Ashes in the Current (version 2)

Verse

Frostbite river running through the wire

Every light I built burns down like fire

Concrete halls where shadows used to roam

Now they dance in static, hollow and home

I carved my name into the circuit board

Watched it melt away when the current bored

Every heartbeat that this city stole

I turned them into a signal that nobody holds

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the ash start rising from below?

Something old is waking in the wires we throw

Let the current take what I already lost

I'm still alive, I just don't look like the cost

Chorus

Ashes in the current, ashes in the flame

I'm a ghost that burns brighter than my name

Every light that died becomes a star above

Ashes in the current, and this is where I'll find love

Verse 2

Walls of glass that used to keep me trapped inside

Now they shatter like it never mattered who was right

I traded fear for fire every single night

Turned the city's darkness into a beacon light

I built an empire from every heartbeat stolen

Watched it crumble slow when the current got too cold

But something ancient answered in the static hum

A power older than this city, older than them all

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the ash start rising from below?

Something old is waking in the wires we throw

Let the current take what I already lost

I'm still alive, I just don't look like the cost

Chorus

Ashes in the current, ashes in the flame

I'm a ghost that burns brighter than my name

Every light that died becomes a star above

Ashes in the current, and this is where I'll find love

Bridge

Maybe ash is just another word for dawn

Maybe every heartbeat turned to smoke can rise again on its own

I let it go, not out of fear but fire

Now the whole city's burning with my name as the wire

Chorus

Ashes in the current, ashes in the flame

I'm a ghost that burns brighter than my name

Every light that died becomes a star above

Ashes in the current, and this is where I'll find love