Ashes Run Gold

I stood where empires fell  
Heard the silence after hell  
Every scar they tried to hide  
Burns like warning signs inside
From every loss I’ve grown  
Turned ruin into stone  
The fire they feared to hold  
Is what I now control
Ashes run gold in the heat of the fight  
I rise through the dark with unshaken light  
They can break my bones, but not my soul  
From the wreckage, I take control  
Ashes run gold — I burn to ignite
I wear my damage loud  
Like thunder in a crowd  
The fall was not the end  
It taught me how to bend
From every loss I’ve grown  
Turned ruin into stone  
The fire they feared to hold  
Is what I now control
Ashes run gold in the heat of the fight  
I rise through the dark with unshaken light  
They can break my bones, but not my soul  
From the wreckage, I take control  
Ashes run gold — I burn to ignite
I’m not the same as who I was  
I bloom in fire, not in applause  
Let the ruins speak my name  
I was born in flame
Ashes run gold in the heat of the fight  
I rise through the dark with unshaken light  
They can break my bones, but not my soul  
From the wreckage, I take control  
Ashes run gold — this is my right  
Ashes run gold — I burn to ignite