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Ashen and grave

My grief turns to rage

It tears at my limbs

And smothers my mind

Commands my frantic heart

To sing in blasphemy

All that is left for me

You never understood me

You never understood why

But the sky never derided you

And you weren’t raised by the flames

And have you ever dared to look down?

Heard your name in the mouth of the chasm?

Thought that below there could be hope

For endlessly I have searched these grounds

And all I’ve ever found was that something’s missing

So, I’ve trained my eyes to see

Through the veil of rising smoke

I’ve learned the language of the damned

Who whisper in the night

Oh, can’t you hear? They’re calling me

I feel there’s something I can yet give to this world

As an ancient power awakens inside of me

A scorching hunger, that sets my soul ablaze

A languish for pain and death

In the shadow of the flames

I was crowned their master

You say you don’t understand

But you weren’t raised falling down

Held up only by the taste of power

Call me devil then

Harbinger of despair

But I never built this world of suffering

I played but by the rules

to make it burn brighter