed
I got a war in my chest like a drumline
Heart still marching ahead
I built a throne in the ashes, the battle is pastime
Long as I breathe, Iโm never dead (never dead)