Ash for Ash

Verse 1

You sold the candle for the match

Trade the harvest for the flame

Wrap your scripture round a fist

Swear your god still knows your name

You dug the trench inside my chest

Measured out the hurt in pints

Now you stand above the wreck

Grinding righteousness to grist

Pre-Chorus

And the fields are burning out

While you count what you can keep

While the ash comes sifting down

While your empire sinks to sleep

Chorus

Crush the bone to dust

Crush the bone to dust

You fed the mouth that bites the hand

Crush the bone to dust

Let the wreckage take the throne

Let the wreckage take the throne

Verse 2

You poured the poison in the well

Then you begged the well for drink

Every wall you swore would hold

Was mortgaged to the flood

You wore the crown of borrowed steel

Laid your brothers in the mud

Godless hand inside the glove

Wringing mercy from the mud

Pre-Chorus

And the fields are burning out

While you count what you can keep

While the ash comes sifting down

While your empire sinks to sleep

Chorus

Crush the bone to dust

Crush the bone to dust

You fed the mouth that bites the hand

Crush the bone to dust

Let the wreckage take the throne

Let the wreckage take the throne

Bridge

Iron fist on your own

Your own

Your own

Flesh you fed the furnace

Flesh you fed the furnace

Now you know the hunger

Now you know the hunger

Breakdown

Bow down

Bow down

Rise up

Rise up

Spill it

Spill it

Spill it all

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Crush the bone to dust

Crush the bone to dust

You fed the mouth that bites the hand

Crush the bone to dust

Let the wreckage take the throne

Let the wreckage take the throne

Outro

Ash for ash

Ash for ash

Rot you sowed

Rot you reap

Ash for ash

Ash for ash