Verse
Frost is climbing up the cabin door
Boots still standing where you stood before
Ash and snowfall mixing on the ground
Your name still echoes but there's no sound
I packed the lantern with the oil half gone
Counting seconds till the dark comes on
Your compass frozen pointing to the east
I'm burning driftwood just to keep the least
Pre-Chorus
Can I hold this ember one more mile
Can the cold forgive me for a while
Something in the smoke says carry on
Chorus
Rise before the flame dies
Before the last light leaves your eyes
I'll carry what the fire gave
Through the frost, beyond the grave
Rise before the flame dies
Under these unburied skies
I won't let the coldness win
I'll light the dark again
Verse
Northern wind is tearing at the seams
Ice is cracking loud beneath my dreams
Found your gloves beneath the frozen pine
Half a heartbeat, half a broken line
The mountain swallows every word we said
Snow keeps falling white around your bed
But something moves beneath this frozen skin
A single spark that won't give in
Pre-Chorus
Can I hold this ember one more mile
Can the cold forgive me for a while
Something in the smoke says carry on
Chorus
Rise before the flame dies
Before the last light leaves your eyes
I'll carry what the fire gave
Through the frost, beyond the grave
Rise before the flame dies
Under these unburied skies
I won't let the coldness win
I'll light the dark again
Bridge
Maybe goodbye isn't the end of us
Maybe the ash still holds the trust
I'll build a torch from everything you left
Carve your name in every breath
The glacier cracks, the sun breaks through
I rise for me, I rise for you
Chorus
Rise before the flame dies
Before the last light leaves your eyes
I'll carry what the fire gave
Through the frost, beyond the grave
Rise before the flame dies
Under these unburied skies
I won't let the coldness win
I'll light the dark again
