[Intro]
[People's Choir]
No crown can save us
No throne can hear
No gold can feed us
No sword kills fear

[Verse]
The square was full of wounded
The fountain ran with gray
The statues of my fathers
Looked blind in light of day
I climbed the broken stairway
To speak above the crowd
But every royal sentence
Fell empty, cold and loud

[Pre-Chorus]
I said, “I am your queen”
They answered, “Then where were you
When hunger learned our children’s names
And winter took them too?”

[Chorus]
No crown can save us
No crown can save us now
The jewels are only fire
Upon a dying brow
No crown can save us
No throne can make us whole
If power asks for sacrifice
It eats the human soul

[Verse]
Kaelen stood beside the wounded
With blood upon his sleeve
He ordered bread from army stores
And begged his men to grieve
Vael cried from the palace balcony
“See how the queen has failed”
But every lie he sharpened
Was a coffin newly nailed

[Pre-Chorus]
The people did not cheer me
They did not curse his name
They only held their dead ones
And stared into the flame

[Chorus]
No crown can save us
No crown can save us now
The jewels are only fire
Upon a dying brow
No crown can save us
No throne can make us whole
If power asks for sacrifice
It eats the human soul

[Instrumental Break]
[Orchestral Break]
Brass like judgment
Drums like stone
Choirs rising
Not alone

[Bridge]
Aurelia: I thought the crown was duty
Choir: Duty without bread is dust
Kaelen: I thought the war brought justice
Choir: Justice without mercy rusts
Aurelia: I thought the throne could guard you
Choir: Thrones remember only thrones
All: We are more than flags and borders
We are flesh and blood and bones

[Breakdown]
[Heavy]
Break the seal
Open the store
Feed the living
Crown no more

[Build-up]
The city shakes
The old bells cry
A queen learns how
A crown can die

[Final Chorus]
No crown can save us
No crown can save us now
The jewels are only fire
Upon a dying brow
No crown can save us
No throne can make us whole
If power asks for sacrifice
It eats the human soul

[Outro]
[Soft Choir]
No crown can save us
No throne can hear
But hands can lift us
When hearts draw near