Nexus Keeper 

[Verse 1]
At the edge of the harvest field
A black bell marks the hour
Your brother left with iron hands
And returned beneath the tower
 
[Pre-Chorus]
The river keeps its winter face
The chapel door is chained
You carry one unbroken vow
Through every name erased
 
[Chorus]
Dawn will not find us clean
Blood on the snow, ash in the wheat
Hold fast, hold fast, the night has teeth
If the dark takes one of us
The other becomes the flame beneath
 
[Verse 2]
A crown of thorns above the gate
A wolf track by the well
The old ones count the fallen stones
And know the road to hell
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Your hands are warm, your blade is cold
The watchfires thin and fade
But every debt the dead have made
Is waiting to be paid
 
[Chorus]
Dawn will not find us clean
Blood on the snow, ash in the wheat
Hold fast, hold fast, the night has teeth
If the dark takes one of us
The other becomes the flame beneath
 
[Bridge]
No saint will cross the frozen pass
No army hears the horn
So choose the wound that makes you stand
Choose what you guard till morn
 
[Final Chorus]
Dawn will not find us clean
Blood on the snow, ash in the wheat
Hold fast, hold fast, the night has teeth
If the dark takes one of us
The other becomes the flame beneath
 
[Outro]
When the first pale silence breaks
Speak my name into the red
Not for mercy, not for peace
For the living and the dead

[Verse 1]
Cold ash on my hands
No name, no skin, no past
I wake in shattered armor
And the omen cuts fast
The world is a wound
With towers full of teeth
I step through the ruin
Where the dead still breathe
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that stone prayer
Under my feet
Every hall wants blood
Every door wants heat
If I break, I learn
If I learn, I burn
 
[Chorus]
Take the hollow crown
Take the hollow crown
I was made for this ground
I was made for this ground
I rise, I fall, I rise
In the shell, I don’t die
Take the hollow crown
Take the hollow crown
 
[Verse 2]
Masks in the dark
With eyes like cracked glass
Old kings in the marrow
Still clinging to the past
I read their hunger
In the rust and the bone
Every oath here rots
But I walk alone
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear that stone prayer
Under my feet
Every hall wants blood
Every door wants heat
If I break, I learn
If I learn, I burn
 
[Chorus]
Take the hollow crown
Take the hollow crown
I was made for this ground
I was made for this ground
I rise, I fall, I rise
In the shell, I don’t die
Take the hollow crown
Take the hollow crown
 
[Bridge]
When the veil tears back
And the last light bends
I’ll face the black tide
With my borrowed limbs
No mercy in the ruins
No peace in the flame
Just one more chamber
And one more name
 
[Final Chorus]
Take the hollow crown
Take the hollow crown
I was made for this ground
I was made for this ground
I rise, I fall, I rise
In the shell, I don’t die
Take the hollow crown
Take the hollow crown

[Verse]

Snow whispers sharp like a broken blade

The sun is a rumor

Its warmth betrayed

Breath turns to ghosts

Floating thin in the air

A shadow of hunger

[Verse]

Out in the land where the shadows creep

A ghostly whisper haunts your sleep

The desert calls with a cursed breath

Every step closer to untold death

[Chorus]

Blood runs thick beneath the sky

Westward winds they scream and cry