In the Ashes

Verse 1

The bells were ringing hollow

In a tower built on fear

Golden words and iron doors

Said the truth was welcome here

But the walls were stacked with silence

And the prayers were bought and sold

Every whisper in the rafters

Knew the story had grown old

Pre-Chorus

Then the night began to tremble

As the sparks climbed toward the sky

And someone turned their shoulder

With a violet in their eyes

Chorus

Let the towers turn to embers

Let the old lies fall apart

Fire writes a different future

Across the sky and through the dark

Not a cry for blood or ruin

Just a breaking of the throne

When the ashes touch the morning

We’ll remember we’re our own

And she’s walking through the firelight

Like she knew it all along

Violet in the ashes

And freedom in her song

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Verse 2

For years they spoke of heaven

While they tightened every chain

Built their thrones from borrowed faith

And called the doubters vain

But truth is patient thunder

And the spark was always there

In the quiet, in the questions

In the ones who wouldn’t swear

Pre-Chorus

Now the spire cracks like lightning

And the smoke begins to rise

And the night itself is changing

In the glow of violet eyes

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Chorus

Let the towers turn to embers

Let the old lies fall apart

Fire writes a different future

Across the sky and through the dark

Not a cry for blood or ruin

Just a breaking of the throne

When the ashes touch the morning

We’ll remember we’re our own

And she’s walking through the firelight

Like she knew it all along

Violet in the ashes

And freedom in her song

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Bridge

Every empire built on silence

Thinks it’s carved in sacred stone

But the smallest spark of courage

Can remind us we’re our own

And when the smoke clears in the morning

Where the shadow once had grown

We will build a thousand futures

Where no truth must stand alone

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Final Chorus

Let the towers turn to embers

Let the old lies fade away

From the ashes grows a morning

No one’s faith can cage again

And she’s standing in the firelight

While the broken bells are gone

Violet in the ashes

And a brand new world begun