Sweet were the skies of flour-white dawns When the ovens of fate burned The just and the cruel sang their own songs Fractured the fragile world they'd learn Age-old blades of caramel light And shields of candied flame How does a hero stand upright And bind for life the dark one's name? One final word split the air When the final mark caught fire Scattered like crumbs, cursed to beware Each to wander, but climb no higher Earthbread slept in powdered ash Its banners torn and drowned How does a kingdom stand upright With such a silent, broken crown? So rise, crumbled crown Oh rise, crumbled crown From the oven to the open plain Light the shadows on friendship's flame, hey Ooh-ooh, ooh-ah Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh, ah-ooh Soul jam burned with freedom's light Such wonder in her eyes Said: I bear the sin, I'll face the cost For every soul my hands have lost So rise, crumbled crown Oh rise, crumbled crown From the oven to the open plain Light the shadows on friendship's flame So rise, crumbled crown Oh rise, crumbled crown From the oven to the open plain Light the shadows on friendship's flame, hey Ooh, ah-ooh, ah-ooh, ah-ooh (ooh) Ah-ooh, ah-ooh, ooh