Hold The White, Hold The World

Hold the white
Hold the world
Leave some winter
For tomorrow

Old blue morning
Breathing slow
Under miles
Of patient snow

Ancient water
Ancient light
Keeping watch
Through polar night

Every silence
Every tide
Holds the life
We keep inside

Hold the white
Hold the world
Leave some winter
For the gentle

Ancient ice
Stay alive
When you breathe
The whole Earth survives

Hold the white
Don’t let go
Save the cold
That shaped our home

Oh oh oh hold the white

Silver bodies
Weathered eyes
Moving soft
Through open skies

Heavy footsteps
Calm and slow
Older than
The names we know

They ask little
Take no more
Just one safe
Unbroken shore

Hold the white
Hold the world
Leave some winter
For the gentle

Ancient ice
Stay alive
When you breathe
The whole Earth survives

Hold the white
Don’t let go
Save the cold
That shaped our home

Oh oh oh hold the white

When the old ice trembles
I can feel it too
When the blue runs thinner
Something leaves us too

Not just snow and silence
Not just northern seas
Part of every memory
Breaking at the seams

When the ice is breaking
Something breaks in me

We have known
Our winters too
Hands grown tired
Hearts grown true

We have lost
And we have learned
Watched the seasons
Turn and turn

So leave room
For fur and wing
For one more dawn
For one more spring

Hold the white
Hold the world
Leave some winter
For the gentle

Ancient ice
Stay alive
When you breathe
The whole Earth survives

Hold the white
Don’t let go
Save the cold
That shaped our home

For the old ones
For the young at heart
For every quiet
Living part

Leave a living world
For everyone

Oh oh oh hold the white
Oh oh oh hold the world

Hold the white
Hold the world
Leave some winter
Leave some Earth

Ancient ice
We still hear you