ASHES Lyrics – Melanie Martinez

Read the complete ASHES Lyrics by Melanie Martinez from the album SLEEPING BEAUTY along with song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Melanie Martinez’s music, you can also explore PEARLY GATES and GOLDEN HOUR, two other songs by Melanie Martinez.

[Verse 1]
I kept your coffee cup upon the shelf
A porcelain ghost I’ve guarded for myself
The dust is settling on the windowsill
In a room that’s stayed impossibly, hauntingly still
I used to think that grief was a jagged blade
A permanent scar in the plans that we made
But the edges are dulling, the metal is thin
I’m finally letting the outside back in

[Chorus]
Oh, ashes to ashes, we return to the ground

But your voice is a frequency I’ve finally found
It’s not in the room, it’s not in the frame
It’s in the way that I whispеr your name
The fire was blinding, it burnеd down the trees
But look at the saplings growing up from the breeze
The smoke is clearing, the blue’s coming through
I’m learning to live in a world without you

[Verse 2]
I walked past the park where we sat in the rain
And for the first time today, it didn’t feel like a chain
I’m not trying to hold onto smoke with my hands
Or build up a castle on shifting white sands
You’re the soil, you’re the roots, you’re the shift in the tide
You’re not just the shadow that lingers inside
I’m planting a garden where you used to stand
With the memory of you held safe in my hand

[Chorus]
Oh, ashes to ashes, we return to the ground
But your voice is a frequency I’ve finally found
It’s not in the room, it’s not in the frame
It’s in the way that I whisper your name
The fire was blinding, it burned down the trees
But look at the saplings growing up from the breeze

The smoke is clearing, the blue’s coming through
I’m learning to live in a world without you

[Bridge]
It wasn’t a choice, it was time moving on
A slow, quiet shift from the dusk to the dawn
I’m not forgetting, I’m just letting go
Of the weight that I carried to keep you in tow
You’d want me to breathe, you’d want me to see
The person you loved is still living in me

[Outro]
The fire is cold
The story is told
I’m folding the page
I’m leaving the stage

[Just ashes]

[Just light]

[I’m going to be alright]