Ashes Crown

I woke in the ruin
With dust on my tongue
The altar was shattered
The bells had all hung
Your name in the rafters
Like smoke in the beams
I carried the fracture
You carried my dreams

And the sky kept bleeding
Over frozen stone
I heard your heartbeat
Then I heard my own

Ashes crown
Ashes crown (ashes crown)
We rise in the wreckage
We kneel to the sound
Ashes crown
Ashes crown (ashes crown)
My heart is a tomb
And your ghost pulls me down

Black wings in the nave
And the candles fell low
I screamed through the marble
Too proud to let go
Your letters were relics
Your breath was a psalm
Now sorrow is iron
And I wear it in my palms

Still the choir ascends
Through the broken air
I reach for your shadow
But you are not there

Ashes crown
Ashes crown (ashes crown)
We rise in the wreckage
We kneel to the sound
Ashes crown
Ashes crown (ashes crown)
My heart is a tomb
And your ghost pulls me down

Tear the veil
Let it crack
Drag me under
Bring you back
Cold hands, red vows
Stone by stone
I was buried
I was shown
No mercy
No dawn
Only this
Only the storm

Ashes crown
Ashes crown (ashes crown)
We rise in the wreckage
We kneel to the sound
Ashes crown
Ashes crown (ashes crown)
My heart is a tomb
And your ghost pulls me down