A:08 - 08. Ashes of Eden (War) By Echo Grey V.03

Verse 1: Fields once green, now blackened and scorched, Where poppies rise from earth’s charred porch. Boots press deep in the mud’s thick bile, And the sky weeps dust for a weary mile. Chorus: Ashes of Eden, where peace once grew, The ground holds the echoes of blood’s dark hue. Ashes of Eden, the end of prayer, We build new graves where the old dreams tear. Verse 2: “Charge!” cried the sergeant, his voice edged in lead, But courage dissolved where the gunfire fed. The letters sent home now inked with despair, Our mothers’ tears tangled in barbed-wire air. Bridge: The shell-shocked dawn drifts silent and grey, Where ghosts line the trenches in spectral array. “Dulce et decorum,” they told us, once proud, Yet honor’s in ashes, the trumpets unbowed. Chorus: Ashes of Eden, where peace once grew, The ground holds the echoes of blood’s dark hue. Ashes of Eden, the end of prayer, We build new graves where the old dreams tear. Outro: And though we return, with eyes glazed and cold, The ashes of Eden are stories retold.