The World Tree

Описание: [Intro]
Oar to the bone
Salt in the wound
Under a sky
Like a closing tomb

[Verse 1]
Men on the mast
Women on the prow
We sing to the void
“Take us now”
Ropes hum low
Like a funeral tune
Lanterns swing
Like a hanged man’s shoes

[Pre-Chorus]
Where do the roots run?
Under our keel?
Is this the end of us
Or somewhere to heal?

[Chorus]
Raise your eyes to the World Tree
Iron roots in a blood-red sea
Every branch bears a broken name
(hey!)
Up we climb through the wind and shame
Sing low
Sing loud
Till the bark splits open our doubt
Raise your eyes to the World Tree
If we fall
It remembers me

[Verse 2]
Teeth of ice
Gnaw at the hull
Every breath
Comes heavy
Dull
I hear a creak
From the deep unseen
Like chains on a beast
In a rusted dream

I taste ash
In the driving rain
Every prayer
Comes back in vain
But somewhere high
Past the storm’s black thread
I see pale roots
Like a crown of dead

[Pre-Chorus]
Is that a promise
Or just a curse?
Climb it
Coward
It can’t be worse
If we bleed out
On this cold black foam
Let the branches
Drag us home

[Chorus]
Raise your eyes to the World Tree
Iron roots in a blood-red sea
Every branch bears a broken name
(woah)
Up we climb through the wind and shame
Sing low
Sing loud
Till the bark splits open our doubt
Raise your eyes to the World Tree
If we fall
It remembers me

[Breakdown]
Hardanger howls
Nyckelharpa cries
Deck turns wild
Like a painted ride
Hats and masks
Spinning round and round
Carnival of ghosts
On the drowning ground

Hei-ya-lei-yo
Call through the gale
Hei-ya-lei-yo
For the ones who failed
Hei-ya-lei-yo
Up where ravens feed
On the thin
Thin fruit
Of the World Tree’s need

[Verse 3]
We lash our grief
To the crooked bark
Claw-scarred wood
Glows faint and dark
Faces in the grain
Blink once
Then sleep
Every oath we broke
Sinks down
Stays deep

Mouths full of splinters
Hands torn raw
We climb through memory
We climb through war
Above
The crown
Spins slow
Off-kilter
Like a dying fair
With a broken filter

[Pre-Chorus]
If I let go
Will it let me rest?
If I let go
Will it take my chest?
If this is mercy
Let it be rough
We were never
Gentle enough

[Chorus]
Raise your eyes to the World Tree
Iron roots in a blood-red sea
Every branch bears a broken name
(hey!)
Up we climb through the wind and shame
Sing low
Sing loud
Till the bark splits open our doubt
Raise your eyes to the World Tree
If we fall
It remembers me

[Breakdown]
Stamp that deck
’Till the planks all scream
Spin that grief
Like a cursed machine
Hoist that sorrow
High
Obscene
Turn this wreck
To a crooked parade

Left foot
Right foot
Over the line
Step by step
On a rotten spine
Laugh in the face
Of the bitter brine
Dead men dance
In a crooked time

Hei-ya-lei-yo
For the ones below
Hei-ya-lei