Be a wolf in heaven

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I keep a worn-out collar underneath my bed, A silver moon stitched where the old thread bled. They say, "Come back, that sky's not real, just focus on the crowd." But I've seen a wild blue no fence could ever hold, A country past the weather, beyond the dark and cold. I walk through the winter with dust in my shoes, Carrying a promise I refuse to lose. When the chapel bells are shaking and the north wind calls, I hear four paws running past the garden walls. [Pre-Chorus] They can laugh at the road, They can bury the flame, But a heart born for running Still remembers its name. They say it's just a story that the lonely tell. [Chorus] I'll be a wolf in heaven, where the open fields run wide, With a silver river turning and no sorrow left to hide. If I wake inside another body, if I lose this face again, I'll keep walking toward the sunrise till I find my home, and then— I'll be a wolf in heaven, and I'll be free in the end. [Verse 2] Maybe I'll come back as a child with a tail, Or a two-legged dream with a moon in its trail. Maybe something stitched from human and from beast, Still I'll know that old hunger, still I'll want to keep the peace. I won't let this wolf inside me hurt the ones I love, I'll shine above the rooftops like a lantern up above. Folks say, "You die once, and the story is done," But I've died in a thousand ways beneath a thousand suns. Each life leaves a mark, each breath starts anew, And the wolf in my chest keeps on pulling me through. [Pre-Chorus] Let the grave close its door, Let the years turn to dust, Faith is a match in the rain, And it still burns for us. [Chorus] I'll be a wolf in heaven, where the open fields run wide, With a silver river turning and no sorrow left to hide. If I wake inside another body, if I lose this face again, I'll keep walking toward the sunrise till I find my home, and then— I'll be a wolf in heaven, and I'll be free in the end. [Bridge] If heaven is a story, let me tell it brave and true, Let every goodbye be a doorway, not a bell that rings us through. I won't chase the dark down—I will wait out my hour, With my heart still beating under rain and under flowers. And when the last road opens, when the earthly tethers fall, I'll hear a pack cry softly, and I'll answer to the call. [Chorus] I'll be a wolf in heaven, where the open fields run wide, With a silver river turning and no sorrow left to hide. If I wake inside another body, if I lose this face again, I'll keep walking toward the sunrise till I find my home, and then— I'll be a wolf in heaven, and I'll be free in the end. [Outro] So tell them I'm still hoping, though my eyes are full of rain, The road may bend through lifetimes, but I will know the way. No shape can hold forever what a faithful heart defends— I'll be a wolf in heaven, and I'll be free in the end.