Lonely nights

In a palace beneath the city lights,
Where the chandeliers learned to lie,
The kings played cards with borrowed crowns,
And fed their names to the night.
The tables drank forgotten dreams,
The dice were carved from bones,
Every smile hid a loaded gun,
Every throne was built on loans.
A little sparrow entered there,
With ashes stitched inside her coat,
The wolves had taken both her stars,
And left a debt around her throat.
So she learned to shuffle thunderstorms,
And stack the rain in secret rows,
Turning fate with careful fingers,
Where nobody but the dealer knows.
Pre-Chorus
The house was a garden of poison roses,
Blooming where the moonlight drowned,
And every petal whispered softly:
"Nothing here is ever found."
Chorus
Oh, Violet Flame,
Queen of the burning sea,
The empire wears your shadow
Like roots beneath a tree.
Oh, Wraith of silver winters,
Ghost among the tides,
You haunt the roads between the stars
Where every secret hides.
One built a kingdom out of fire,
One built a kingdom out of smoke,
And somewhere in the space between,
A lonely deck of cards awoke.
Verse II — The Dealer
The sparrow watched the violet queen,
Expecting gold and jeweled wine,
But found her eating pocket snacks,
And drinking water all the time.
The dragons gathered at the felt,
Their rings like chains of rusted gold,
Yet she who owned the darkest throne
Bet only coins and folded cold.
The bullets came like meteor rain,
The wolves revealed their sharpened teeth,
But iron storms passed through her skin
As if the night refused to breathe.
The dealer saw no blood descend,
No crimson rivers, no farewell,
Only a queen adjusting sleeves
As kings collapsed and kingdoms fell.
Chorus
Oh, Violet Flame,
Queen of the burning sea,
The empire wears your shadow
Like roots beneath a tree.
Oh, Wraith of silver winters,
Ghost among the tides,
You haunt the roads between the stars
Where every secret hides.
One built a kingdom out of fire,
One built a kingdom out of smoke,
And somewhere in the space between,
A lonely deck of cards awoke.
Verse III — The Rumor
The city spoke in crooked tongues,
Of hidden gardens filled with light,
Of girls adorned in diamonds bright
Who vanished softly into night.
The sparrow climbed the tower stairs,
With trembling hope behind her eyes,
Only to find the queen annoyed
By stories dressed as truth's disguise.
"Curse the raven," the queen declared,
"Who turned a whisper to a song,
Now every lost and desperate heart
Keeps bringing me where they belong."
Yet somewhere far beyond the walls,
A silver wolf began to grin,
For she had planted every seed
Just to hear the queen complain again.
Bridge — Kyoka
The Wraith wore armor made of names,
A thousand masks, a thousand lies,
She ruled the ports of eastern dawns,
And western harbors under skies.
The world believed a king was coming,
A lord of steel and midnight rain,
Never knowing underneath the crown
A woman bore the weight and pain.
She mapped the continents in gray,
The oceans bent around her hand,
Yet every ro