(Verse 1)
I wandered through the shadows where the coldest fires burn,
With a chest of rusted iron and a stone left un-turned.
They said I had no pulse, that my kingdom was the dark,
A creature born of winter, untouched by any spark.
I built my walls of obsidian, guarded every gate,
A master of the silence, a monument to fate.
Then you stepped across the threshold, not a weapon in your hand,
Just the quiet grace of mercy I could never understand.
(Chorus)
And oh, you brought the dawn into my endless night,
Turning all my blinding fury into blinding light.
You looked into the abyss and you didn't turn away,
You whispered through the chaos till the demons had to pray.
With a tenderness so ruthless, and a touch so fiercely true,
You melted down the armor that I welded over you.
Yeah, you broke the hardest spirit that the underworld could claim,
And you learned the gentle music of my long-forgotten name.
(Verse 2)
I tried to push you backward, tried to summon up the storm,
To prove that I was frozen and I never could stay warm.
I handed you the ash, and I showed you all my scars,
Expecting you to shatter and to run beneath the stars.
Instead you kissed the ruin, and you held me through the cold,
And traded all my shadows for a crown of liquid gold.
You didn't ask for perfection, didn't judge the things I'd done,
You just loved the broken pieces till they mirrored back the sun.
(Chorus)
And oh, you brought the dawn into my endless night,
Turning all my blinding fury into blinding light.
You looked into the abyss and you didn't turn away,
You whispered through the chaos till the demons had to pray.
With a tenderness so ruthless, and a touch so fiercely true,
You melted down the armor that I welded over you.
Yeah, you broke the hardest spirit that the underworld could claim,
And you learned the gentle music of my long-forgotten name.
(Bridge)
They say hell hath no fury like a soul consumed by grief,
Until it finds the heaven of an absolute relief.
My chest is cracking open, and the embers start to glow,
It hurts to feel the thawing of the ice of long ago.
I am kneeling in the wreckage of the empire that I made,
Not because you conquered me, but because your love delayed
The darkness from consuming every desperate part of me—
You didn't take my kingdom; you just set my spirit free.
(Guitar Solo / Instrumental Build)
(Chorus)
And oh, you brought the dawn into my endless night,
Turning all my blinding fury into blinding light.
You looked into the abyss and you didn't turn away,
You whispered through the chaos till the demons had to pray.
With a tenderness so ruthless, and a touch so fiercely true,
You melted down the armor that I welded over you.
Yeah, you broke the hardest spirit that the underworld could claim,
And you learned the gentle music of my long-forgotten name.
(Outro)
Yeah, the devil's heart is beating, and it's beating just for you.
From the ashes and the iron, there's a brand new start in view.
No more sulfur, no more sorrow, only heav
