Icebound Resolve

Cold wind.

Long night.

Whole damn world had me under those lights.

(under those lights) One more push,

One more time—

You wanted cold?

All right.

Stomped down hard by the weight of the world,

Dragged through the dirt,

watched the whole thing burn,

Pushed to the end till the end pushed back,

Lost a little blood,

never lost my track.

Every closed door put frost on the glass,

Every goodbye put another year in the past,

Every time life said,

“This one's gonna hurt,” I came back colder than I fucking deserved.

Dun—dun—dun. Let the low horns rise.

You wanted me different.

You got it.

COLD AS ICE, That's what the fire made me.

Cold as ice, Nothing much can shake me.

Pushed to the edge,

Left out in the night,

Funny how the world that tried to break me— TURNED ME COLD

AS ICE. (cold as ice)

Used to take every word

straight into my chest,

Now I let it hit once,

let the silence do the rest,

I don't slam doors,

I don't beg, don't chase,

I just watch people show me exactly their place.

I've been underneath with the ceiling coming down,

Been the last damn name anybody wanted around,

Now trouble walks in and I barely look twice—

That's what happens When you live through the ice.

No halo. No crown.

No miracle came

When the walls fell down.

(no miracle)

Just one heartbeat That refused to die— Then another.

Then another.

Now look in my eyes.

COLD AS ICE, That's what the fire made me.

Cold as ice,

Nothing left can change me.

Stomped to the ground,

Pushed out of sight,

The whole damn universe tried to break me— IT TURNED ME COLD

AS ICE.

Cold as—

ICE.