[Intro][Bass ostinato in 5/4 under dry tagelharpa scratches; Loki enters with restrained anger.]

[Verse 1][Male Vocal: Loki]
I counted the rooms where my children were not,
One under frost, one under salt, one in a knot.
I counted the faces that called it defense,
Their clean little words and their sharpened sense.
The seer gave a spark, but Odin made flame,
He dressed up his terror and taught it a name.
The future was hungry, but not yet fed,
Until every frightened hand taught it to spread.

[Pre-Chorus][Male Vocal: Loki]
Bowl to the mouth, law to the blade,
Fear is a feast when a kingdom is afraid.

[Chorus][Male Vocal: Loki with Gang Vocals]
The Prophecy Was Fed, not found in the stone,
Fed by the throne, fed by the bone.
The Prophecy Was Fed with ribbon and chain,
With a daughter in frost and a son in the rain.

[Verse 2][Male Vocal: Loki]
If Fenrir had grown by the warmth of the hall,
Would he have answered the ending at all?
If Hel had been held when her cold cheek slept,
Would she have ruled the dead, or been kept?
If the serpent had known a name at the fire,
Would he have circled the world with wire?
I ask, but the answers come red from the sea,
Not what was fated—what you made us be.

[Pre-Chorus][Male Vocal: Loki]
Bowl to the mouth, lie to the lung,
The oldest king made the ending young.

[Chorus][Male Vocal: Loki with Gang Vocals]
The Prophecy Was Fed, not found in the stone,
Fed by the throne, fed by the bone.
The Prophecy Was Fed with ribbon and chain,
With a daughter in frost and a son in the rain.

[Instrumental Break][Guitars shift from 5/4 tension into a straight 4/4 march.]

[Bridge][Male Vocal: Loki]
So let the old horn wait in its hide,
Let the black ships sleep in the tide.
I will not beg for a seat at the board,
I will not polish the oath of a lord.

[Breakdown][Gang Vocals]
Child by child.
Wound by wound.
Root by root.
The ending bloomed.

[Build-up][Character Call-and-Response]
[Female Vocal: Hel]
Hel, keep the gate.
[Low Male Vocal: Jörmungandr]
Serpent, keep the ring.
[Harsh Male Vocal: Fenrir]
Fenrir, keep breathing.
[Male Vocal: Loki]
Let the fetters sing.

[Final Chorus][Male Vocal: Loki with Gang Vocals]
The Prophecy Was Fed, not found in the stone,
Fed by the throne, fed by the bone.
The Prophecy Was Fed with ribbon and chain,
With a daughter in frost and a son in the rain.
The Prophecy Was Fed; now witness the bread,
Every bite of tomorrow was given by dread.

[Outro][Male Vocal: Loki]
I turn from the hall with no prayer to send,
Not to begin war—but to end what they began.
The tagelharpa cuts like a thread through the air,
And my children answer from everywhere.