[Intro]
[Male Vocal]
[Soft Vocals]
The bed was warm, the dream was cold,
White ash fell where the sun turned old.

[Verse 1]
[Male Vocal]
I saw my ship on a blackened tide,
My name in sparks on the burning side.
No oar, no gull, no hand to guide,
Only the dead sun opening wide.
My mother stood with her fingers closed,
Father beneath a lidless sky.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Male Vocal]
I woke with snow in my mouth,
I woke with roots in my chest.
The hall still breathed in the south,
But my heart would not rest.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
White dreams under his eyelids,
Cold fire under the gold.
Balder sees the door of Helheim,
Open, iron, old.
When death has learned your footsteps,
The dream has already begun.

[Verse 2]
[Male Vocal]
They brought me honey, cloak, and wine,
Frigg said dreams are a broken line.
Thor struck sparks from his hammer head,
Týr spoke little and lowered his bread.
Loki asked softly what the dream had said,
And the fire went blue at the edge of red.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Male Vocal]
I heard a hoof under earth,
I heard a gate under bone.
No feast could measure my worth
If I must ride there alone.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
White dreams under his eyelids,
Cold fire under the gold.
Balder sees the door of Helheim,
Open, iron, old.
When death has learned your footsteps,
The dream has already begun.

[Instrumental Break]
[Bowed lyre carries a narrow melody while guitars answer in low sustained chords.]

[Bridge]
[Male Vocal]
Tell me, father, does wisdom bend?
Tell me, mother, can oaths defend?
If every road has a hidden end,
Why does my shadow look like a friend?

[Breakdown]
[Shouted]
No sword.
No spear.
Green wood.
Near.

[Final Chorus]
[Duet]
White dreams under his eyelids,
Cold fire under the gold.
Balder sees the door of Helheim,
Open, iron, old.
White dreams, white dreams,
The brightest god sees none.

[Outro]
[Male Vocal]
[Soft Vocals]
The bed was warm, the dream was cold,
White ash fell where the sun turned old.
