Ashes and Gold

"Ashes and Gold"

(Dark, slow piano melody with a faint, crackling sound of fire)

[Verse 1]
It all began with a spark, you know,
It smoldered until it consumed everything I’d hold.
The warmth became a burning, bitter cold,
A story of us, a tale to be retold,
It all began with a spark, you know,
Now all that’s left is ashes and gold.

[Chorus]
This fire inside me, it still burns,
Like a wound that never truly heals,
I'm waiting for the heat to fade,
But it only grows, and so I learn
That my soul is now a mix of ashes and gold,
Ashes and gold,
Ashes, ashes, ashes...

[Verse 2]
We were broken, I could never forget,
I tried to hide the pieces we left,
But the ghost of your touch, it still lingers,
A shadow on my path, a ghost I can't dismiss.
I'm trying to find myself again, in all of this,
But it hurts... it still hurts.

[Chorus]
This fire inside me, it still burns,
Like a wound that never truly heals,
I'm waiting for the heat to fade,
But it only grows, and so I learn
That my soul is now a mix of ashes and gold,
Ashes and gold,
Ashes, ashes, ashes...

[Bridge]
I walked through a maze in the dark, lost and afraid,
Scared of the choices I’d made,
But I saw a flicker in the haze,
A tiny flame of my own, my own wandering blaze.
I'm not just the ashes, not just the burn.

[Outro]
I'm the light in the dark, the gold in the dust,
I'm the hope that grows from the broken trust.
Ashes and gold...
Ashes and gold...
It still hurts, but I’m learning to be bold.
My soul is now a mix of ashes and gold,
Ashes and gold.