[Verse 1]
Ash in the teeth of the morning
Sky hangs heavy as a funeral bell
Billboards peeling like dead skin
Every promise on the ground
Children play in flooded tunnels
Graffiti prayers already blurred
Rust-bit bridges lean and groan
Every river tastes like words unsaid
[Chorus]
We wear a crown of rust
Emperors of empty malls
Bone-white towers
Cracking in the quiet
End times blooming in the concrete dust
I will watch it fall
I will not look away
While the fires learn our names
[Verse 2]
Feral dogs on the courthouse steps
Chewing flags into quiet rags
Neon saints with broken faces
Flicker over empty tracks
Churches turning into storage
Pews stacked high with shattered screens
Scriptures traded for receipts
Hope discounted
Never free
[Chorus]
We wear a crown of rust
Emperors of empty malls
Bone-white towers
Cracking in the quiet
End times blooming in the concrete dust
I will watch it fall
I will not look away
While the fires learn our names
[Bridge]
Let the highways choke on silence (hey)
Let the glass gardens starve
Let the last song rot on a server
Buried under landslide data
If this is the age of endings
Let it end inside my ribs
Heart like a stalled machine
Grinding through this final hymn
[Chorus]
We wear a crown of rust
Emperors of empty malls
Bone-white towers
Cracking in the quiet
End times blooming in the concrete dust
I will watch it fall
I will not look away
While the fires learn our names (oh)
While the fires learn our names