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