Where The Ashes Bloom

Lyrics

The orchard fell
Without a sound
Black leaves slept
Across the ground

I walked barefoot
Through the dust
Past broken crowns
And iron rust

No bells above
No hands below
Only the soil
Beginning to know

Where the ashes bloom
I become someone new
Not clean
Not saved
But breaking through

Where the ashes bloom
The dark learns to move
And what was buried
Pushes through

Old roots twist
Around my feet
Pulling the storm
Out of me

A bitter fruit
Splits on my tongue
Tastes like endings
Still unsung

I gave the ground
My final name
It gave me back
A different shape

Where the ashes bloom
I become someone new
Not clean
Not saved
But breaking through

Where the ashes bloom
The dark learns to move
And what was buried
Pushes through

I will not return
To the skin I wore
I will not kneel
At the vanished door

Let the old world sleep
Underneath my bones
I have learned to grow
From what is gone

Where the ashes bloom
I become someone new
Not clean
Not saved
But breaking through

Where the ashes bloom
The dark learns to move
And what was buried
Pushes through

Where the ashes bloom
I rise unknown
A living root
In a field of stone

The orchard fell
I did not fall
Something grew
After all