We are ashes on the ground No phoenix will rise This time around (We are depleted, we are unable) To reinvent ourselves, to pretend Like we weren't buried with our youth (And find solace in that truth) An ember of days long lost Slowly dimming in the frost We are dust and distant lights Playing tricks on our own minds (The sun is held within a breath And night becomes you) But as the stars recede And our wounds resume to bleed We're at a loss for words And all the lines are blurred An ember of days long lost Slowly dimming in the frost We fan the fires of (A long-forgotten love) Embers dance and die Above the funeral pyre We are ashes on the ground We were buried with our youth (Find solace in that truth) The embers of days long lost Dead and dying in the frost