Rhythm in the Fjord Water (version 2)

Verse

Ghosts of my fathers rise out of the stone

Echoes in the water where our hearts were thrown

I hear the drumline calling through every shore

Rising like a tide that none of us can ignore

We used to run from this when our legs could still carry

Run for shelter, run into silence and scarred gray

But now I'm turning back to where it all began

Following the low hum like an old man's chant

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear it too? Can you feel it rise?

Is that just the tide or something in our eyes?

Chorus

Rhythm in the fjord water, pulling us under

Fading into the current where we don't need a border

Every drop is a drumbeat calling out my name

Taking me back to what I've been chasing all along again

Rhythm in the fjord water, dragging down our chains

Turning every shadow black into a river's stain

Hold on to your breath before it pulls us under too

This is how we find our home, where nothing can touch through

Verse

My brother's long gone but his feet still leave prints

Fading with the ripples but they never entirely thin

I remember learning every drum and finding my own skin

Feeling like I'd finally found a reason to give back in

These bones have been walking for years under someone else's sky

Longing for something I could barely describe, long after it died

Now I'm coming home not as the son but as the man who knows what this means

Not where we came from but where our blood still flows

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear it too? Can you feel it rise?

Is that just the tide or something in our eyes?

Chorus

Rhythm in the fjord water, pulling us under

Fading into the current where we don't need a border

Every drop is a drumbeat calling out my name

Taking me back to what I've been chasing all along again

Rhythm in the fjord water, dragging down our chains

Turning every shadow black into a river's stain

Hold on to your breath before it pulls us under too

This is how we find our home, where nothing can touch through

Bridge

Not just our father's story, not even yours or mine

Every drop that hits the stone is telling me something new this time

I'm letting go of what I thought was true and what they used to say

Because right now in this current there is only rhythm and this way

Chorus

Rhythm in the fjord water, pulling us under

Fading into the current where we don't need a border

Every drop is a drumbeat calling out my name

Taking me back to what I've been chasing all along again

Rhythm in the fjord water, dragging down our chains

Turning every shadow black into a river's stain

Hold on to your breath before it pulls us under too

This is how we find our home, where nothing can touch through