[Verse 1] I shared my bread with the winds of the midnight so cold, I kept my secrets like fruit that is strictly forbidden. Your world was a chamber, so fragile, and ghostly, and old, Where every soul was a shadow, all measured and hidden. I gathered the ashes of dawn in my pockets so torn, While you in your cells prayed for silence to keep you away. I sailed through the oceans, through ice where the winter is born, And dragged up my guilt like a ghost from the dark of the waves. [Chorus] To be salt of the earth is a gift that is not for us all, And not every head earns the silver of sacred white years. I’ve tasted the wine of my fate, I have answered the call — I’m above the routine, and above all the crowds and the fears. In my pockets — the dawn and the dust, in your hearts — just a lock, In yours — but a hollow and humble and silent retreat. I’m the one who has mastered the terror, I’m firm as a rock, Remaining forever beyond where the earth and sky meet. [Verse 2] You measure your lives with the scale of a monk in his cell, You shiver at candles in dreams that are hollow and cold. But I was the hangover, bitter and burning like hell, In a land where the bright and the proud are not allowed to be bold. My grey hair is starlight, a frost that was dropped from the sky, The touch of the nameless, the mark of the vast and the great. I stepped on a shore that was burnt and was tearless and dry, To breathe in the ashes of dawn and to master my fate. [Chorus] To be salt of the earth is a gift that is not for us all, And not every head earns the silver of sacred white years. I’ve tasted the wine of my fate, I have answered the call — I’m above the routine, and above all the crowds and the fears. In my pockets — the dawn and the dust, in your hearts — just a lock, In yours — but a hollow and humble and silent retreat. I’m the one who has mastered the terror, I’m firm as a rock, Remaining forever beyond where the earth and sky meet. [Outro] At my feet — just the dawn and the dust... In yours — but a cell and the hush. I chose the sky. I was blinded by sight. But this truth is my own — it’s the only one right.
