[Intro]
River teeth. River skin.
Hide the god who slipped within.

[Verse 1]
I left the hall through smoke and sleet,
Curses caked beneath my feet.
I broke my shape, I broke my name,
A silver back in blackened rain.
Franangr rolled with stones and foam,
No roof, no throne, no wife, no home.
The current combed my spine like wire,
Cold enough to skin a liar.

[Pre-Chorus]
But clever hands remember knots,
And clever mouths forget their plots.
The net I dreamed, the net I spun,
Was waking in the hands of one.

[Chorus]
I am the salmon under Franangr,
A flash of scale, a cut of anger.
I dart, I dive, I bite the flow,
But every river learns the snow.

[Verse 2]
They came with poles and woven cord,
Thor in silence, Odin's horde.
No thunder bragged, no raven cried,
Only mesh from side to side.
I leapt above the blackened stream,
A blade of wet and broken gleam.
Thor's fist closed hard around my tail,
And all my cunning thinned and failed.

[Chorus]
I am the salmon under Franangr,
A flash of scale, a cut of anger.
I dart, I dive, I bite the flow,
But every river learns the snow.

[Instrumental Break][Fast drums chase jagged guitar figures; tagelharpa answers in three clipped notes.]

[Bridge]
Water remembers every face,
Even one that changes skin.
A god may flee his chosen place,
But not the knots he tied within.

[Build-up]
Grip on scale.
Breath turns red.
River wails.
Net is spread.

[Final Chorus]
I was the salmon under Franangr,
A silver lie, a hunted anger.
I leapt, I tore, I struck the flow,
But every river served the snow.
I was the salmon under Franangr,
Caught by the craft I used to know.

[Outro]
On the bank, in Odin's sight,
My human bones returned to night.