The Lonely Mountain

It's a risk that I should've stopped taking The wanting, the cleaving, the trust You'd ask me to stay through the making But it's you, not me, leaving to rust Our smoldering ash stays with Me, it was me whose idea it was My belief in the city we'd create You'd ask if I knew how stable it was Did you know then you wanted a different fate You left me with smoldering Ash, on the cobblestone streets Ash in my eyes Ash on the houses and stores and the palace and You swearing you'd clean it up You holding my hand You up and running before we could make reparations Now the Lonely Mountain The halls where we both used to play It's now a lonely, desolate, damaged, and death-ridden ruin of happier days The lonely leftover leader I've sat so long in this half-empty throne room The Lonely Mountain and I Need to learn to cope without you Oh, we started our incline together Side by side through the rocky terrain You'd swear you'd stay with me and wether The sleet and the snow and the pain And when it arrived The dragon took over the palace We fought valiantly to no avail We huddled, we both needed healing And in the midst of my tears, you set sail Left my sense of self on the dock Left me cold without feeling the cold Cold in hot ash So cold in the heart that I must be a phoenix to Rise, to rebuild me again Rising higher than I've been Rising now that you won't be my friend, 'lone again, so I must make The Lonely Mountain The halls where I danced and I lay Make the homely houses and streets, monuments, bars and taverns more homely today The lonely leader Spent so long in the shadow of you and the dragon The Lonely Mountain and I Will learn to cope without you I've made peace with the dragon's presence I've accepted his hoarding the gold I've created a new way of life To aid in this town breaking the mold There can't be a place for you here if you come back I won't be asking for you anymore You'd have to fight to come back if you want it But I'll no longer eagerly wait by the door The Lonely Mountain Is a haven where I live in peace Though I know the dangers of living right under the cave of a fiery scaled beast Take the arrow and strike him down But you won't reclaim what you lost while he sleeps The Lonely Mountain and I Won't weep over you