ASHES FELL FIRST

By MIKEXTRAY

On REMAIN

Released on March 15, 2026

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[Intro]

It didn’t start with fire—

It started with heat


[Verse I]

The air grew thick, the streets went dry

The sun pressed down, wouldn’t let us hide

Windows shook, the oceans steamed

The sky turned red inside our screens

People screamed, not from the flames

From knowing nothing stayed the same

The heat went wild, the days collapsed

The future burned — and didn’t ask


[Pre-Chorus]

Ashes fell before the rain

Namеs got lost inside the pain

Bodies linеd the avenue

In front of towers we once knew


[Chorus]

This is the world we woke inside

Where everything learned how to die

No angels came, no warnings true

Just heat, then ash, then nothing new


[Verse II]

Some chose fire, some chose stone

Some jumped trying to end it all

Hands still reaching from the ground

When silence swallowed every sound

Buildings watched us lose our shape

Crowds turned still, escape erased

Bodies piled where hope once stood

Proof that endings feel like good


[Pre-Chorus II]

Then the storm came hard and fast

Burned the sky, erased the past

After thunder, after screams

The world went cold — like it had dreamed


[Chorus II]

The cold arrived to seal the wound

After the fire, after the ruin

The climate stilled, the chaos died

But nothing lived — just time passed by


[Bridge]

I walked through what was left behind

Bones and glass and broken signs

Faces frozen mid-despair

No one breathing anywhere


[Verse III]

I don’t know why I stayed alive

Why my heart refused to die

Every step felt borrowed time

Every breath a crime


[Final Chorus]

This is the world that shaped my name

Born from heat, baptized in flame

If there’s a reason I remain

I haven’t found it — just the pain


[Outro]

I walk through ash, through frozen ground

The last sound left — my steps, no crowd

No signal sent, no one to see

Just me…

And what the world used to be