Shadows and Fire

Steel hearts pound like ancient drums Through the ash the future hums A furnace breathes in shattered skies Iron gods with burning eyes Shadows and fire Climbing higher Through the dark we walk We crawl Shadows and fire Our desire This is the rise before the fall In the woods the whispers grow Echoes of a world we’ll never know Branches twist like fingers of death Cold winds steal your final breath Shadows and fire Climbing higher Through the dark we walk We crawl Shadows and fire Our desire This is the rise before the fall Blood-stained moon in the pitch-black stream Nothing is real but the dying dream Lovers kiss beneath a tombstone’s glow In the graveyard of the things we’ll never show Shadows and fire Climbing higher Through the dark we walk We crawl Shadows and fire Our desire This is the rise before the fall Fractured light in the abyss we chase Embers whisper secrets of disgrace No redemption in the scorched domain Only echoes of eternal pain Rusted chains bind the forsaken soul Flames devour what once was whole Echoes scream in the void's embrace Eternal night, no saving grace Shadows and fire Climbing higher Through the dark we walk We crawl Shadows and fire Our desire This is the rise before the fall In shadows we fade, the fire dies low The rise is broken, the fall we know Whispers silenced in the endless pyre Shadows and fire, our empire