Svargroðr (version 2)

Verse

Shadows move across the wall, slow and wide

Iron fists unclench from steel and stone, heavy eyes open wide

Bare feet on the frost that forms where the cold air meets the ground

I feel the weight of all I've found

And in this moment, nothing holds me down

Nothing here is mine, but still I'll wear it like a crown

In darkness there's an opening, and I'm stepping through the door

Every night will be forever more

Pre-Chorus

Hold your breath, don't let it out

The world turns slow in this unbroken rout

Feet on ice where shadows fall

Feel it rising from behind them all

Nothing's locked but I already know what waits

In every corner of the cold that we create

Turn your face to me and say you'll follow

Through the black until it glows like gold

Hold your breath, don't let it out

Hold your breath, don't let it out

Chorus

Run with shadows till they're white

Follow nothing into what's right

Bare feet, iron fists, we walk alone in light

Svargroðr rising where the night turns gold

Nothing holds me down, nothing owns this place

This is mine and I will claim it with my face

We are darkness turning silver and gold

We are running out of control

Verse

Snowfall thickens on the collarbone

Bare chest open to the cold that's thrown

Every step a ritual that unwinds

Each one leaving me behind, left behind

In the city all the sirens fade

Replaced by nothing but this road we made

Shadows turn to mist and then they're gone

Leaving only what I've found in darkness

Iron fists unclench and steel goes still

Bare feet move across the frozen hill

Every night will be forever more

And in this moment, nothing holds me down

Nothing here is mine, but still I'll wear it like a crown

In darkness there's an opening, and I'm stepping through the door

Every night will be forever more

Pre-Chorus

Hold your breath, don't let it out

The world turns slow in this unbroken rout

Feet on ice where shadows fall

Feel it rising from behind them all

Nothing's locked but I already know what waits

In every corner of the cold that we create

Turn your face to me and say you'll follow

Through the black until it glows like gold

Hold your breath, don't let it out

Hold your breath, don't let it out

Chorus

Run with shadows till they're white

Follow nothing into what's right

Bare feet, iron fists, we walk alone in light

Svargroðr rising where the night turns gold

Nothing holds me down, nothing owns this place

This is mine and I will claim it with my face

We are darkness turning silver and gold

We are running out of control

Bridge

No city lights, no distant hum

Just the frost under our bare feet, warm as blood in a vein that's numb

I don't feel chains that would bind this ground

Nothing left to find here but the sound

Of every shadow turning white and gold

Every single one I've ever known

Fading fast into the light we hold

Nowhere left for shadows to hide

Only us and the city turning wide

Hold your breath, let it go, let it turn