Fortress of Solitude · letra

I am the ghost of haunting hope A trailing phantom Some withering wisp of smoke slipping by And these are my words flung through the sky Trailing red like a cape Longing to fly On this, their thirteenth try This prison of mine is to carry alone The light of one red sun Beneath my skin And never, ever go home To watch the ravens fly so very far, far away
Chorus: Fortress of solitude, I'll stay here, I'll make you all believe And if my words have forked no lightning Never shall I sleep again
With sickening speed, red hearts on blue sleeves The bullets of your words Could scarcely set their teeth into me But I am made frail in one single bound My traitorous soil Slings me so far down without a sound To watch the ravens fly so very far, far away
Chorus
Never going to stop, not a break in my stride Never let this cancer eat from inside Raise the flag high with fists to the sky I'll finish this or this is goodbye Spies to the right set their claws to kill me Lies from the left clasp their jaws on the guilty I'll break free, I'll break free Just you watch me
So discouraged, so dismayed See the poison, dripping from their blades There is lightning left in these words I will still fly, rising with the birds I have carried the sun in my skin I cannot stop, I cannot win Forked tongues, forcing me to kneel As if I was no man made of steel What if these weak words that I have tripped on Sing that I am the last son of Krypton? I hate you all, I hate you all This will never sleep