[Verse 1]
Ravens carve the winter sky
Names are spoken
Then they die
Silver wolves in fields of red
Crowns are heavy made of dread
Steel on stone at break of day
Fathers’ ghosts along the way
Broken vows in candlelight
Wine like blood in halls tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
Who will hold
When the cold
Comes to call us home?
[Chorus]
On thrones of ash and snow
Every promise turns to smoke
We rise
We fall
We choke
On the words we swore in oaths we broke
Love in a world of knives
Cuts through a thousand lies
We burn
We bleed
We know
We’re only kings for crows
[Verse 2]
Girls who learned to dance with blades
Boys who prayed and then betrayed
Mothers trading guilt for grace
Gold that hides a rotting face
Fire sleeping in the vein
Dreams are dragons
Wild and chained
Every truth a sharpened stone
Every heart a siege-worn throne
[Pre-Chorus]
Who will stay
When the flames
Turn our flags to coal?
[Chorus]
On thrones of ash and snow
Every promise turns to smoke
We rise
We fall
We choke
On the words we swore in oaths we broke
Love in a world of knives
Cuts through a thousand lies
We burn
We bleed
We know
We’re only kings for crows
[Bridge]
All the songs they sing of glory
Leave the broken out of the story
But the quiet ones who lived
Who lost
Know the crown is not worth the cost (oh no)
[Chorus]
On thrones of ash and snow
Every promise turns to smoke
We rise
We fall
We choke
On the words we swore in oaths we broke
Love in a world of knives
Cuts through a thousand lies
We burn
We bleed
We know
We’re only kings for crows
We’re only kings
For crows