Throne of Ashen Glass - What The Dark Keeps - Heavy Metal

[Intro]
Cold hall
Candles coughing smoke
Portraits watch
Cracked in gilded oak

[Verse 1]
I walk where the mirrors lean
Each frame a failed prophecy
Dust on abandoned thrones
Dead roses sewn into the seams
Shadows wear my silhouette
Mouthing words I won’t forget

[Chorus]
I built a throne of ashen glass
Sat like a king in the breaking past
Every vow cut deep like shattered sun
Bleeding light from a kingdom undone
If this crown must carve my skin
Let the ruin finally begin

[Verse 2]
Your voice in the chapel vaults
Rings out in a minor curse
Stained glass bleeding rust
Saints looking down in reverse
You said my name like a funeral hymn
Turned every mercy paper-thin

[Chorus]
I built a throne of ashen glass
Sat like a king in the breaking past
Every vow cut deep like shattered sun
Bleeding light from a kingdom undone
If this crown must carve my skin
Let the ruin finally begin

[Bridge]
[Choir swells
Tempo slows]
Kneel in the choir of the faithless
Hands raised to a hollow sky
All of the angels are faceless
Wings made of torn reply
(so hear me)
I trade my heart for a heartbeat
My guilt for a single spark
Set fire to the velvet curtains
Let daylight dissect the dark

[Chorus]
I built a throne of ashen glass
Watched every lie in the mirror collapse
From the wound comes a sudden dawn
Through the fracture a world moves on
If this crown must carve my skin
Let the breaking be where I begin