Kinder King

Verse 1

The silver frost begins to crawl

Across the ledge and down the wall

A leaden stillness on my chest

Invites the weary heart to rest

I do not flinch from the hollow eye

Or the wings that sweep the midnight sky

There is a mercy in the cold

That the living tongue has never told.

Chorus

And I’m more afraid of the living breath

Than the velvet sting of a holy death

I’d rather sink in a midnight sea

Than face the ghost of what a man can be

Let the white light take me, let the spirit rise

I’m terrified of the look in human eyes.

Oh yes, I’m terrified of the look in human eyes.

Verse 2

The iron fist, the hollowed vow

The way they build to break it now

A thousand blades behind a smile

That stretches for a jagged mile

But the Angel offers a heavy hand

A passport to the sunless land

Where there is no hunger, and no lie

Just the vast and unmatched open sky.

Chorus

Chorus

And I’m more afraid of the living breath

Than the velvet sting of a holy death

I’d rather sink in a midnight sea

Than face the ghost of what a man can be

Let the white light take me, let the spirit rise

I’m terrified of the look in human eyes.

Oh yes, I’m terrified of the look in human eyes.

Bridge

In the garden of the bone and breath

We’ve made a monster out of death

But the Reaper is a kinder king

Than the poison that my brothers bring

One takes the soul to set it free

The other chains it to the knee.

Outro

So lay me in the drift of down

Far from the noise of the weeping town

Fold me in that ancient grace

Beyond the reach of the human race

I’m not afraid of the end of time...

Just the climb.

Just the climb.

Just the climb.