Back to the Fire

The Winter is killer, causing my blood to run cold
Just like the icicles, I can feel crystallize in my soul
I find the numbness a comfort because it's all that I know
If one description could fit me it'd be abominable

When I lost my fire, the fever to follow was awfully fierce
Freezing my arctic heart in an armored locker
Not even arson could pierce
I got a disease operating like a machine
But forgot for what was I geared?
I became a robot when the cold dropped Sub-Zero
Arteries shot full of serum as I'm
Tossed into the ring not one applaud or a cheer
Probably 'cause no audience wanted to watch me faced off with a mirror
I had to weaponize Edward Hyde whenever my Doctor
Jekyll would not volunteer
Putting me on both sides of the conflict
Either way, all of us profit tears

Not every hero keeps so clean cut
No cap I'm better off with a beard
Stark is the contrast in between us
Here comes a trigger warning cover your ears
Lookin' like a storm on the forecast
Not sure that's really what I wanted to hear
With a Civil War on my doorstep
It's a little late for any Paul to Revere, hollerin'

Winter isn't coming, Winter is already here
The weather from which I've been running is nigh
The sky no longer so clear
My past caught up with me
Knocked me off of the wagon onto my rear
How can I trust the function of my compass
When it was corrupted with fear?

What have I lost?
Nothing but years, what did it cost?
All that was dear
Which I thought would've thawed my conscience
It did not, it just disappeared
Like a wolf running from his hunger
When another more cunning hunter is near
'Cause a bark and a bite will not win a fight
If you're not holdin' onto a spear

Which one am I becomin'?
I caught the cold, because

The Winter's been so long
I got no spark left in my lighter
Now I feel nothing
But I need something to guide me back to the fire
'Cause if a man can't change his stars
He can damn sure change his stripes
When nightfall paints the world all black and white
Bring the fire back to life (to life, to life, to life)

Sleeper agent, reawaken
When his peaceful dream is shaken
Free of reason, fleeting patience
Seething anger, feeding hatred
Seekin' to find the wrong in the right
Sweepin' the leg is part of the fight
I've become a hostage of the monster inside me
I'm just along for the ride

Thought I was dead?
Forgotten behind?
Fallen left in the gutter to die?
Dropped my guard and I got disarmed
Southpaw now but I'll knock out your lights
Take off my face put on a disguise
I don't wear capes I'm wanted for crimes
You do this all day? I run it all night
Gone is the Winter, but not in my mind

Split in half, which half is talking?
I could be set off any second, watch it
Shatter your defenses
Shed that shield you brought
Or get sent back home on it
Matters not if I happen to want it
I'm on this path and I have to walk it
Navigating while divided pilots
Fight to drive my mental cockpit

It's an unholy road ahead
But I'm already damned, I've broken bread
With both of the devils on my shoulders
Growing heavy with the sins I won't confess
So sever regret it's said and done
But remember to dread what's yet to come
Forever the steps I take
Will set the pace that my amends are meant to run

Better protect your wings
I was left with none when I flew too high
And they met the sun
Fell from Cloud Nine into Hell's Ninth Circle
A permanent resident I've become
Another one of them fallen angels
All of our halos broken
We share despair
Spare your prayers
God ain't savin' no one

The soulless soldier has only
Been shown the coldest shoulders
I'll go unthanked for my service
I'm takin' no more orders
Had enough of playin' dead
Now rover's sick of rollin' over
Still some tricks to be taught
Even if the god is older

The Winter's been so long
I got no spark left in my lighter
Now I feel nothing
But I need something to guide me back to the fire
'Cause if a man can't change his stars
He can damn sure change his stripes
When nightfall paints the world all black and white
Bring the fire back to life

Two wolves are battling inside us all
So who will answer when the wild calls?
The one you feed won't need a fire while
The one denied is hungrier becoming a survivor
Crying fuck it all wanna see my dirty laundry aired out?
Nothing left to hide might as well let my hair down
The match is set yet there's nothing to strike
I guess the past is all I got left to light (got left to light)

The Winter's been so long
I got no spark left in my lighter
Now I feel nothing
But I need something to guide me back to the fire
'Cause if a man can't change his stars
He can damn sure change his stripes
When nightfall paints the world all black and white
Bring the fire back to life (to life, to life)

When nightfall paints the world all black and white
Man can't change his stars
And I know he can change his stripes
Might change his stripes