Skunked Visions - Baptized In Flames

AI created. Song not to be used in any form of promotion or used in any other videos other than what is right here. Lyrics: [Intro] “I remember the smell first… Wet stone… burned flesh… And hunger…” [Verse 1] I was twelve When winter came Father died without a name Mother traded wedding rings Just to buy one loaf of anything I watched soldiers take our grain Laughing while we begged in rain One by one the old men fell Stacked like firewood beside the well I learned young The price of breath Every meal was stolen death Every shadow hid a grave Every prayer dug deeper chains [Pre-Chorus] So I sharpened rusted steel On the walls that held our screams Hatred kept my body warm When starvation hollowed me [Chorus] I rose up! With the dirt beneath my skin! With the ghosts of everyone he killed within! Torch the halls! Tear the gold from every wall! Let the tyrant hear the starving when they call! I became Everything the kingdom made A broken man with vengeance in his veins! [Verse 2] We moved slow Through cellar doors Farmers, butchers, thieves, and whores Torchlight dancing in the black No one there was turning back I still hear the first guard choke Still see sparks when his jaw broke Still feel blood run down my hands Hot as fever in the damned Then the palace came in sight Burning red against the night And for once the king looked small Just another man to fall [Pre-Chorus] No choir sang No angels came Only steel and boiling rage Every scar became a blade Every victim fed the flames [Chorus] I rose up! With the dirt beneath my skin! With the ghosts of everyone he killed within! Drag him out! Let the cobblestones run red! Make the bastard kneel beside the starving dead! I became Everything the kingdom made A shattered soul baptized in flames! [Bridge] When the crown rolled down the stairs No triumph filled the air Only silence Only smoke Only widows left alone I thought vengeance would feel holy Like the chains had finally broken But revenge tastes cold When the dead don’t return home [Breakdown] WE WERE HUNGRY! WE WERE CAGED! HE TURNED CHILDREN INTO ROTTING GRAVES! BURN THE THRONE! SALT THE STONE! LET NO KING CLAIM FLESH AND BONE! NO MORE GODS! NO MORE LORDS! ONLY MEN TOO TIRED FOR WAR! [Guitar solo] [Bridge II] Now the fields grow over graves And spring returns without their names The palace walls are black with soot The throne room drowned beneath the roots Children play where bodies burned Too young to know what hatred learned And every night I scrub my hands But still smell ashes in the cracks [Final Chorus] I rose up! And I’d do it all again! For the starved and beaten buried in the end! But the fire Never leaves you when it fades It just sleeps beneath the marrow and the rage No more crowns No more kings Only scars the revolution brings! [Outro] “We killed the tyrant…” “…but none of us survived unchanged…”