Polar Bear — White Engine

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
On the white that wants me dead I am the warmest thing alive,
a half-ton furnace walking where the cold says none survive.
I haul the seal up through the ice like it weighs nothing at all,
and I swim a hundred miles of black to answer winter's call.

[Chorus]
White engine — I run on the cold —
the strongest thing on the killing floor of snow.
Everything here is trying to end me;
I am the one thing winter couldn't grow… but didn't beat.

[Verse 2]
The strength is just the cost of living somewhere built to kill —
you grow this big or you grow gone; I grew enormous, and I'm here still.
Drag the weight, cross the water, never once lie down —
the white engine keeps on burning where the warm things drown.

[Outro]
(wind) … still here … still warm … still here …