Once I walked in halls of white Draped in silence, dressed in light But the mirrors lied with every smile While daggers bloomed behind denial Every vow was laced with thread Golden chains that left me dead I sang their hymns with dying breath A crown of grace, a masked death They blessed me only to bind me Praised me just to blind me And as the veil began to burn The truth was sharp, and I learned I fell before the Sun Before the light betrayed my name Torn by tongues of gold and ash A phoenix drowned in shame No angels came, no justice done Only silence watched me run As I fell before the Sun What is mercy but a cage Painted soft to mask the rage? I held the sword but not the cause Their holy wrath broke every law They wrote me into fables Chained me to their tables But fire speaks beneath the dust And not all wounds can rust I fell before the Sun Where hope dissolved in flame They crowned my fall a sacred rite But never spoke my name No witness left, no banners spun Only ashes on my tongue As I fell before the Sun Do not call it justice Do not call it fate This was silence by design I fell before the Sun But I remember every scar Let the stars forget my face But not the fire I was Or the voice that was undone When I fell before the Sun