[Intro]
[Galloping toms begin immediately as horns sound the descending alarm.]

[Chorus]
Wolves across the sun, black teeth in the gold,
Daylight torn open, the noon turning cold.
Run, bright wheel, run—but the old chase is done;
All the earth darkens with wolves across the sun.

[Verse 1]
At noon the hens returned to roost,
The horses kicked against the post.
A red rim formed around the day,
Then shrank as jaws crossed through its ray.
Men raised their hands to shield their sight;
Their palms turned black against the light.
A child cried out, “The moon is there,”
But Hati’s breath had reached it first.

[Pre-Chorus]
The sky became a wounded hide,
With crimson beating through its side.
The horns below took up the run—
Too late, too late, the chase was done.

[Chorus]
Wolves across the sun, black teeth in the gold,
Daylight torn open, the noon turning cold.
Run, bright wheel, run—but the old chase is done;
All the earth darkens with wolves across the sun.

[Verse 2]
Sköll felt the fire along his tongue,
The heat of ages, bright and young.
He bit through summer, seed and noon,
While Hati closed around the moon.
The stars appeared in midday red,
Like nail-heads driven for the dead.
Across the field each polished spear
Reflected night and naked fear.

[Pre-Chorus]
No cloud had moved, no evening came;
The dark arrived with teeth and name.
The shield-wall bent, but did not run;
It watched the wolves consume the sun.

[Chorus]
Wolves across the sun, black teeth in the gold,
Daylight torn open, the noon turning cold.
Run, bright wheel, run—but the old chase is done;
All the earth darkens with wolves across the sun.

[Guitar Solo]
[Lead guitar and orchestral horns trade descending phrases over galloping drums and rapid bowed strings.]

[Bridge]
The warrior raised his faded shield;
Its painted rays went dark in the field.
The woman knelt by the oath-fire’s coal;
For one brief breath it burned like gold.
The untouched horn caught one red gleam,
Then darkness covered cup and beam.
Across the roots, the hidden fire
Climbed one hand higher, higher, higher.

[Breakdown]
No noon.
No moon.
No road through the sky.
Only two jaws
And the light learning why.

[Build-up]
Strike shield against shield.
Let the iron reply.
The gods have looked upward.
The gods, too, can die.

[Final Chorus]
Wolves across the sun, black teeth in the gold,
Daylight torn open, the Nine Realms cold.
Run, bright wheel, run—but your last course is done;
Every oath darkens with wolves across the sun.
Moon in one hunger, day in the other,
Night falls at noon like a grave on its brother.
Raise every shield though no battle is won—
We stand in the dark under wolves across the sun.

[Outro]
The red ring narrowed.
The last ray bled.
The wolf closed its jaw.
And daylight was dead.