Fortress of Solitude

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