Ashes don’t ask for mercy

Verse 1

You found me where the light ran thin

where hope was quiet, wearing skin

I let you in like a slow decay

sweet as rot, you chose to stay

I bent like branches in your storm

mistook your chaos for a form

of love that only takes and takes

and calls it truth while something breaks

Pre-Chorus

I swallowed every warning sign

just to say that you were mine

Chorus

You were my first wound, my first war

the kind that leaves you wanting more

I bled in silence, learned to breathe

with shattered lungs and buried grief

Now I rise from what you burned in me

ashes don’t ask for mercy

Verse 2

Your voice still echoes in my bones

like distant drums, like falling stones

but I don’t tremble like before

I’ve learned the shape of every scar

I let the darkness take its toll

it carved a spine into my soul

no longer reaching for your hand

I stand alone—and I still stand

Pre-Chorus

You taught me how to disappear

I taught myself to reappear

Chorus

You were my first wound, my first war

the kind that leaves you wanting more

I broke in ways I couldn’t show

grew roots in places dark and low

Now I rise from what you made me be

ashes don’t ask for mercy

Bridge

I don’t forgive you—I outgrew

the version of me tied to you

You were a fire without a flame

just smoke that whispered through my name

Final Chorus

You were my first wound, not my last

just something buried in my past

Every fracture, every scar

turned me into something hard

Now I stand where you can’t reach

I am ruin. I am peace.

Outro

No light, no savior, no release—

I became my own ending piece