[Intro — Nordic Atmosphere, Instrumental]
[Icy wind over a frozen shore. A mournful harmonized guitar motif rises above a deep tagelharpa-like drone. Add frame drums, distant horns, and a low Viking-style wordless choir chanting slowly. Build into a heavy full-band hit.]
[Viking Choir — Low, Distant, Wordless]
Ho… hey… Ho… hey…
[Verse 1 — Restrained Clean Vocals]
I followed the coast through a winter without end,
past roofs pressed low beneath the snow.
The harbor chains were locked in ice.
No lights were waiting in the windows.
I knew the shape of every doorway,
the path that once led home.
But smoke no longer climbed the chimneys,
and the village stood alone.
[Pre-Chorus — Clean Vocals, Rising Tension]
The wind kept calling out their names.
The sea returned no answer.
Beneath the snow, beneath the silence,
something still refused to die.
[Chorus — Melodic Clean Vocals, Viking Choir in the Background]
When the ice gives way,
we’ll find the road beneath.
When the last flame fades,
we’ll carry what remains.
I came back searching for a home
that winter took from me.
If no one lights the fire,
then the fire starts with me.
[Viking Choir — Wordless, Sustained]
Ho… hey…
[Verse 2 — Clean Vocals, Driving Riffs]
I found a mark beside the old well,
a carved line beneath the frost.
A child’s hand, a fading promise,
a map of all we lost.
The longships slept beneath the snow.
The hall stood cold and bare.
Still, I heard the hammer’s rhythm
in the silence of the air.
[Pre-Chorus — Clean Vocals, Bigger Build]
The wind kept calling out their names.
The sea returned no answer.
But deep beneath the frozen ground,
a buried ember stirred.
[Chorus — Bigger, Melodic Clean Vocals with Layered Choir]
When the ice gives way,
we’ll find the road beneath.
When the last flame fades,
we’ll carry what remains.
I came back searching for a home
that winter took from me.
If no one lights the fire,
then the fire starts with me.
[Breakdown — Heavy Half-Time, High Screams and Viking Choir]
[Crushing half-time guitars, pounding frame drums, and low group chants. Begin with clean vocals, then break into high screams. The choir answers the lead vocal with short, rhythmic calls.]
[Clean Vocals]
The snow can cover every road—
[Viking Choir]
Ho! Hey!
[High Scream]
BUT IT CAN’T BURY US!
[Clean Vocals]
The cold can silence every voice—
[Viking Choir]
Ho! Hey!
[High Scream]
BUT IT CAN’T TAKE THE FIRE!
[Bridge — Fragile Clean Vocals, Gradual Build]
I set one flame against the dark.
It shook, but did not die.
I thought I came to find the past.
I came to choose what survives.
[Frame drums and harmonized guitars rise. The Viking choir slowly builds beneath the final line.]
[Final Chorus — Full Band, Emotional Clean Vocals and Epic Choir]
When the ice gives way,
we’ll find the road beneath.
When the last flame fades,
we’ll carry what remains.
I came back searching for a home
that winter took from me.
If no one lights the fire,
then the fire starts with me.
[Viking Choir — Broad, Wordless Chant]
Ho… hey… Ho… hey…
[Outro — Clean Vocals, Fading Nordic Motif]
The snow still covers the old road.
The wind still crosses the sea.
But one light burns against the night.
And now it burns in me.
[The choir fades into the wind. End with the opening guitar motif, a final frame-drum beat, and silence.]
