[Intro] [Verse 1] I wore your vow like a blade at my throat Black silk burned through the pulse of my skin We knelt in the dust of a ruined saint And called that ruin a way to begin Your hands were winter with wedding rings My mouth was a chapel of dying light We kissed like heirs of a poisoned throne Then left each other to haunt the night [Pre-Chorus] Now I walk where the crows have crowned the wall Past the iron gate and the weeping stone One bright star over the slaughtered sky And I am left to wear it alone [Chorus] Brightest lone star I burn alone Brightest lone star I walk home cold No more vows No more blood Only this fire In the dust I love [Interlude] [Verse 2] The castle remembers our velvet grief Its windows still bleed with a royal red There, the mirrors kept our ravening And the dead old roses beside the bed I saw your shadow in the candle smoke Like a priest in love with a pagan dream But the altar cracked, and the oath went dark Fell like a crown into blackened stream [Pre-Chorus] Now I cross through the blackened orchard rows Where the fruit hangs low like a bitten heart One bright star over the hollow road And the night just teaches me how to part [Chorus] Brightest lone star I burn alone Brightest lone star I walk home cold No more vows No more blood Only this fire In the dust I love [Bridge] If love was a grave, I have lain in it If death was a bride, I have kissed her veil I am not saved, I am not gone I am the echo that will not fail Raise your glass to the cracked-lipped moon Let the saints turn pale in their golden sleep I was made from the ash between us two I was born to the dark I keep [Final Chorus] Brightest lone star I burn alone Brightest lone star I walk home cold No more vows No more blood Only this fire In the dust I love Brightest lone star Still I remain Brightest lone star In loss and flame No more vows No more blood Only this fire Calling my name [Outro] I walk alone I walk alone Brightest lone star In the ruin I own
