[Intro]
[Soft Choir]
In the ruins of morning
Where the red smoke thins
A queen walks barefoot
Through the end of kings

[Verse]
I carried it from the throne room
Still burning in my palms
The crown that named my bloodline
The crown that wrote our psalms
The people stood in silence
The city held its breath
And Vael lay in shadow
Still bargaining with death

[Pre-Chorus]
The Oracle of Cinders
Rose in the dawn-lit air
“Choose the throne and rule the ashes
Choose the lost and leave it there”

[Chorus]
This is the last crown of ashes
No more blood beneath the gold
This is the last crown of ashes
No more children bought and sold
Let the old world fall behind us
Let the broken dawn begin
I lay down the last crown of ashes
So the living may rise again

[Verse]
Kaelen stood beside me
But did not touch my hand
For love must not command me
When I must free the land
I thought of every ruler
Who mistook the throne for light
I thought of every mother
Who had prayed through endless night

[Pre-Chorus]
Then I heard the People’s Choir
Not begging, not afraid
They sang not for a ruler
But for the choice I made

[Chorus]
This is the last crown of ashes
No more blood beneath the gold
This is the last crown of ashes
No more children bought and sold
Let the old world fall behind us
Let the broken dawn begin
I lay down the last crown of ashes
So the living may rise again

[Instrumental Break]
[Orchestral Climax]
Bells in the distance
Strings like the sea
Guitars like thunder
Breaking history

[Bridge]
Aurelia: I release the dead from duty
I release the living too
I release the throne from hunger
I release myself from you
Kaelen: Then no empire shall claim you
Choir: Then no crown shall own our name
Oracle: When the queen becomes the ember
Ash will never mean the same

[Breakdown]
[Heavy Choir]
Break the crown
End the rite
Feed no darkness
Name no night

[Build-up]
I placed the crown
Where the black stones glowed
The metal cracked
The old fire slowed
The city wept
The heavens cleared
And for the first time
No one feared

[Final Chorus]
This is the last crown of ashes
No more blood beneath the gold
This is the last crown of ashes
No more children bought and sold
Let the old world fall behind us
Let the broken dawn begin
I lay down the last crown of ashes
So the living may rise again

[Outro]
[Long Outro]
In the ruins of morning
Where the red smoke thinned
No queen sat above them
No old law pinned
Aurelia walked forward
With ash in her hair
Not crowned, not broken
But finally there

[Soft Choir]
This is the last crown of ashes
The last royal flame
The throne remembers silence
But no longer claims a name