🎵 Ashes of Pompeii - Karl

Dedicated to everyone who left us too soon.

The sky was bruised with fire and fear,
I felt the tremor drawing near.
Your lullaby turned into prayer,
You held them close, the smoke in their hair.

[Pre-Chorus]
And though your lips could never plead,
The world will echo what you need.
I’ll carve your names through time (Through time), through flame (Through flame), through pain (Through pain),
And let your silence speak again.

[Chorus]
I can’t stop the ashes from falling,
But I will write your song.
I will sing of the daughter you carried,
Of the love that kept you strong.
She danced by the streams,
And gathered her dreams,
Till the fire took the sky away.
I’ll sing for the son who was learning to say,
“This is who I am,”
In the ashes of Pompeii.

[Verse 2]
The streets remember every cry,
The gods were deaf, the doves still fly.
I walk among the ghosts of art,
The stone still holds your beating heart.

[Pre-Chorus]
And though the city sleeps in gray,
I’ll wake its voice when I still pray.
I’ll breathe your song to life (To life), tonight (Tonight), through clay (Through clay),
Till every ember fades away.

[Chorus]
I can’t stop the ashes from falling,
But I will write your song.
I will sing of the daughter you carried,
Of the love that kept you strong.
She danced by the streams,
And gathered her dreams,
Till the fire took the sky away.
I’ll sing for the son who was learning to say,
“This is who I am,”
In the ashes of Pompeii.

[Bridge]
And when the mountains burn again,
When memory meets the wind,
Your stone embrace will still defend
The love that never ends.

[Final Chorus / Outro]
I can’t stop the ashes from falling,
But I will write your song.
Let me be the muse of your sorrow,
Let their dreams live on.
For the girl by the stream,
For the boy with his dream,
For the mother who couldn’t look away —
You would have sung for them forever,
Now I’ll sing for you today,
Through the ashes of Pompeii.