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

Yeah

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

Yeah

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 the last 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