White Wolf, Icy Eyes

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[Verse 1]
She parked that rust-red Chevy
By the fence line past the creek
Kicked off her worn-out boots
Let the frost bite both her feet
Cold air in her lungs
Like a truth she never said
Town lights fading far behind
Like a life she’d already shed

[Pre-Chorus]
She whispered to the dark
“I’m done just getting by”
Something ancient in the pines
Seemed to answer back her cry

[Chorus]
I’ll trade my name for northern wind
Trade these hands for teeth and hide
Leave this heart that’s always begging
For a place it can’t reside
Let my bones grow wild and narrow
Let this human hunger die
Make me a white wolf in the snowfall
With those icy, icy eyes

[Verse 2]
First, her fingers stiffened
Silver creeping through her veins
Knuckles burning, skin pulled tight
Like a storm behind a pane
Nails grew long and curved
Black moons at every tip
She watched them sharpen, felt the urge
To run instead of grip

[Pre-Chorus]
Her spine began to shiver
Vertebrae like cracking ice
Shoulders widened, ribs swung open
Making room for different life

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Jawbone stretched, [low vocal register] teeth aligning
Every word she’d never spoken
Turned to breath that steamed the dark
As her human voice was broken
Hair spilled white across her shoulders
Coarse and thick along her back
Every memory of smallness
Fell away, refused to track

[Verse 3]
Eyes burned blue, then brighter
Like two chips of winter sky
She blinked, and all the clutter
Of her old world passed her by
Heartbeat slowed, then quickened
To the rhythm of the snow
Every doubt became a footprint
That the drifting wind would blow

[Chorus]

[Outro]
Now they say they see her running
Where the fields meet mountain sides
White flash through the frozen heather
Those icy, icy eyes
She don’t answer to the church bells
Or the gossip, or the lies
She just howls at the pale wide moon
With those icy, icy eyes