Ashes to Ignition

I was carving my name in marble

Watching mountains bend down low

Never saw the edge crumble

In the kingdom of stone and snow

Woke with dirt

filling up my teeth

Throne washed away beneath my feet

Gold turns gray

when the ground caves in

Every brother turned stranger within the din

Left with the cold in an empty ditch

There is no pity in the stone

No mercy in the broken bone

If I am breathing in this mire

I drag my marrow through the fire

I fell straight down from the highest spire

Cracked the floor, but I kept the fire

Brick by brick with these bloodied hands I take the crown where

the ruin stands!

(yeah) I take the crown back again

Calloused skin and a stubborn jaw

Trading glory for iron law

Laughed when they saw me carrying stone

Building the temple all alone

Every scar is an empire earned

They buried my title in the dust

Left the iron to turn to rust (ahhhh)

Look at the tower rising tall!

I learned to reign because I learned to fall!

I fell straight down from the highest spire

Cracked the floor, but I kept the fire

Brick by brick with these bloodied hands I take the crown where

the ruin stands! (bring it

back!) I take the crown back again!

From the bottom of the black

To the peak of the ridge

Not an heir anymore

A conqueror