Torchlight fails on the seventh stair The air tastes old like ash and oath Stone effigies with hollow stare Row on row in their burial robes I have seen their names above the gate Carved as heroes, crowned as kings But here below behind the grate I find what every legend brings Cracked gauntlets, scattered bone And crowns that melted into skulls These were men who held the throne And fed the fire that always culls The silence of the kings below Whispers through these haunted halls Every throne becomes a grave When the flame demands it all Oathbreaker's tomb Oathbreaker's end Every crown a lie that kings defend The fire chose them The fire fed Now the chosen sleep among the dead Oathbreaker's tomb The cycle turns What the prophecy gives, the prophecy burns I wear their fate upon my brow I know what I am looking at now You found us boy, we wondered when We all came down here just like you We all believed we'd break the chain We all believed the prophecy true I read the stars, I sealed the pact I bled the wyrm to claim the throne I thought the power mine to hold Instead it held me down below The crown does not grant you the flame The crown feeds flame on what you are Your grief, your hunger, pride and pain It brings you down like dying stars The kings all thought the fire theirs The prophecy their guiding hand But every crown becomes a chain And every throne a living hell Oathbreaker's tomb Oathbreaker's end Every crown a lie that kings defend The fire chose them The fire fed Now the chosen sleep among the dead Oathbreaker's tomb The cycle turns What the prophecy gives, the prophecy burns I wear their fate upon my brow I know what I am looking at now Leave the crown, leave it in the dark Let the wyrm sleep another age Walk away with your unmarked heart I cannot, I have turned the page Then you already know our names Then I already know my end Another king fed to the flames Another oath that fire will rend Oathbreaker's tomb Oathbreaker's end I am the lie that crowns defend The fire chose me The fire feeds And the wyrm takes everything it needs Oathbreaker's tomb The cycle turns What the prophecy gives What the prophecy burns The prophecy burns
