Aurora

This far north in a life
The sun becomes a rumor
Noon's a paler kind of night
And the cold moved into the house
I've been walking on the frozen dark
Like it's the only ground there is
And I stopped looking up some winters back
What's up there but more of this

But the old ones tell it different
They say the black is not the end
They say the coldest, longest darkness
Is the only place the fire descends

Aurora
Born of black
Aurora
The night gives back
Coldest sky
Rarest light
Look up
Look up
It only shows at night

'Cause the light was always raining
Every hour, every day
It takes the dark to see it
It takes the cold to make it stay
So all my blackest winters
Weren't the absence of the flame
They were the only sky I'd ever get
Where the fire signs its name

And I feel the air go charged tonight
The frozen ground gone still
Something's moving on the mountain rim
Something green about to spill

The rim is glowing
After all these years of black
Look up
The whole sky's on fire
Look up
The dark was the wick
It was always the wick

Aurora
Worth the black
Aurora
The night paid back
Every cold
Every night
Look up
Look up
I'm keeping on the light

Still winter, still far north
But nobody here stops looking up anymore