Lilac & Fire
The Witcher · Yennefer
The story in the song
This original song is a dark-pop × cinematic orchestral hybrid inspired by Yennefer of Vengerberg — the sorceress who rose from ruin and rewrote her own fate. It’s both an anthem and a confession, sung in the voice of someone who’s burned, rebuilt, and learned to love on her own terms.
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Lyrics
Lilac on the wind, gooseberries in the dark
Obsidian star beating like a second heart
Cracked‑mirror child learning
where the edges start
Say my name; it portals through the scars
They said I’d break; I bent the world instead
Aretuza’s halls taught the cost of being remade
Tissaia’s winter gaze—tame the sea inside my head
I learned the word for pain in runes of violet red
If hurt is ink, I write my name across the night
If doubt is chains, I turn them sigils set alight
Count me out, then hear me counting thunder right
Lilac & fire — I rise from the pyre
What doesn’t kill me carves my chaos into choir
Underestimated? underline my power
Sodden in my lungs, I turn that smoke to light
Lilac & fire — Vengerberg in my spine
Every scar I carry is a line I choose to write
Yen‑ne‑ne‑fer
Yen‑ne‑ne‑fer
Stronger, stronger
Lilac & fire
Yen‑ne‑ne‑fer
Yen‑ne‑ne‑fer
Stronger, stronger
Lilac & fire
A wish once knotted two
wild hearts against the cold
But love is not a leash; it’s
steel that learns to fold
White‑haired child of storms—my promise to uphold
Courts and circles watched, yet I rewrote the role
If silence bites, I let its teeth become a crown
If they erase me, I return as violet sound
Say I am less—then watch the word profound
Lilac & fire — I rise from the pyre
What doesn’t kill me tunes my fury into choir
Underestimated? every doubt becomes a wire
Sodden on my tongue, I speak the smoke to light
Black banners climbed; the
hill remembered every name
I fed the blaze with pieces I may never get again
Fire answered fury; discipline kept it in
The world said “break”—wildfire answered “bend”
Ash in my throat, yet I keep breathing violets
Magic lost then found—grief teaching quiets
Haunted isn’t beaten; haunted means defiant
From Kaer Morhen snows to halls that would deny it
Lilac & fire — I rise from the pyre
What doesn’t kill me writes
me brighter in the choir
Underestimated? watch a universe conspire
Sodden in my past, but the future burns bright
Lilac & fire — Yennefer in the night
Lilac & fire
Lilac & fire
Every scar I carry is a spell I choose to write
Yen‑ne‑ne‑fer… lilac & fire…
Portal home through the dark