The High Tower

Verse 1

They locked you high you high in the tower room

Stone on the windows, frost in the bloom

I came with mud on my travel coat

A cracked old map and a lantern’s hope

The gate was cursed with a serpent seal

The iron rang like a sharpened wheel

Pre-Chorus

But I heard your name in the raven’s cry

Saw gold in the ash when the crows flew by

Old songs said the brave don’t come back

I bit that lie and I took my axe

Chorus

I’ll cut through the dark for you

I’ll cut through the dark for you

Princess in the ash, I’m coming through

I’ll cut through the dark for you

(For you)

(For you)

Verse 2

In the black wood, wolves wore human eyes

And the briar woke when I touched the vines

A mirror lake held a drowned king’s grin

He asked for my fear to let me in

I gave him none, just a broken vow

“Stand aside,” I said to the water now

Pre-Chorus

Then the mountain shook with the overlord’s horn

His banners hung from the bones of war

But I kept walking through the cold

With your name stitched tight in my coat

Chorus

I’ll cut through the dark for you

I’ll cut through the dark for you

Princess in the ash, I’m coming through

I’ll cut through the dark for you

(For you)

(For you)

Bridge

At the throne, he laughed from a chair of bone

Crowns on his fingers, teeth in his throne

You stood in chains, but your eyes were fire

So I broke the lock and fed the pyre

You took my hand, then you took the night

And the whole old castle split with light

Final Chorus

We cut through the dark for you

We cut through the dark for you

Princess in the ash, we’re breaking through

We cut through the dark for you

We cut through the dark for you

(For you)

(For you)