[Intro]
[Choir]
The bowstring spoke with a breath, not a cry,
A green little feather crossed under the sky.

[Verse 1]
[Male Vocal]
No thunder moved, no sword was raised,
No war-horn broke the bright god's praise.
Only a twig in a blind man's hand,
Only a smile where the trickster would stand.
The arrow kissed through cloth and skin,
And all the worlds went silent within.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Male Vocal]
His hand found air, his knees found stone,
The sun fell out of its golden throne.
Frigg saw red where no red should be,
Odin heard roots split under the tree.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
The death of the brightest god,
A green cut under white.
The death of the brightest god,
The day breaks out of sight.
Only mistletoe under blood,
And Asgard drowns in mud.

[Verse 2]
[Male Vocal]
Höðr dropped the bow as if it burned,
His blind face lifted, his body turned.
"Brother?" he called, but the word came late,
Thin as snow on a closing gate.
Loki stepped backward through breathless men,
Already elsewhere, already when.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Male Vocal]
Thor could not hammer the blood away,
Týr could not bargain the price of the day.
Frigg had no tears, only open hands,
Odin saw ash over all his lands.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
The death of the brightest god,
A green cut under white.
The death of the brightest god,
The day breaks out of sight.
Only mistletoe under blood,
And Asgard drowns in mud.

[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[A slow mournful guitar line rises over crushing downstrokes and bowed lyre dissonance.]

[Bridge]
[Choir]
One branch. One breath. One guided aim.
One brother folded under blame.
One mother frozen past all prayer.
One father staring through empty air.

[Breakdown]
[Choir]
Balder is fallen.
Balder is still.
Light on the paving.
Blood on the hill.

[Final Chorus]
[Duet]
The death of the brightest god,
A green cut under white.
The death of the brightest god,
The day breaks out of sight.
The brightest god is dead,
And morning has no light.

[Outro]
[Sudden silence, then one low harmonium note.]
The bowstring spoke with a breath, not a cry.
The sun did not answer the sky.
