[Intro] They gave us one sky, painted flat and white Said the wall was the edge of every kind of life [Verse 1] I was raised where the floodlights comb the snow Where the sirens mark the hours we are allowed to know Schoolbook planet, one blue room, no outside Every question folded up before it learned to rise They said the old world burned, every coast was gone Said the wall kept the poison and the darkness on But I found a seam beneath the service stairs And heard warm wind moving through forbidden air [Pre-Chorus] If there is nothing past the frost Why do the guards keep counting what we've lost? [Chorus] Beyond the ice wall, something breathes Underneath the story they repeat We were taught that fear was human nature Maybe fear was built to keep us here Beyond the ice wall, turn the key Let the buried horizon answer me If the planet is a cage they call protection Who decided we were born for this deception? [Verse 2] I saw a filmstrip hidden in a medic's case Green fields under weather, children in a different place No poisoned ocean, no endless frozen crown Just a sun that touched the ground without permission from the town The faces in the footage looked like ours But they were laughing in the open for hours No collars, no numbers, no anthem at dawn No voice from the tower telling them what they were born upon [Bridge] They didn't lie because the world was dead They lied because a free mind spreads One crack, one map, one hand on the gate One person asking who wrote our fate [Chorus] Beyond the ice wall, something breathes Underneath the story they repeat We were taught that fear was human nature Maybe fear was built to keep us here Beyond the ice wall, turn the key Let the buried horizon answer me If the planet is a cage they call protection Who decided we were born for this deception? [Outro] The wall is white, but the truth leaves stains I press my ear where the cold steel shakes If humanity is more than what they said Then the first sunrise starts inside my head
