[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Fingerpicked lyre sounds above EE-meer’s distant four-beat pulse.]

[Verse 1]
He slept beside the steaming rime,
Unwarned by law, untouched by time.
Milk dried white along his beard,
His open hand held nothing feared.
No sword had taught his flesh to seal,
No crown had made him friend or foe.
He breathed, and every vapor spun—
The giant who never saw the sun.

[Verse 2]
I stood where one closed eye could span
More space than any future land.
A child of accident and heat,
With rivers coiled beneath his feet.
Was hunger guilt before a rule?
Was shapeless birth itself so cruel?
I knew what must—and might—be done
To one who never saw the sun.

[Refrain]
Sleep while the frost still cools your brow.
You do not know my purpose now.
No dawn has warmed your open palm;
No bird has pierced the vapor’s calm.
Sleep, first father, first undone—
The giant who never saw the sun.

[Verse 3]
VEE-lee sharpened thought to steel,
VAY prepared the binding seal.
They spoke of shores and ordered skies,
Of timber, wheat and human eyes.
I saw them too—the fields, the rain—
Yet every vision bore a stain.
A million lives might rise from one,
The giant who never saw the sun.

[Bridge]
If I withdraw, the void remains
A swelling flesh without domains.
If I strike, the first law made
Will bear the outline of a blade.
What kind of wisdom counts the dead
Before the living break their bread?

[Instrumental]
[Instrumental Direction: Tagelharpa completes the missing third note while a single guitar sustains beneath it.]

[Refrain]
Sleep while the frost still cools your brow.
My brothers wait behind me now.
No dawn has warmed your open palm;
Soon blood will drown the vapor’s calm.
Sleep, first father, first undone—
The giant who never saw the sun.

[Build-up]
I laid one hand against his skin.
The heart below struck hard within.
For one brief breath, our pulses ran
Like equal clocks without a plan.
Then VEE-lee called. Then VAY replied.
I took my hand away—and lied:

[Final Chorus]
“You are the wall no world can cross.
Your death will purchase every loss.
Your flesh will field, your skull will sky,
Your blood will teach the seas to rise.”
But no fair words could make it none—
The murder waiting for the sun.

[Coda]
Sleep, first father, first undone,
You die before the dawn begins.

[Outro]
He turned once in his dreamless rest.
A drop of melt ran down his chest.
I heard his heart beneath my hand—
Then joined my brothers where they’d stand.