Hollow Thrones

*(Verse 1)(female vocal)*

Ashes fall where gardens grew,

The shepherds drink from poisoned dew.

Silent bells in broken hands,

Puppets bleeding silver strands.

*(Pre-Chorus)(female)*

Rust-fed kings carve glass from bone,

Whispered lies on hollow thrones.

*(Chorus)(female)*

March through the ruin, laugh through the flood,

Worms wear the crowns, and the soil drinks blood.

Sing for the blind men building the pyres,

Fueling their thrones with their own funeral fires.

*(Verse 2)(male vocal)*

Crimson ink on crumbling laws,

Smiling mouths with broken jaws.

The hunters sleep in the lambs’ skin tents,

Trade tomorrow for a dead man’s rent.

*(Pre-Chorus)(male)*

Rust-fed kings carve glass from bone,

Whispered lies on hollow thrones.

*(Chorus)(male)*

March through the ruin, laugh through the flood,

Worms wear the crowns, and the soil drinks blood.

Sing for the blind men building the pyres,

Fueling their thrones with their own funeral fires.

*(Bridge - breakdown, whispered and then screamed)*

*(Male vocal)*

Threads snap —

Statues crack —

*(female vocal)*

Dreams drown —

We'll burn it down.

*(Heavy Instrumental Break)*

*(Final Chorus)(female and male vocal)*

March through the ruin, drown in the flood,

Laugh as the kingdom sinks into mud.

Sing for the blind men dancing on wires,

Screaming their prayers to dead empires.

*(Outro - slow and grim)*

*(female and male)*

Hollow thrones…

Ash and bone…

We are the storm…

*(female vocal)*

We are the stone.