[Intro]
[Duet]
[Soft Vocals]
Where the mistletoe grows, the snow will not sing,
A small green mouth remembers everything.

[Verse 1]
[Male Vocal]
No feast returns to its first bright sound,
No cup rings clean when the sun is drowned.
The rafters hold a duller gold,
The hearth burns low and the bread grows cold.
Balder's chair by the fire stays bare,
A white cloak folded with no one there.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Choir]
The world still turns, but it turns with a seam,
The river still runs, but it runs through a dream.
The ravens still fly, but they do not call,
Asgard is standing and learning to fall.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
Where the mistletoe grows, no blade had known,
Where the mistletoe grows, the seed was sown.
Where the mistletoe grows, the bright god lies,
A green little silence under dead sunlight skies.
Where the mistletoe grows, remember the cost,
The smallest forgotten thing is never lost.

[Verse 2]
[Female Vocal]
Hermóðr came back with the law of the dead,
No golden sunrise, no lifted head.
Odin listens to roots below,
Far horns moving in iron snow.
Höðr sits broken on Balder's side,
And Frigg walks past with the sea in her eyes.

[Pre-Chorus]
[Choir]
The oath became ash, and the ash became seed,
The seed became warning no god would heed.
The warning became a shape in the foam,
A road that will one day guide all gods home.

[Chorus]
[Duet]
Where the mistletoe grows, no blade had known,
Where the mistletoe grows, the seed was sown.
Where the mistletoe grows, the bright god lies,
A green little silence under dead sunlight skies.
Where the mistletoe grows, remember the cost,
The smallest forgotten thing is never lost.

[Instrumental Break]
[Bowed lyre reprises the opener melody while acoustic guitar holds slow open chords.]

[Bridge]
[Duet]
Beyond the wolf, beyond the flame,
Beyond the ruin of every name,
Two brothers meet where new fields rise,
With no green arrow between their eyes.

[Build-up]
[Choir]
Gold in the rafters.
Blood on the snow.
Draupnir in fire.
Mistletoe grows.

[Final Chorus]
[Duet]
Where the mistletoe grows, no blade had known,
Where the mistletoe grows, the seed was sown.
Where the mistletoe grows, remember the cost,
The smallest forgotten thing is never lost.
Where the mistletoe grows, the old world knows,
Every ending begins where the mistletoe grows.

[Outro]
[Choir]
[Low harmonium plays the three-note motif one last time.]
Gold in the rafters, frost on the rail,
A small green mouth remembers the tale.
