“Silent Hill” Heart of Ashes, Skin Aflame (Alessa Gillespie)

[Intro - Spoken Word]
“Ashes don’t forget…
The skin remembers…
And the town…
It breathes me.”

[Verse 1]
My breath is smoke — it curls and dies
The walls are close, they hum with pain
I feel the bandages like chains
They hold the fire under skin

No light, no voice — just static air
Each step is echo, each thought — flame
I scream inside — but sound is ash
My name is gone. I bear the name

[Chorus 1]
Why am I breathing, bound in flame?
Why is the silence calling me?
I wear my wounds, I wear the blame
A ghost in flesh — not meant to be

[Verse 2]
The streets unfold like burned-out veins
A playground swallowed by the mist
The clock won’t chime, the bells resist
The sky is rust, the sun is pain

I walk — and doors begin to bleed
The sirens cry beneath the skin
I see the town inside my dream…
And feel its fire start to grin

[Chorus 2]
I am the smoke that haunts the hill
I am the whisper in the steel
The town awakens when I will —
Its heart, its wound, its flame — I feel

[Instrumental Bridge – Gothic Rock Solo]

[Verse 3]
You fed me fire, then turned away
Now every face becomes my fuel
Your mercy burns like acid rain —
I see through pity. I see through you

This isn’t vengeance. This is law
The kind that gods forgot to write
Each fear you gave — I keep them all
And now I bloom in endless night

[Chorus 3]
No more your daughter, no more child —
I am the cage you left to break
No prayers, no crosses, none defiled —
My hate is pure. My flame won’t fade

[Verse 4]
I speak in fog. My words are flame
The town is mine — it speaks through me
The holy lies, the rotting names —
All crumble in my liturgy

You built this place to hide your sin
You fed it blood, and called it grace
But I am fire beneath the skin —
The god you birthed, you can’t erase

[Chorus 4]
I am not human, I am flame —
I am the silence wrapped in stone
I am the town, I am the name —
Your sins, your screams — they are my own

[Outro — Spoken Word]
"You thought I died
You thought I burned
But I became…
Everything you feared
And now
The fire walks with you."