He is the night He is a cold apparition Bone white, a chiseled face At every feast He's the solitary Beast at the table Ghost by candlelight A world erased Blight upon a landscape Where toothless Crones smite infernal day And though deceased He remembers every Piece of his nightmare Swears blood vengeance There'll be hell to pay This crown Waives penitent remorse to fight This crown Strikes out without recourse tonight Yeah He is the wild king of winter Upon the last lover's throne Dreams of his one true love Awake, he's alone He is the wild king of winter A future-past cornerstone She blows as ashes Dust from bone Entombed in ice The permafrost bite, a prison Stone-like, a wizened wraith But now the darkness surrounds Him in defeat His defences down Fate's victim Of a cursed embrace Life Within the half-light, a vision Coiled like a wounded snake And in the great halls of anguish He's alone Wears his tortured crown Where once there was A heart to break This crown Waives penitent remorse to fight This crown Strikes out without recourse tonight Yeah He is the wild king of winter Upon the last lover's throne Dreams of his one true love Awake, he's alone He is the wild king of winter A future-past cornerstone She blows as ashes Dust from bone He is the wild king of winter Upon the last lover's throne Dreams of his one true love Awake, he's alone He is the wild king of winter A future-past cornerstone She blows as ashes Dust from bone He is the wild king of winter Upon the last lover's throne Dreams of his one true love Awake, he's alone He is the wild king of winter Without a heart, soldiers on Longing to hold her Now she's gone