Thrones of Ash and Snow

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

Who will hold

When the cold

Comes to call us home?

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

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

Who will stay

When the flames

Turn our flags to coal?

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

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)

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