No Crowns Left

I traced the lines across the years
Different faces, same old fears
New flags rise, old blood dries
Same hunger wearing new disguises
I watched them promise, watched them burn
Watched them rise, refuse to learn
Every time we say never again
We sharpen different hands

It's not the name, it's not the throne
It's not the monster carved in stone
It's the part we don't confront–
The need to feel like we're someone

No crowns left, no gods to blame
No single soul to take the shame
If power grows where silence stays
Then we're not innocent in this place
I've seen the cycle, I've seen the cost
Every empire thinks it's lost
But history doesn't repeat itself–
We do

We dress it up in progress talk
Call it order, call it law
Say: This time it's different now
As we bow without a sound
We love the lie when it feels clean
We hate the truth when it intervenes
It's easier to pick a face
Than face the pattern we embrace

It's not the war, it's not the gun
It's who we turn into when it's done
If you want someone to rule your fear
Someone always
Appears

No crowns left, no gods to blame
No single soul to take the shame
If power grows where silence stays
Then we're not innocent in this place
I've seen the cycle, I've seen the cost
Every empire thinks it's lost
But history doesn't repeat itself–
We do

We don't need tyrants to be ruled
We just need comfort over truth

No crowns left, no flags to wave
No heroes coming to be saved
If this machine is fed by us
Then stopping it
Is on us
I won't pretend I'm standing clean
I've felt the pull, I've seen the dream
If this ends anywhere at all–
It ends
With me

No kings
No gods
No silence