CROWN OF SHADOWS

Verse 1

I wake up choking on the smoke of time,

Scars still whispering my name.

Heart of glass but battle-ready,

Angels fall when we play the game.

Under my skin a thousand choirs,

Every voice wants something more.

I was human once, I swear—

Now I’m knocking on another door.

Pre-Chorus

They say, “Run before you burn alive,”

But fire’s always felt like home.

Chorus

I wear the crown of shadows,

Forged in guilt and flame.

If the world condemns me,

It just taught me how to reign.

I dance with all my demons,

Call them brothers, call them me.

Between the heaven and the hellfire

I finally learned to be.

Verse 2

Mirrors lie when I scream back,

Show me monsters, not my face.

Every sin’s another lesson,

Regret don’t slow my pace.

I prayed for signs, I begged for truth,

But God went silent in the night.

So I took what still was breathing

And I turned it into might.

Pre-Chorus

If the light refuses my name,

I’ll be the dark that still remains.

Chorus

I wear the crown of shadows,

Forged in guilt and flame.

If the world condemns me,

It just taught me how to reign.

I dance with all my demons,

Call them brothers, call them me.

Between the heaven and the hellfire

I finally learned to be.

Bridge (half spoken / breakdown)

Call me broken, call me cursed,

I survived my own worst verse.

From the ashes, from the dirt,

No salvation ever worked.

(Scream)

I’M NOT PURE—

BUT I’M REAL.

Final Chorus

I wear the crown of shadows,

Heavy, but it’s mine to bear.

No savior, no throne above,

Just my will suspended there.

If I fall, I fall forward,

Devil’s hand still in my own.

I am more than all your fear—

I am fire with a throne.

Outro

Between the heaven and the hellfire

I swore I’d never bend:

Better king of my own darkness

Than an angel in the end.