[Verse 1]
Silver roofs
River glass
Market smoke
Laughing brass
Six proud banners in the dawn
Turn and twist
Then carry on
Ash and amber on the wind
Blades and blessings
Kith and kin
Lantern eyes above the wall
Watching every rise and fall
[Chorus]
This is my dangerous heaven
Soft as a prayer
Sharp as a blade
Six duchies circle the seventh
Crown like a star I never escaped
Cut me
I bleed in its colors
I run
But it beats in my lungs
This kingdom breaks me and holds me
This broken
Golden place is home
[Verse 2]
Stonework saints with weathered scars
Bless the drunkards and the guards
Witches trading charms for bread
Kids play battles
Crown on head
Wolfsong riding through the pines
Graveyard roses twist the vines
Every chapel
Every inn
Hides a little saint of sin
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] I know the secret alleys
Names carved in the stable doors
I’ve kissed beneath the gallows
Sworn love in the barracks’ roar
[build] If I fall
Lay me under
Where the six roads meet the throne
Carve it deep in crooked letters
“I was scared of this place
But I called it home”
[Chorus]