Fire on Ice

[Verse 1]
Footprints burn
On the frozen ground
Iron breath
In a silent town
Cracked steel sky
In a world gone pale
I taste the storm
Under brittle mail
[Pre-Chorus]
Every heartbeat
Like a hammer in the frost
Every promise
Is a kingdom nearly lost
I feel the fracture
Where the fear once bit my spine
I raise my banner
Let the blizzard see the sign
[Chorus]
Fire on ice
When the cold claws in
I rise
I am the spark
In the long
Long night
Scars like runes
On this heart I weaponized
I turn the break
Into blazing light
Fire on ice
I burn
I burn
I will not die
[Verse 2]
Black wind laughs
At a lone-held line
Shattered flags
On a rusted shrine
Bare hands bleed
On a broken shield
But I won’t bow
I will never yield
[Pre-Chorus]
Every shadow
Is a trial I’ve yet to face
Every downfall
Just a crack in outer plates
Deep in the center
There’s a sun they couldn’t see
I hear it calling
Through the splintered ice in me
[Chorus]
Fire on ice
When the cold claws in
I rise
I am the spark
In the long
Long night
Scars like runes
On this heart I weaponized
I turn the break
Into blazing light
Fire on ice
I burn
I burn
I will not die
[Bridge]
[Half-time
Soaring twin-guitar lead over choirs]
I was buried in the permafrost of doubt (oh)
Frozen in a name they whispered out
Then a crack
Then a roar
Then a blaze through the floor
Now the chains melt
When I shout
[Chorus]
Fire on ice
When the cold claws in
I rise
I am the spark
In the long
Long night
Scars like runes
On this heart I weaponized
I turn the break
Into blazing light
Fire on ice
I burn
I burn
I will not die
[Outro]
[Drums drop out
Lone vocal over sustained guitar]
Fire on ice
Hear my battle cry
One last breath
Like a comet through the sky
Fire on ice
I burn
I burn
I will not die

metal, Epic power-speed metal ballad, double-time drums and galloping low guitars under soaring male vocals. Verses start tense with palm-muted riffs and glacial clean guitar, then explode into wide-open power chords and choirs in the chorus. Twin leads trade neoclassical lines in the bridge, riding a modulating key change and huge halftime ending with stacked harmonies and long, held notes., speed metal, power metal, ballad