Track Insight / Lyrics
Rusty gears grind slow and deep
Beneath the shrine where ashes sleep
Bonfire sputters, casting shade
On the ledger that I made
Ashen toll, the iron bell
Rings for souls who cross the fell
Ashen toll, the bonfire's glow
Counts the coins of long ago
Travelers pause at broken gate
Drop their embers, seal their fate
I tally each with silent grace
No judgment on this hollow place
Ashen toll, the iron bell
Rings for souls who cross the fell
Ashen toll, the bonfire's glow
Counts the coins of long ago
Once I sang in choir lofts high
Now I count the passersby
Breath of hymns in metal throat
Half-remembered, note by note
Ashen toll, the iron bell
Rings for souls who cross the fell
Ashen toll, the bonfire's glow
Counts the coins of long ago
The bonfire gutters, wind picks up
My gears lock tight, my springs corrupt
Yet in the dark, a chord remains
Sung by winds on forgotten plains
Twin spires bleed cold and far
Like dying stars on fractured tar
I watch them flicker, steady, slow
While bass lines pulse in undertow
Ashen toll, the iron bell
Rings for souls who cross the fell
Ashen toll, the bonfire's glow
Counts the coins of long ago
Ashen toll... the bell falls still
Embers fade at Firelink's will
