No Fire Returned (Live)

[Verse 1] Engines blaze as steel meets steel, In broken trust, I feel what’s real. Shots ring out — but not from me, I stand alone and let them be. I raised him up to walk the line, To think, to choose, to hold what's mine. But oaths can twist beneath old pride— And even love gets weaponized. [Chorus] Ash and silence, fire withheld, I won’t be queen of lands in hell. He struck first, but I won’t reply— Some truths outlive the need to try. [Verse 2] A child’s cry in the far-off street, And I recall why I don't retreat. Not all wars end when weapons cease— But I won’t trade the weak for peace. He calls it duty. Calls me blind. Says I betrayed what made us kind. But I see clearer, calm and true— What breaks him won’t remake me too. [Chorus] Ash and silence, pride and pain, Let blood be mine, not theirs again. Once my kin, now bound by flame, I answer not, I take the blame. [Bridge] Armor cracked, the coolant spills, My frame goes still upon the hills. His lance alight, he makes his stand— But I leave nothing in my hand. The world will say I lost this fight— But only I know what was right. No fire returned. No hatred sown. My body breaks. My soul goes home. [Verse 3] I close my eyes. I hear the sky. And wait for stars to pass me by. He lives — and maybe time will show Why I chose not to strike that blow. [Final Chorus] Ash and silence. Truth and breath. No banners rise, no grand bequest. But children live, because I fell— And that’s the story I will tell. [Outro] No fire returned. No vengeance sworn. In my surrender, change is born. An ember gone — yet seeds remain— To bloom where none remember pain.