[Intro]
[Five heavy guitar strokes repeat while the drums enter one limb at a time.]

[Verse 1]
We met beyond the burial ground,
Where frost had sealed the turned-up mound.
Seven stood beneath the dawn,
With torn boar cloth between us drawn.
No mead was poured, no feast was spread,
We shared one strip of salted bread.
The bronze oath bowl was bent and black;
I carried it within my pack.

[Pre-Chorus]
No lord remained to speak the law.
No elder told us what he saw.
The ravens settled, black and still.
We named the road. We named the will.

[Chorus]
This is the Wolf Oath, measured and cold,
Not rage without rein, not hunger for gold.
We follow the footprint, we finish the trail,
We judge every oathbreaker under torn mail.
This is the Wolf Oath, no boasting, no song;
We carry the dead, but we must not become wrong.

[Verse 2]
We cut the banner from the beam,
Half boar, half charcoal at the seam.
Its lower edge was stiff with rain,
Its golden thread was scorched and stained.
I bound it to Eirik’s spear,
So absence travelled with us near.
Wolf tracks crossed the human line,
Then vanished where the black pines climbed.

[Pre-Chorus]
A beast kills clean to guard its need.
A man can name revenge a creed.
I knew the line was narrow ground,
Yet tied my axe and turned around.

[Chorus]
This is the Wolf Oath, measured and cold,
Not rage without rein, not hunger for gold.
We follow the footprint, we finish the trail,
We judge every oathbreaker under torn mail.
This is the Wolf Oath, no boasting, no song;
We carry the dead, but we must not become wrong.

[Instrumental Break]
[Five-beat riff passes from bass to guitars while drums mimic walking through deep snow.]

[Bridge]
Astrid’s warning marked my mind:
“Bring back his name. Leave flame behind.”
Yet every step across the white
Made mercy harder to define.

[Breakdown]
No fire for farms.
No blade for children.
The guilty answer.
We hunt the oathbreakers, not their land.

[Final Chorus]
This is the Wolf Oath, measured and cold,
No slaughter for silver, no murder for gold.
We follow the footprint, we finish the trail,
We bring every oathbreaker under the scale.
This is the Wolf Oath, and this is its cost:
We may finish the judgment and still remain lost.

[Outro]
[The five-beat march continues after the vocals, ending with a single missing beat.]
