Ash Currency

Verse 1

Count the nights I spent to buy this name in smoke

Every mile I ran, a piece of me I broke

Traded skin for shadow, traded sleep for flame

Ash is what they charge you when you ask for fame

Chorus

This is ash currency, burning in my hand

Spent it all to stand where the legends stand

Every step I climbed, I left something behind

Ash currency — that's the price of the climb

Verse 2

Used to have a face they'd recognize on sight

Now I'm just a rumor moving through the night

Momma's voice, old friends, the boy I used to be

Folded into embers, paid in full for this to breathe

Bridge

Nobody warns you power tastes like rust

Nobody tells you myth is only ash and dust

Chorus

This is ash currency, burning in my hand

Spent it all to stand where the legends stand

Every step I climbed, I left something behind

Ash currency — that's the price of the climb