A Hundred Directions

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]

Left the eastern gate before the sun could climb

A kingdom with no name behind my back

Cold reins against my knuckles

And a map that keeps rewriting every track

The western fires were glowing

The northern bells rang out across the snow

I turned toward the mountains

Then I turned the other way and let it go

[Pre-Chorus]

I could chase the wind

I could follow every sign

But somewhere underneath it all

I know what's mine

[Chorus]

A hundred directions calling out my name

Every single road keeps pulling just the same

I can burn the map and outrun the night

But something deep inside keeps steering toward the light

[Post-Chorus]

Oh-oh, toward the light

Oh-oh, toward the light

[Verse 2]

By dusk the dragons gathered on the cliffs

Three shadows crossed the water like a vow

One watched the eastern border

One was circling

And the last one flew beside me like it knew me somehow

I held my promises in one hand

Questions in the other

A crown I never wanted

And a duty to another

[Pre-Chorus]

Maybe being lost

Doesn't mean you've gone astray

Maybe every broken compass

Has a truer thing to say

[Chorus]

A hundred directions calling out my name

Every single road keeps pulling just the same

I can burn the map and outrun the night

But something deep inside keeps steering toward the light

[Post-Chorus]

Oh-oh, toward the light

Oh-oh, toward the light

[Bridge]

Every road looks like a warning now

Every voice I trusted sounds so far away

The dragons circle but they cannot see inside me

Even fire can grow cold when you keep burning every day

I don't know which way is home

I don't know what I'm fighting for

The crown is heavy

The sky hangs low

And every answer slips away when I get close

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Breakdown]

Let the darkness have its say

Let it take what I can't carry anyway

If I lose myself somewhere between these roads

I'll find what still remains when I let everything go

[Pre-Chorus]

I have followed every warning

I have answered every call

Trying to hold up the heavens

While the ground beneath me falls

[Final Chorus]

A hundred directions, a thousand ways to go

But I can feel a road beneath me now

Let the whole sky open, let the mountains move

There's still something worth protecting

Something worth holding to

A hundred directions, and wherever they may lead

I'll trust the heart beneath the armor

And follow where it beats

A hundred directions, but I'm not lost anymore

I don't need to see the ending

To know what I'm moving toward

[Outro]

I don't need the whole sky clear

I don't need a promise that the road won't disappear

Let the dragons rise

Let the old world bend

I can face the unknown

Without knowing where it ends

A hundred directions

A hundred roads to choose

And for the first time

I choose one for myself