It finally happened
My greatest fear come to life
Personification, manifestation of the devil I knew
Had to have his way with me eventually
I bought myself a little time, but Charon has come to collect his fare
And ferry me across to embrace my death

See, I went around the world
And the moment I did, the clock began to count down
And I always knew I would have to die twice
Once when I left this sacred town
My world ripped at the seams
Taken from my lifeless grasp with ease
Like candy from a child
I had no way to stop the inevitable advance of time
The clock never winding down for the night, pursuing me until I could no longer fight
I always knew I’d have to die twice
Once when I lost my life
And the other, once I lost the love
The warmth of a girl who brought fire into the world
European Prometheus, and she lit an inferno in my chest
And my smile became wider
And my eyes became brighter
And my legs raced to her home
And my hands reached out to hold her
And my mind raced to get to know her-
And then she was gone.
Quickly as she came, and saw, and divided and conquered
And now we are divided, torn asunder
I count sheep until my eyes surrender me to sleep
Just so I can meet her at the canal we finally kissed
Or the park we first walked
Or the one we first talked
Or the train that ripped her from my life
So I could hold on for a few more seconds long

But this is the way the world turns
Forwards, never back
She moved on and never looked back
I moved away with no way to go back
And we only had a phone, she still has me on the map
But I have to scroll to find her face
Halfway around the world
And I died a second time
When I lost the love
When the time between texts grew ever greater
When I forgot the face which was once engrained in my brain like a crater
When the warmth in my heart flickered, and waned, and the searing hot flame was snuffed out by the cold
A dreadful sheet of ice and hail
I returned to the land of snow, but without the fire in my chest, I was lost to the storm
I try to find her face dancing through the snowflakes
Try to freeze-frame her smile in my head
It’s about the only thing that I have left
But even that is somehow thawing out
As I make memories here to drown her out
But even if she is banished from my mind, she will always have a place in my ice-cold heart
Frozen in time, from the moment I left
Canada’s wintry cold sustains the chill in my breast
The same way she stoked the fire that used to roar in my chest
But I am happy to be a man of the cold, since it took hold
A frosty monument to much warmer days
A man who suffered the pain of having to die twice
I am committed to this prison of timeless ice
Waiting for the day she brings fire to me again
Waiting for the day she brings a beat to my breast
Waiting for the day she brings me back to life