[Intro] Ash in my lungs Teeth full of dust I carved your name In the rust of my own bones [Verse 1] Dragged from the cradle by a hand made of mirror Every flaw Every fracture Forced closer to the glass You crowned me with thorns that you grew from my failures Said "kneel to the future" while you tightened the past You stitched constellations on the backs of your servants Fed us your sermons from a chalice of tar You promised ascendence at the edge of a blade Just to count every scar Every scar [Chorus] We were born in fire Shackled to the sun Taught to praise the pyre While our bodies come undone If this is your empire Then watch what you've begun I will tear the sky wide open I refuse to die as one [Verse 2] You measured devotion in the weight of our silence Hung halos of iron from the beams of our doubt Built temples of marble on our buried defiance Then buried the exit while you mapped every route You wrote revelation in the cracks of our fingers Branded our eyelids with your borrowed crown But in the marrow where your memory lingers Is the whisper that will drag your heaven down [Chorus] We were born in fire Shackled to the sun Taught to praise the pyre While our bodies come undone If this is your empire Then watch what you've begun I will tear the sky wide open I refuse to die as one [Bridge] [low vocal register] I am the child You pressed into the furnace The ember that learned To breathe through the burn [growled] I wear your prophecies Like armor made of ash I am the echo Of everything you smashed [crescendo] When your stained glass crashes On this congregation of bone You'll hear my name in the crack Of every breaking throne [guitar solo] [Chorus] We were born in fire Shackled to the sun Taught to praise the pyre While our bodies come undone If this is your empire Then watch what you've begun I will tear the sky wide open I refuse to die as one
