The Lonely Mountain

It's a risk that I should've stopped taking
The wanting, the cleaving, the trust
You'd ask me to stay through the making
But it's you, not me, leaving to rust
Our smoldering ash stays with
Me, it was me whose idea it was
My belief in the city we'd create
You'd ask if I knew how stable it was
Did you know then you wanted a different fate
You left me with smoldering
Ash, on the cobblestone streets
Ash in my eyes
Ash on the houses and stores and the palace and
You swearing you'd clean it up
You holding my hand
You up and running before we could make reparations

Now the Lonely Mountain
The halls where we both used to play
It's now a lonely, desolate, damaged, and death-ridden ruin of happier days
The lonely leftover leader
I've sat so long in this half-empty throne room
The Lonely Mountain and I
Need to learn to cope without you

Oh, we started our incline together
Side by side through the rocky terrain
You'd swear you'd stay with me and wether
The sleet and the snow and the pain
And when it arrived
The dragon took over the palace
We fought valiantly to no avail
We huddled, we both needed healing
And in the midst of my tears, you set sail
Left my sense of self on the dock
Left me cold without feeling the cold
Cold in hot ash
So cold in the heart that I must be a phoenix to
Rise, to rebuild me again
Rising higher than I've been
Rising now that you won't be my friend, 'lone again, so I must make

The Lonely Mountain
The halls where I danced and I lay
Make the homely houses and streets, monuments, bars and taverns more homely today
The lonely leader
Spent so long in the shadow of you and the dragon
The Lonely Mountain and I
Will learn to cope without you

I've made peace with the dragon's presence
I've accepted his hoarding the gold
I've created a new way of life
To aid in this town breaking the mold
There can't be a place for you here if you come back
I won't be asking for you anymore
You'd have to fight to come back if you want it
But I'll no longer eagerly wait by the door

The Lonely Mountain
Is a haven where I live in peace
Though I know the dangers of living right under the cave of a fiery scaled beast
Take the arrow and strike him down
But you won't reclaim what you lost while he sleeps
The Lonely Mountain and I
Won't weep over you