I Just Never Died

Lyrics

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
I was young and far from Giva
When the goblin torches came
I hid in a fountain in Pitdown
Just a boy without a name
The water tasted old as night
I climbed out into dawn
And the dawn never let go of me
Four thousand years on

[Pre-Chorus]
Everyone I loved grew silver
Everyone I loved grew still
And I stayed twenty-five forever
Against my will

[Chorus]
The chronicles call me a family
A title handed down the line
For nobody believes one man
Could carry all that time
So let them keep their history
And let them keep the lie
I was never a legend
I just never died

[Verse 2]
When the ice lay on Dominaria
I kept the hidden school
And I poured my winters in a mirror
So the centuries stayed cool
A thousand griefs behind the glass
Where the madness couldn't climb
And when the world was owed a springtime
I helped the thaw arrive

[Chorus]
The chronicles call me a family
A title handed down the line
For nobody believes one man
Could carry all that time
So let them keep their history
And let them keep the lie
I was never a legend
I just never died

[Bridge]
When the dark mage wore my friend like a coat
I broke that glass across her brow
A thousand years of me went up
In the spark she carries now
Urza's blood is in my veins
But I would not build his war
I chose the weave over the wheelwork
The living thread, the open door

[Verse 3]
Now the old machine is knocking
On the world I call my own
So I step out of the footnotes
And I make the myth flesh and bone
I braid the five bright rivers
Every color, one design
Any spell the world can offer
Speak it whole, and it is mine

[Chorus]
The chronicles call me a family
A title handed down the line
For nobody believes one man
Could carry all that time
So let them keep their history
And let them keep the lie
I was never a legend
I just never died

[Outro]
Somewhere a young man in a mirror
With four thousand years behind his eyes