[Intro]
Candles gutter
On a rusted blade
Dust on the banners
Names already flayed
[Verse 1]
Empty crowns
On a frozen stair
Hollow eyes
In the ashen air
Once they swore
On their molten thrones
Now their vows
Crack like brittle bone
[Chorus]
Only in truth
The lords will fall
Abandon their thrones
Forsake it all
Nameless accursed
Left in the cold
Unfit for the flame
Unfit to be gold
And so it is that ash seeketh embers
In ruins that no one remembers
[Verse 2]
Cinders drift
Through the chapel gate
Rust-red snow
On a fallen saint
Broken shields
Like forgotten prayers
Every step
Is a quiet dare
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[whispered vocals]
Unkindled
Rise
From the quiet pyre
Not chosen
Just caught in the fire
No prophecy
Carved in your skin
Only scars
And the will to begin
[piano and violin swell]
[Chorus]