Winter’s Crown

[Verse 1] Iron on my tongue Oaths taste sharp as blood Crow feathers in my hair Boot prints in the mud Cards laid on stone tables Names whispered like a threat Every flag above the ramparts Waves a different debt [Chorus] All hail the winter’s crown Cold hands pull the warm hearts down We were born to break To bow To burn But the wheel still turns Still turns Sing for the fallen vows Storms write the stories now We were raised on steel and stolen thrones In a land that never feels like home [Verse 2] Daughter with a hunter’s stare Laughs like breaking glass Son who learned the silent step By stalking in the grass Lions carved in gilded doors Wolves drawn in the snow Fire in the wildwood Where the old songs go [Chorus] All hail the winter’s crown Cold hands pull the warm hearts down We were born to break To bow To burn But the wheel still turns Still turns Sing for the fallen vows Storms write the stories now We were raised on steel and stolen thrones In a land that never feels like home [Bridge] Who will stand When the last torch dies? (oh) Who holds faith When the dead rise? Taste of ash On a king’s last breath Love is a promise You whisper to death [Chorus] All hail the winter’s crown Cold hands pull the warm hearts down We were born to break To bow To burn Still the wheel returns Returns Sing for the broken vows Let the ravens carry us out We were raised on steel and shattered thrones In a land that never feels like home