A life isn't built on the easy days, It’s forged in the smoke and the freezing haze. You watched the people come and go, You watched the money run dangerously low. No cameras around, no crowd to please, Just the Alaskan wind moving through the trees. If the whole world vanished, if the sky went black, If we lost it all and couldn't go back, I wouldn’t look for an escape or a door, Because I don't have to ask you anymore. I've seen the truth in the dead of the night: You’ll take the rain, and you’ll hold the light. I watched it all happen, the ebb and the flow, The fair-weather crowd as they packed up to go. Let the money run thin, let the cameras go blind, They left nothing but worthless static behind. The Alaskan wind knows what we built in the dark, It takes more than a blizzard to bury this spark. If the sky turns to ash and the world disappears, We’ve already traded our doubts for the years. I’ll hold the light when your fingers are cold, A silent witness to a story untold. You saw the fractures inside my chest, The heavy secrets I ne'er confessed, The ghost of every forgotten vow, That brought us down to the stark right now. There are no medals for staying true When the sky turns gray and the rent is due, But your devotion was never bought, It was the anchor the tempest caught. The mountain peaks may be stark and bare, But they are honest in the winter air, And like those ridges against the blue, I found my absolute truth in you. I saw the fractures, I knew the scars, Long before we slept under frozen stars. I didn't choose you for a sunny day, Or for an easy, well-traveled way. I chose the fighter, the rugged soul, The one who keeps walking when winters take toll. So let the receipts and the bills pile high, We have a wealth that money can't buy. They can keep their medals and worldly praise, We have the truth of these frozen days.
