[Intro Instrumental - Haunting strings, soft piano, distant bell tolls, slow and elegiac.] [Intro] Veil of dusk upon my brow, I mourn the love denied me now, Shadows cling where light once shone, A heart betrayed, forever alone. [Verse 1] I walked in halls of gilded pain, No whispered vow could break my chain, A crown of thorns adorned my mind, Their empty words, so cruel, unkind, I wept, I wailed, yet none would hear, My grief, my tears, a sharpened spear, They took my life with traitor’s hand, Unjustly struck, I could not stand. [Pre-chorus 1] And fury burns where sorrow grew, The world denied the love I knew. [Chorus 1] Grief was my shield, my wrath concealed, Through weeping halls, my pain revealed, I clawed at fate with venomed vow, Their silence fed the spite I plow, No solace found in fleeting breath, I danced with shadows, courting death, Their hearts shall break as mine was torn, A widow crowned, forever scorned. [Verse 2] Nagash’s hand plucked me from decay, A pawn reborn, yet still I sway, A Mortarch’s guise upon my frame, Yet still I envy his cold flame, Though power flows where grief commands, I bend, I bow, with spectral hands, Subordinate, my pride constrained, A ghost of wrath still unchained. [Pre-chorus 2] I serve, I rise, but envy burns, My spiteful soul forever turns. [Chorus 2] Black tears I spill, a world in dread, Their living warmth inflames my head, I see their joy and taste my spite, A queen of grief, eternal night, No mortal breath shall go unscathed, Their fleeting love, my teeth have lathed, I weave my sorrow, steel and bane, Their hearts shall echo with my pain. [Instrumental Transition-Choir whispers, funeral drums, piano minor arpeggios, slow crescendo.] [Bridge] Once denied, now forged anew, I rise where none their vows construe, Envy gnaws the mortal clay, Grief, my kingdom, none may stay, I taste the living, seethe, despise, Their fleeting laughter, hateful lies, All joy shall fall beneath my gaze, A crown of shadows, endless haze. [Verse 3] No mercy lingers in my wake, I claim the world for sorrow’s sake, Each pulse of life a bitter thorn, Their fleeting dreams by grief are torn, I float above, yet envy stains, The living world, its fleeting gains, I grasp for more than death can give, In endless night, I curse to live. [Pre-chorus 3] All hearts I see, I long to quell, Their warmth shall fade beneath my spell. [EIC FINAL Chorus] Grief and envy crown my throne, No mortal love shall I condone, Their fleeting breath, a feast of spite, I reign in darkness, endless night, The world shall bend to my lament, All joy consumed, all hope unspent, I am the widow, wrath made true, A queen of grief, and envy too. [Outro Instrumental - Choir fading, funeral bells echo, slow strings, distant wind, ending in solemn silence.]
