Ashen City - Ashenglow Lyrics

I'm ash inside
A shadow holds the knife
Am I the parasite or the host?
I never tried
I sleepwalked through my life
So why can't I just be a ghost?

Show me how
To make my ashen glow
Shine silver now
Like everyone I know

I only see
The pain in the city
I'll never find
The beauty through the smoke
I don't want to live
Behind the scorched facade
But will I die
With these ashen eyes?

Ten years later, the scars show
A fragile inner flame
She flutters and cries like a fawn
I woke up in the phantom glow
But sunlight never came
I'll sputter and die beneath the dawn

Show me how
To make my phantom glow
Shine silver now
Like everyone I know

The city agrees
My pain's not worth my pretty
They'll never find
Beauty in the broken
They don't want to sieve
Blood they think is flawed
So will I die
In their ashen eyes?

To see ash within
To see pain like a sin...

They see my pain like a sin
I see their pain like a sin...