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Fire fades
[spoken Intro]
They say the first flame was a miracle.
A moment of heat in a cold, grey world.
But miracles, when you cling to them… become curses.
Thrones were built. Lords were crowned.
And each time the fire began to fade, someone rose to feed it.
Again.
And again.
Until the world itself forgot what warmth felt like—
And all that was left to rise… was ash.
[Verse 1]
A bell tolls low where the thrones stand empty
A kingdom built on a borrowed flame
Lords of cinder, they left their thrones behind them
And the fire fades again, the same
(Chorus)
Ash seeketh embers, that much is true.
A hollow heart reaching for what it knew.
But the fire fades now, and the light grows thin,
And the cycle starts once more—where does it end?
(Verse 2)
Once there were heroes with crowns of sunlight
Once there was warmth in a dying age
Now only ashes mark the road they walked on
A silent world, an open cage
[Chorus]
Ash seeketh embers, that much is true.
A hollow heart reaching for what it knew.
But the fire fades now, and the light grows thin,
And the cycle starts once more—where does it end?
[Bridge]
How many times has the kiln been opened?
How many souls were fed to the pyre?
Each linking just a little less bright...
A little less heat, a little less fire...
[Verse 3]
The ones who rise are dust and memory
They carry names that the world has forgot
They crawl toward thrones that were never theirs to sit on
For a fleeting spark, they give what they’ve got
[Final Chorus]
Ash seeketh embers—it knows no more
A hollowness claws at a mind's door
The flame is a whisper, the throne a grave
And the cycle turns again, with nothing to save
[Music slows and fades on the background]
[Outro]
Ash…
Ash seeketh embers…
Always it seeks…
A crown of cinders.
A throne of dust.
One more hollow reaching for the flame that was.
And when that spark is fed,
When the sky burns one last time.
What remains?
[A long pause]
Ash. Only ash.
Waiting. For the next.
(Fading whisper)
Seek… seek… lest the fire fade…
[instrumetal finish]
[end]
