Ashlight Echoes

I close my eyes and the ashes fade away

Leaving behind this cold and broken grey

This world we walk is a battlefield of dust.

A wasteland of iron, ancient grief, and rust

But in my blood, a quiet memory wakes

Of a different sky before the great mistakes

A world that vanished, but refuses to die

Where the wings of dragons painted the sky.

And I'm homesick for a place that is gone

Singing a song from a forgotten dawn

When I fall asleep, the portal opens wide

To the only world where I'm alive inside

Is it a memory or a place I fly?

The home that I lost beneath a different sky.

We had a different light, a different way to grow

With ancient, silent powers shifting with the flow

And wheels of crystal code that started to glow

Nature was breathing, laughing with the crowd

People were whole, and the music was loud

But now it's quiet, just a burnt-out shell

We live in the ruins of a story they won't tell

I walk through the embers of what used to be

Holding the ghost of my true reality.

And I'm homesick for a place that is gone

Singing a song from a forgotten dawn

When I fall asleep, the portal opens wide

To the only world where I'm alive inside

Is it a memory or a place I fly?

The home that I lost beneath a different sky.

I remember the scales of gold and deep blue

I remember a time when the magic was true

They call it a dream, they call me insane

But the longing I feel is my only real pain

It's gone from the map, it's gone from the ground

But inside my mind, it can always be found.

So let the night fall on this wasteland today

I'm chasing the dragons, I'm flying away

Back to the kingdom that used to be mine

On the other side of time...Where I belong.

When I fall asleep.