[Intro]
[Low Male Vocal]
I have watched the crown decay
I have smiled and learned to wait
Kings are born, but men like me
Rewrite the hand of fate

[Verse]
They call me faithful servant
They call me scholar, friend
They never see the serpent
That measures every end
I bowed beside her father
I blessed her mother’s grave
And every tear I offered
Was one more chain I gave

[Pre-Chorus]
The weak call ruin tragedy
The wise call ruin chance
A kingdom on its knees must learn
A colder kind of dance

[Chorus]
This is Vael’s Promise
I will save the throne from light
Vael’s Promise
I will crown the longest night
Let the queen believe in mercy
Let the people beg for dawn
When the ashes choose their master
I will be the hand they’re on

[Verse]
The Oracle speaks in riddles
The generals sharpen steel
The starving curse the palace
But hunger makes them kneel
I know the hidden tunnels
I know the broken guards
I know which holy relics
Are worth their weight in scars

[Pre-Chorus]
A prophecy is nothing
Until a clever man
Cuts away the kinder words
And leaves a useful plan

[Chorus]
This is Vael’s Promise
I will save the throne from light
Vael’s Promise
I will crown the longest night
Let the queen believe in mercy
Let the people beg for dawn
When the ashes choose their master
I will be the hand they’re on

[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
Steel over strings
Cold fire climbs
A traitor conducts
The end of the line

[Bridge]
Aurelia, poor Aurelia
So noble in her grief
You wear a crown of funeral gold
And call the wound belief
But I have read the oldest law
The price beneath the seal
A queen may rule a kingdom
But fear makes kingdoms kneel

[Breakdown]
[Heavy]
Kneel for order
Kneel for peace
Kneel while all
Your freedoms cease

[Build-up]
I do not betray
I simply correct
What blood made weak
And fools protect

[Final Chorus]
This is Vael’s Promise
I will save the throne from light
Vael’s Promise
I will crown the longest night
Let the queen believe in mercy
Let the people beg for dawn
When the ashes choose their master
I will be the hand they’re on

[Outro]
[Dark Choir]
I have watched the crown decay
I have smiled and learned to wait
When the last queen turns to ash
I will call it fate