Veil of Ashes

Verse 1

Smoke still clings to yesterday

Where my innocence burned away

Hands of fire, lips of lies

I learned to breathe in dying skies

Pre-Chorus

I wore your truth like borrowed skin

But ashes always settle in

Chorus

Under the veil of ashes

I learned to see, not pray

Every tear that turned to embers

Showed me how to stay

I won’t kneel inside your ruin

I won’t fade in grey disguise

I rise, unveiled, unbroken

From the veil of ashes

Verse 2

Names were carved into my bones

By voices claiming I was owned

But fire doesn’t beg or plead

It only burns to be free

Bridge (soft → build)

Ashes fall… but I remain

Ashes fall… I feel no chains

Final Chorus

Under the veil of ashes

I found the truth in flame

I am not what you destroyed

I am what remains