[Intro – soft acoustic guitar picking, distant violin drone] By the river where the embers glow, I left a story no one knows, Carved my name into the stone, Watched it fade, I was alone. [Verse 1 – acoustic strumming, violin faint counter-melody] Every step I tried to find, Pieces of a broken time, Shadows fall, the daylight burns, But I still walk — the world still turns. [Chorus – fuller guitar strum, violin soaring melody] Ashes on the river, carried far away, Dreams that I delivered, never chose to stay, Hold me in the silence, where the night is kind, Ashes on the river, leave it all behind. [Verse 2 – stripped guitar + violin pizzicato accents] I heard your voice across the rain, A quiet echo filled with pain, But echoes fade and rivers run, No turning back, what’s done is done. [Chorus – layered strum, violin rising with tremolo] Ashes on the river, carried far away, Dreams that I delivered, never chose to stay, Hold me in the silence, where the night is kind, Ashes on the river, leave it all behind. [Bridge – violin solo, urgent strums building tension] Ooooh, the fire took the night, Ooooh, the dawn won’t make it right, But I still breathe, and I still try, To let the ashes fly. [Final Chorus – full strumming, violin soaring high harmony] Ashes on the river, carried far away, Dreams that I delivered, never chose to stay, Hold me in the silence, where the night is kind, Ashes on the river… leave it all behind. [Outro – gentle guitar arpeggio, violin soft fade] By the river where the embers glow… I let the ashes go.
