[Intro] In his last battle he should have died, bleeding, and burning on the ground. But in the darkest hour the king did hide: one with the child as she drowned. In the mind of the child, a man cried, prisoner, silent, caged and bound. Unliving! [Chorus] The darkest day a child defiled, A waning king inside her mind, Deathly pale, crimson eyed, Embers of wrath deep inside. [Verse 1] Burning cradles in ashen homes, Snuffed before they could rise, Leaving nothing but bones. Silver for every child that dies. Mourning mothers cast aside, Not even their blood had dried. [Chorus] The darkest day a child defiled, A waning king inside her mind, Deathly pale, crimson eyed, Embers of wrath deep inside. [Verse 2] Blooming youth for a splitting mind, One growing, one running out of time. Once dying and yet once more alive, a line of red that made her cry. A maiden, was once a child robbed from the depth of hell. Inside her, thrashing wild the monster king of the thorned crown. [Verse 3] Awakened by a traveller's wandering hand, Lying naked on tainted sand. A Woman was once a child, a king was once a man, Lives forever tied a transformation thus began. clawing at her aching head! [Chorus] The darkest day a child defiled, A waning king inside her mind, Deathly pale, crimson eyed, Embers of wrath deep inside [Verse 4] Every dawn of the moon she did rise, Lock his cage, try to end her life, Again he saved her, kept her alive, His power grew, gnawing inside, Thorns around her head, hands tied, Her only hope: her own demise. [Chorus] The darkest day a child defiled, A waning king inside her mind, Deathly pale, crimson eyed, Embers of wrath deep inside [Verse 5] The monster king rules once more, She raises his sword and shields, thorns cutting her to the core, Razes castles, farms and fields, Wrath burning hot inside, Wishing she could just close her eyes. [Chorus] The darkest day a child defiled, A waning king inside her mind, Deathly pale, crimson eyed, Embers of wrath deep inside [Bridge] A family butchered, blood around her feet, A cry, a scream, the beauty of steel on her tanned skin, The sword resting on a girl's breast, Soul shattered, heart bleeding, but not hers. The dark girl took the sword of the thorned king, Stabbed the child, the woman, the monster in between, Saw her shatter, saw her sigh, she could finally let herself die. [Chorus] The darkest night a child is wild, A warm embrace of a girl so kind, No memory of malice in her mind, Smouldering, ash crumbling inside. [Outro] Cold fingers on living flesh, Her own mistress once again, Can't look at her, won't look away, their bodies one, their souls the same, A kiss never ends in death.