[Intro] Down from the stone Down from the air Down where the cold Learns how to stare [Verse 1] I thought the rune was carved in granite I thought the danger had a face But it followed me behind my eyelids Burning quiet in a hidden place Every breath could make it open Every dream could loose the door So I wrapped my tongue in silence And walked deeper than before [Pre-Chorus] Do not speak Do not sleep Carry the lock Where no hands reach [Chorus] This is the seer’s descent With the final word unsaid This is the seer’s descent Past the living, past the dead If my mouth becomes the doorway If my blood becomes the key I will go where sound cannot follow Till the rune is sealed in me [Verse 2] The walls grew narrow as a throat The ice pressed close around my ears I counted steps by drops of water Falling slower than my fears A fox skull grinned beside the passage Silvered over, clean and small In its teeth, a thread of blue wool From the village in the valley wall [Pre-Chorus] Every sign Had led me here Not to learn But disappear [Chorus] This is the seer’s descent With the final word unsaid This is the seer’s descent Past the living, past the dead If my mouth becomes the doorway If my blood becomes the key I will go where sound cannot follow Till the rune is sealed in me [Breakdown] No name No flame No song No claim No cry No sky No shore No more [Bridge] But I am not empty I carry the rain My mother’s scarf And my father’s name I carry the raven Cut out of wood I carry the warning As far as I should [Build-up] The passage opened into blackness The drums began below Not played by hands, not struck by bone But by the heart of snow [Final Chorus] This is the seer’s descent With the final word unsaid This is the seer’s descent Past the living, past the dead If my mouth becomes the doorway If my blood becomes the key I will go where sound cannot follow Till the rune is sealed in me This is the seer’s descent Let the upper fires burn This is the seer’s descent I will not return [Outro] Down from the stone Down from the air Down where the cold Keeps what we bear