Verse 1 At the gate where shadows fed On the vows of living and dead I stood with blood upon my hand And all the ruin of this land The altar shook, the old names cried The ancient hunger rose inside And every soul they bound in pain Turned toward the light and strained its chain Pre-Chorus This is the hour This is the cost What was inherited Can still be lost Chorus Breaking the pact Breaking the chain Ending the hunger Ending the reign All that was buried All that was planned Falls with the blood Of the damned Verse 2 I saw the faces come and go The proud, the cruel, the bent, the broke Not only monsters, not only thieves But all who chose what darkness leaves And in that tide of wrath and grief I found the smallest shard relief That even now, at ending’s door A soul may choose to serve no more Pre-Chorus This is the fire This is release What was forged in terror Can be unmade in peace Chorus Breaking the pact Breaking the chain Ending the hunger Ending the reign All that was buried All that was planned Falls with the blood Of the damned Bridge Take the crown of borrowed night Take the throne of poisoned light Take the lies that fed this flame I return them all in shame No more daughters sold to fear No more ghosts bound year to year No more holy mouths of fraud No more kings who barter God Final Chorus Breaking the pact Breaking the line The curse is ended The cost is mine Out of the ashes Out of the flame Rise the forgotten Freed of their name Outro And when the final silence came It did not speak my death But dawn And all the shadows At long last Were gone
