Hearts in the Ash

Intro

Mist hangs low on broken fields

Boots sink deep, slow shadows wheel

Sirens cry from distant spires

Marching forward, hopes expire

Lost among the haunted stones

Letters faded, carved in bone

Rain collects in fractured steel

Carrying promises we never reveal

Verse 1

You trace my name

In the dust on your rifle

Quick

Then gone

Like it never was there

Your helmet shadows

The bruise on your shoulder

Said you slipped

Down the crumbling stair

Chorus

This is our forbidden love

Ash on our sleeves

Blood on our cuffs

Two young ghosts in the same torn flag

Breathing quiet in a world that drags

If they see the way you look at me

They will call it treason

Make us bleed

So we bury every touch we crave

Our forbidden love

In an unmarked grave

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, hearts in the ash

Oh-oh, fade so fast

Verse 2

You check my vest

Twice before the patrol

Fingers shaking

Where the threads are split

Sir shouts orders

Over walls collapsing

You mouth “come back”

And I taste the grit

Pre-Chorus

We survive on fleeting glance

Hide our vows in loaded hands

Even if forever dies

Still your name won’t pass mine

Chorus

This is our forbidden love

Ash on our sleeves

Blood on our cuffs

Two young ghosts in the same torn flag

Breathing quiet in a world that drags

If they see the way you look at me

They will call it treason

Make us bleed

So we bury every touch we crave

Our forbidden love

In an unmarked grave

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, hearts in the ash

Oh-oh, fade so fast

Outro

Thunder rides down shattered roads

Only footprints, secrets owed

But in dreams you find my face

Every silence, every trace

Past the ruins and the gunfire’s stain

Hold your breath through shadow and rain

If you listen, through the cold and gray

My voice is the dawn that will not decay

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh, hearts keep their flame

Oh-oh, through loss and pain

Oh-oh, beyond the grave

Oh-oh, forbidden love remains