Begun Anew

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I built a lodge with my own two hands,
pelts on the chairs and a river-stone hearth.
Three came asking at the edge of my clearing,
the gorgon, the lion, the girl made of sparks.
I named one price for the help I'd give them,
somebody who knows how a curse is sealed.
Then they told me you were caged in his tower,
and I said leave her. Let her rot where she's kept.

[Verse 2]
He got in my arms, that telepath,
turned every muscle to rope and rain.
The axe fell out of my shaking hand.
Five more years and I'd be in the grave.
Then I found him small, a boy in the rain,
crying he didn't know his own name,
and I knelt in the mud and I said I know you,
and he said we can always start again.

[Pre-Chorus]
I told him, so have I.
I have begun anew.

[Chorus]
I will not forgive you, witch,
but I won't be what you made.
I have begun again before,
and I'll begin again today.
Your curse can have the man I was.
It doesn't get the one who stayed.

[Verse 3]
Then the tower came down around us,
and there you were with your arms spread wide,
no spell raised up, no tricks, no running,
just "you already won" in your violet eyes.
Kill me, you said, if it makes you feel better,
I died years ago in the ways that count.
So I lowered the axe and I asked about the twins,
and you said you'd fight me for them. That was enough.

[Pre-Chorus]
I told the boy, so have I.
I have begun anew.

[Chorus]
I will not forgive you, witch,
but I won't be what you made.
I have begun again before,
and I'll begin again today.
Your curse can have the man I was.
It doesn't get the one who stayed.

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
I will not forgive you, witch,
but I won't be what you made.
I have begun again before,
and I'll begin again today.
Your curse can have the man I was.
It doesn't get the one who stayed.

[Outro]
I have begun anew.
I'll begin again.