[Intro]
Ravens over red snow
Circle where the cold winds blow
No more names and no more cries
Only wings beneath the skies

[Verse]
Morning found the valley torn
With shields half-buried in the storm
The pines were bent like grieving men
The dead would not come home again
A brother clutched an enemy’s hand
Both too young to understand
That hate had dressed them for the grave
And called them honorable and brave

[Pre-Chorus]
The horns are gone
The drums are still
The red snow lies
On every hill

[Chorus]
Ravens Over Red Snow
Tell the tale the living know
Every blade that drank too deep
Gives the earth more sons to keep
Ravens Over Red Snow
Where the frozen rivers flow
No victory song, no hero’s crown
Only the sky looking down

[Verse]
The widows came with covered heads
To search the silence of the dead
They found no clan in opened eyes
Only boys beneath red skies
A father lifted up his son
And saw the war had not been won
For in the child’s unbreathing face
He found the end of his own race

[Pre-Chorus]
The flags are torn
The prayers are thin
The cold has entered
Under skin

[Chorus]
Ravens Over Red Snow
Tell the tale the living know
Every blade that drank too deep
Gives the earth more sons to keep
Ravens Over Red Snow
Where the frozen rivers flow
No victory song, no hero’s crown
Only the sky looking down

[Instrumental]
Fiddle mourns above blackened riffs
Blast beats crack like splitting cliffs
Choirs rise, then fall away
Like souls that cannot bear the day

[Bridge]
Who taught the young to love the blade
Who taught the old to call it fate
Who sold the dead a noble lie
Then watched the ravens fill the sky

[Breakdown]
Red snow
Black wing
No king
No spring
Cold hand
Last breath
One land
One death

[Build-up]
And in the hush between the cries
One warrior lowered bloodshot eyes
He saw his foe, he saw his kin
He saw the same grief carved within

[Chorus]
Ravens Over Red Snow
Tell the tale the living know
Every blade that drank too deep
Gives the earth more sons to keep
Ravens Over Red Snow
Where the frozen rivers flow
No victory song, no hero’s crown
Only the sky looking down

[Chorus]
Ravens Over Red Snow
Carry what the winds won’t show
Tell the moon, and tell the sea
We are not what we swore to be
Ravens Over Red Snow
Let the bitter memory grow
No triumph waits beyond this ground
Only the sky looking down

[Outro]
Ravens over red snow
Circle where the cold winds blow