Ashes to Dawn

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We were ashes in the moonlight, we were thunder in the rain,

We were roses in the wreckage, growing wild through all the pain,

We were every reckless promise ever sworn against the night,

Every broken heart still reaching for a fragment of the light.

We were tears upon the altar, we were laughter in the flame,

We were all the doomed believers who still dared to love the same,

And though kingdoms fell around us and the old world turned to dust,

Still our fire burned more brightly than the iron law of rust.

Ashes, thunder and roses,

Blood and beauty and scars,

We were born in the ruin,

But we reached for the stars,

And though death walked beside us,

Love still carried the load,

Through the smoke and the fury,

Through the end of the road.

I was storm, I was hunger,

I was night, I was flame,

But together we became more than sorrow, more than name,

More than all the iron endings written cold against the sky,

We became the kind of fire that does not learn to die.

Ashes for the old world,

Thunder for the pain,

Roses for the promise

That love will rise again.

Ashes, thunder and roses,

Hear the whole sky sing,

For the lost and the faithful,

For the broken-hearted king,

For the girl made of lightning,

For the boy made of rain,

For the love that outlived death

And came roaring back again.

So when the last bell tolls and the last stars close their eyes,

Remember how we loved beneath the ruin of the skies,

For nothing true is buried,

And nothing fierce is done,

Where ashes, thunder and roses

Still burn into one.