[Intro]
[Choir]
Not with a wolf. Not with a flame.
Ragnarök entered under Balder's name.

[Verse 1]
[Male Vocal]
The benches stood where the feast had died,
Cups lay cold on the golden side.
Frigg sat white as a winter wall,
Thor's hand shook on the hammer's maul.
Odin rose, but his voice came cracked,
Frozen bark where the axe strikes back.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Male Vocal]
The roof still held, but the hall had split,
The lamps still burned, but no warmth in it.
The gods still lived, the thrones still shone,
But the age they knew was gone.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
The first crack of Ragnarök runs through the hall,
Not in the stars, but the hearts of all.
The first crack of Ragnarök, thin and deep,
Where mothers cannot cry and fathers cannot sleep.
The brightest god fell under gold and oak,
The family broke, the family broke.

[Verse 2]
[Male Vocal]
They bound their anger, they sharpened blame,
They hunted the shape of Loki's name.
No revenge could return the breath,
No chain could bargain with Balder's death.
Höðr carried the guided sin,
A brother dead and a lie within.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Male Vocal]
The oath was broken by what never swore,
The game lay bleeding at Asgard's door.
The gods had laughter, the gods had law,
But none could seal what the green wood saw.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
The first crack of Ragnarök runs through the hall,
Not in the stars, but the hearts of all.
The first crack of Ragnarök, thin and deep,
Where mothers cannot cry and fathers cannot sleep.
The brightest god fell under gold and oak,
The family broke, the family broke.

[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Melodic guitar line and bowed lyre repeat Balder's motif over crushing triplet drums.]

[Bridge]
[Male Vocal]
This is how endings learn to breathe,
Not with the first sword drawn from the sheath,
But with a feast that cannot resume,
And a chair left bright in an empty room.

[Breakdown]
[Choir]
Balder below.
Asgard above.
Law without mercy.
Power without love.

[Build-up]
[Choir]
Count the rings, count the dead.
Count the words the silent said.
Count the twig, count the blood.
Count how soon the horns will sound.

[Final Chorus]
[Duet]
The first crack of Ragnarök runs through the hall,
Not in the stars, but the hearts of all.
The first crack of Ragnarök widens tonight,
No dawn can mend the murdered light.
A green little branch with a god's red blood,
Answers the horn, the fire, the flood.

[Outro]
[Choir]
Not with a wolf. Not with a flame.
Ragnarök entered under Balder's name.
