Crown of Cinders (Ryuu's Rock Theatrical Performance)

[Intro] [Spoken] I won every war they gave me. Every. Single. One. And when the killing was done — when the borders were clean and the banners were hanging — they sent three men in the dark to finish me. ...Three. [Verse 1] I built this kingdom brick by bone every border earned, every inch my own I put the crown on someone else's head and asked for nothing — that's what they said [Pre-Chorus] But power doesn't thank you when it's fed it just gets hungry and forgets the dead and soldiers don't get monuments — they get replaced [Chorus] I am the fire they couldn't keep contained I am the blade that broke the hand that trained You built your peace on everything I paid Now watch the crown of cinders burn away [Spoken] I didn't come back for revenge. ...I came back because it's mine. All of it. Everything I won with my hands — my blood — my years — Mine. [Verse 2] They wrote my name out of the history rewrote the war, remade the victory a warlord's useful 'til the peace is signed then suddenly the sword's a liability [Pre-Chorus] So here I stand outside the gates I built with nothing left to lose and no more guilt and every man who called me weapon — tool — is going to learn what weapons do [Chorus] I am the fire they couldn't keep contained I am the blade that broke the hand that trained You built your peace on everything I paid Now watch the crown of cinders burn away [Bridge] I fought because I thought it meant something — some line drawn between the just and wrong I was twenty-three the first time I believed that ...I'm thirty-two now. Every scar I carry has a name every battle cost me something they'll never pay back and I am done — I am done — [Final Chorus] I am the fire they couldn't keep contained I am the blade that broke the hand that trained You built your peace on everything I paid Now watch the crown — watch the crown — ...burn.