Ash On Marble

Verse 1

Smoke-stained alleys, old ruins sigh

Twisted tales tangle with my tongue

Moon knifes the towers—sharp, silent, sly

Ash on skin, sudden, stinging, young

A shadow falls

Another throne crumbles

Verse 2

Gold-laced gates splintered by time’s hands

False kings, fragile, wander long lost lands

I see hunger in the hollows, desperate and deep

I see secrets snaked beneath feet too tired to run

Cracked marble, dust—forgotten grandeur

Bleak belief, broken oaths, silent thunder

Chorus

Tartaria falls, stone by shattered stone

Tartaria falls, secrets swallowed whole

Down the minaret, through meandering streets

Down the minaret, my memory repeats

Post-Chorus

Falling, falling, all falling

Lost in the ruins lying

Verse 3

Candles flicker, figures dance—faces veiled

Perfume of danger, malice dragon-tailed

Maybe it’s the velvet, maybe it’s the flame

Maybe it’s the poison, maybe it’s the blame

Brass bells toll, blue smoke coils

Ancient tongue on fresh-cut spoils

I watch as towers tumble—two words: too late

Chorus

Tartaria falls, stone by shattered stone

Tartaria falls, secrets swallowed whole

Down the minaret, through meandering streets

Down the minaret, my memory repeats

Bridge

Under arches shattered

Under stars scattered

I wander, I wonder, I wander

Sand in my mouth, blood in my teeth

All I have left is a name—a faded belief

Chorus

Tartaria falls, stone by shattered stone

Tartaria falls, secrets swallowed whole

Down the minaret, through meandering streets

Down the minaret, my memory repeats

Post-Chorus

Falling, falling, all falling

Lost in the ruins lying

Falling, falling, Tartaria’s dying

Outro

I whisper names, forgotten, forlorn

I let it go, I let it go

The city sleeps, the city’s gone