Lyrics
Verse 1
The fjord is choked with the splintered pine
The sun has bled its final line
Beyond the mist, the watch-fires die
A pale, diseased light fills the sky.
The Skuld has snapped the golden thread,
The barrows open to cough their dead,
Don’t trust the path, don’t trust the shore,
The world you knew is here no more.
Chorus
I see the bad moon rising
Bloated and white like a drowned man’s face
I see the black tide climbing
To wash the world of the human race.
Verse 2
The river’s engorged with the mountain’s grief
It swallows the stone and the withered leaf
But look closer now where the currents swirl
It’s the bile of the snake that girds the world.
The banks are broken, the salt-water stings,
The shadows grow claws and the silence has wings,
The Iron Wood whispers, the giants awake,
The foundations of Midgard begin to quake.
Chorus
I see the bad moon rising
Bloated and white like a drowned man’s face
I see the black tide climbing
To wash the world of the human race.
Bridge
Hope you’ve tempered your blade in blood
Hope your hall can withstand the flood
For the sky is a shroud and the earth is a grave
And the gods have no mercy for the brave.
Verse 3
The ravens are silent, their bellies are full
The moon is a socket in a frost-giant’s skull
The river’s rising, it licks at your knee
Dragging the living down into the sea.
Don’t pray to the gallows, don’t pray to the throne
Tonight every man must go down alone.
Outro
The river is rising...
The marrow is freezing...
The moon is the only god left.
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