[Intro]
[Choir]
[Soft Vocals]
They carried him down where the black waves run,
To the ship that burned the sun.

[Verse 1]
[Male Vocal]
Oak planks groaned on the funeral shore,
Gold shields leaned by the cedar door.
Balder lay in the linen white,
Cold as noon with its pulse gone quiet.
Frigg placed flowers beside his head,
Odin bent with Draupnir for the dead.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Choir]
The sea held still, the gulls flew wide,
No wave dared break on the holy side.
The pyre drank oil, the torches spun,
And dusk came early around the sun.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
The ship that burned the sun went down,
Gold on the water, ash on the crown.
The ship that burned the sun sailed far,
Past the last red funeral star.
We gave him fire, we gave him foam,
But flame cannot carry the living home.

[Verse 2]
[Male Vocal]
Thor struck the deck till the timbers cried,
Höðr knelt broken where none replied.
Loki was hunted by every stare,
Blame froze hard in the funeral air.
Draupnir flashed in firelight red,
Nine nights of gold for the lord of the dead.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Choir]
The mast leaned black, the sail caught flame,
Smoke wrote ruin in Balder's name.
Frigg held silence like a stone,
And every god felt suddenly alone.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
The ship that burned the sun went down,
Gold on the water, ash on the crown.
The ship that burned the sun sailed far,
Past the last red funeral star.
We gave him fire, we gave him foam,
But flame cannot carry the living home.

[Instrumental Break]
[Long bowed lyre lament over slow drums and low open guitar chords.]

[Bridge]
[Male Vocal]
Oars cannot row where breath has ceased,
Gold cannot ransom the beloved feast.
Fire can honor, fire can send,
But fire cannot bargain the end.

[Build-up]
[Choir]
Still the smoke climbed.
Still the hull turned.
Still the gods watched.
Still the sun burned.

[Final Chorus]
[Duet]
The ship that burned the sun went down,
Gold on the water, ash on the crown.
The ship that burned the sun sailed far,
Past the last red funeral star.
The ship that burned the sun is gone,
And Asgard wakes without a dawn.

[Outro]
[Choir]
[Soft Vocals]
They carried him down where the black waves run,
To the ship that burned the sun.