They came down from the city With their steel and borrowed gods Trading rivers for commandments Turning sunlight into laws They drew borders on our forests Taught us fear we never knew Every prayer that we whispered Was a crime they tried to rule The drums were once our heartbeat Now they echo under guns They erased the ancient thunder Just to crown their chosen sons But the roots beneath the ashes Still remember every sound And the ghosts of every elder Shake the dirt beneath the ground You can burn the names You can break the land But the first sky lives In our blood and hands We are the ashes of the first sky We are the fire they couldn’t chain We are the voices they tried to silence We are the rain before the flame You can bury all our stories But the truth will never die We are the ashes Ashes of the first sky They dressed us in their letters Tried to wash our spirits clean Called their conquest holy guidance Turned our bodies into screens But the jaguar in the shadows Still remembers how to roar And the memory of the mountain Won’t stay silent anymore You can burn the names You can break the land But the first sky lives In our blood and hands We are the ashes of the first sky We are the fire they couldn’t chain We are the voices they tried to silence We are the rain before the flame You can bury all our stories But the truth will never die We are the ashes Ashes of the first sky If the city takes our forests We’ll still rise from what they burn For a people made of thunder Always finds its way to return We are the ashes of the first sky We are the fire they couldn’t chain We are the voices they tried to silence We are the rain before the flame You can bury all our stories But the truth will never die We are the ashes Ashes of the first sky