Now On YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/video/ZNWRoN_xsOc/edit ©2026 Echo Grove Music. All rights reserved. Lyrics written and owned by Echo Grove Music. ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☽ ✩ ☾ ⋆⁺₊⋆ [Spoken, low and reverent] I am Vohdja... And I am a god... [Verse 1] I have stood at the top of the temple And looked across the gap at the throne I have blessed the swords I could not lift I have crowned the men I could not own They built three pillars to keep us caught They called it balance, they called it grace I call it a cage within holy thought I call it slavery within divine embrace [Pre-Chorus] If the hunger is in me, the hunger is holy If the gods made the desire, this is the way A servant who refuses the weight he is given Is a coward who lets the divine decay [Chorus] Grant me the necessary fire Burn me brighter than weaker men What the temple cannot give me I will take with a brutal hand I am not the thief, I am the answer I am not the wound, I am the cure Three pillars will become one altar And the whole thing will be mine to rule [Verse 2] The book was waiting in the merchant's stall Between the candy and the colored glass As if the gods had set it there for me As if they knew what would come to pass The pages torn, the spell incomplete A name half-faded in the margin's line I found the old man in his quiet village I made him tell me what was mine [Pre-Chorus] If his suffering buys the greater mercy If his silence breaks the longest chain A priest who flinches from the holy butcher Has never understood what gods ordain [Chorus] Grant me the necessary fire Burn me brighter than weaker men What the temple cannot give me I will take with a brutal hand I am not the thief, I am the answer I am not the wound, I am the cure Three pillars will become one altar And the whole thing will be mine to rule [Verse 3] Three stood beside me in the circle The fire came down and the fire was vast It tore them open trying to fit there It chose me, and the choosing held me fast I told myself they were not worthy I told myself the gods had spoken true I gathered three more in the morning And the fire came and burned them through [Bridge] I am Vohdja De Dragan I am the first of the new I wield the force of dragon Burned in my skin, a tattoo At the crossroads you may hear My name spoken in a hush But I will be your nightmare Drawn in ink of blood and rust [Verse 4] They came for me in robes and armor The Senate spoke, the Sword was drawn My brothers in the Temple turned away from me They said my place inside was gone I closed my eyes and saw burning visions Of all the blood and countless dead Then I opened them and made the visions real And I walked out across the dead [Final Chorus] I am the necessary fire I will not call it waste, I will not call it lie What the temple could not give me I will carry till the day I die I am not the exile, I am the verdict I am not the cursed, I am the king Three pillars cast me out together And the altar will remember everything [Outro, spoken] Although I walk away today... Know this... There will be a reckoning someday...
