[Intro]
No autumn left. No thaw returns.
The sun hangs dull while hayfields burn.

[Verse 1]
Frost came early through the rye,
Bit the seed and sealed the sky.
Crows stood still on the pasture gate,
Too cold to cry, too starved to wait.
Mothers scraped the barrel floor,
Fathers barred the neighbor's door.
Wells wore lids of blue-black glass,
Hoofprints froze in broken grass.

[Pre-Chorus]
No prophet needed raven speech,
The cold had claws for all in reach.
Each oath once warmed by ring and fire
Turned white as bone and thin as wire.

[Chorus]
Fimbulwinter begins, Fimbulwinter begins,
Three long teeth in the year's old skin.
Fields lie dead and the wolves come in,
Fimbulwinter begins.

[Verse 2]
Brothers counted loaves by knife,
Sisters hid the last dry life.
Kings sent riders through the snow,
Not for peace, but debt and bow.
In Asgard, doors were sealed with gold,
Yet every cup still tasted cold.
The gods heard storms around their eaves,
And shook like thieves among the leaves.

[Chorus]
Fimbulwinter begins, Fimbulwinter begins,
Three long teeth in the year's old skin.
Fields lie dead and the wolves come in,
Fimbulwinter begins.

[Guitar Solo][Fast minor harmonies ride above blast drums, then fall into the tagelharpa motif.]

[Bridge]
It did not fall from empty sky,
It grew where mercy went to die.
It did not come as fate alone,
It came through cord, through child, through stone.

[Breakdown]
Lock the grain.
Break the kin.
Count the slain.
Let winter in.

[Final Chorus]
Fimbulwinter begins, Fimbulwinter begins,
Three long teeth in the year's old skin.
Fields lie dead and the wolves come in,
Fimbulwinter begins.
Fimbulwinter begins, Fimbulwinter begins,
The age of broken oaths crawls in.

[Outro]
At the cave, one drop fell slow.
On every roof, it answered: snow.