[Verse 1] I kept the match in a locket of rain, promised my hands I’d be kinder to flame. But doors that matter don’t open for safe— they open for hearts that can carry the change. [Pre-Chorus] So I laid my pretty fears like tinder in a ring, named every one, then whispered: begin. [Chorus] I will love the ash, not only the fire, hold what the letting-go leaves in the choir. Smoke on my shoulders, gold in the cracks, I step through the heat and I don’t look back. I will love the ash—lesson and light, kiss every ending that made me right. If this is the price, I’ll pay it in breath— love the ash, and rise from its rest. [Post-Chorus Chop] love the ash—love the ash—love the ash… [Verse 2] Pictures curl up like prayers on the floor, names become sparks as they lift from my throat. Grief is a kiln where the fragile gets forged— what couldn’t be held becomes something I hold. [Pre-Chorus] If memory stings, let memory sing, what burned away gave room for a wing. [Chorus] I will love the ash, not only the fire, hold what the letting-go leaves in the choir. Smoke on my shoulders, gold in the cracks, I step through the heat and I don’t look back. I will love the ash—lesson and light, kiss every ending that made me right. If this is the price, I’ll pay it in breath— love the ash, and rise from its rest. [Bridge] (drums drop → bowed-cymbal swell) Take what I can’t keep, give what I can be, open like a furnace to the better me. Hands up to the scorch, face to the dawn, ashes spell my name and I read it on. [Chorus – Lift] I will love the ash, not only the fire, choirs of ember humming me higher. Smoke on my shoulders, gold in the cracks, I step through the heat and I won’t look back. I will love the ash—lesson and light, kiss every ending that made me right. If this is the price, I’ll pay it in breath— love the ash… love the ash… [Post-Chorus Chop – Extended] love the ash—love the ash—love the ash— (octave stack) [Outro] Cinder-snow drifting, quiet as truth— I’m brighter where I’ve broken through. (ember crackle, soft smile chord)
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