The Wild King of Winter

He is the night
He is a cold apparition, bone white, a chiseled face
At every feast he's the solitary beast at the table
Ghost by candlelight, a world erased
Blight upon a landscape
Where toothless crones smite infernal day
And though deceased
He remembers every piece of his nightmare
Swears blood vengeance, there'll be hell to pay

This crown, waives penitent remorse to fight
This crown, strikes out without recourse tonight

He is the wild king of winter
Upon the last lover's throne
Dreams of his one true love
Awake; he's alone
He is the wild king of winter
A future-past cornerstone
She blows as ashes, dust from bone

Entombed in ice
The permafrost bite, a prison
Stone-like, a wizened wraith
But now the darkness surrounds him in defeat
His defences down
Fate's victim of a cursed embrace
Life within the half-light, a vision
Coiled like a wounded snake
And in the great halls of anguish he's alone
Wears his tortured crown
Where once there was a heart to break

This crown, waives penitent remorse to fight
This crown, strikes out without recourse tonight

He is the wild king of winter
Upon the last lover's throne
Dreams of his one true love
Awake; he's alone
He is the wild king of winter
A future-past cornerstone
She blows as ashes, dust from bone

He is the wild king of winter
Upon the last lover's throne
Dreams of his one true love
Awake; he's alone
He is the wild king of winter
A future-past cornerstone
She blows as ashes, dust from bone

He is the wild king of winter
Upon a lost lover's throne
Dreams of his one true love
Awake; he's alone
He is the wild king of winter
Without a heart, soldiers on
Longing to hold her now she's gone