[Verse 1]
Silver crib in a vaulted room
They checked my hands for a holy bloom
Mama’s ring
All shine
Went cold
[low vocal register] “She’s empty
” whispered in the gold
Carried out past marble saints
Past painted suns and their perfect grace
Left in the frost where the banners end
Just a nameless girl
Not a kingdom’s friend
[Chorus]
I was born without their shining favor
Born without the shadow they feared
No halo
No hunger for power
Just scars where they kept their mirrors near
Now I stand where the banners used to glimmer
Crown of smoke
In the ruin I sing
I was the rejected little princess
I came back and burned the kingdom clean
[Verse 2]
Raised by crows on the outer farms
Mud on my face
Rope on my arms
Learned how to pray to the falling rain
How to stitch my hurt into someone else’s name
Heard the stories in the tavern glow
Of a “blessed” court built on broken throats
They toasted kings with stolen wine
While my cradle rotted in the pines
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[whispered vocals] Do you see me now
Mother?
Your miracle mistake
I don’t glow
I don’t fade
I just break what you make
No white fire
No black spell
Just a match and an open door to your hell
Your stained-glass saints start to crack and run
When a faithless daughter becomes the flame instead of the sun
[Chorus]