When the Northwind Breaks (version 2)

Verse

Ridge runs red where the sun goes down

Crows leave black prints in the frost on the ground

Every valley holds a secret name

Something older than every language knows

A door hidden in the shape of a tree

Sworn to never wake from what it sees

The wind howls old before it's born

Chasing shadows that have already gone

No echo ever answers back

Just silence where the signal would come through

Pre-Chorus

Who was left behind when the old gods died?

Who still remembers the sound of a thousand skies?

Feel it building in my chest tonight

It's older than every fight

Chorus / Drop

When the northwind breaks, we ride the wave

We were built to face the world we've never saved

Iron teeth and ancient fire

Nothing left but something higher

This is how the winter becomes our name

Rise with the frost on your back

Every silence has a sound coming up from the crack

North of everything that ever was

We carry what the mountains are saying still

It's loud inside us, soft outside

The whole world is waiting for it to collide

So let go now and see if you can fall

When the northwind breaks, we take the fall

Verse 2

Mantle made of every voice that never spoke

Frost line splits where the old ones woke

Every name the forest learned to keep

Is written in the shape the current keeps

The tree still hums beneath my feet

I can feel it moving through the street

It's the language older than a single breath

Before the light, before the death

We were never meant for this small earth

Something far beyond us gave us birth

Pre-Chorus

Who was left behind when the old gods died?

Who still remembers the sound of a thousand skies?

Feel it building in my chest tonight

It's older than every fight

Chorus / Drop

When the northwind breaks, we ride the wave

We were built to face the world we've never saved

Iron teeth and ancient fire

Nothing left but something higher

This is how the winter becomes our name

Rise with the frost on your back

Every silence has a sound coming up from the crack

North of everything that ever was

We carry what the mountains are saying still

It's loud inside us, soft outside

The whole world is waiting for it to collide

So let go now and see if you can fall

When the northwind breaks, we take the fall

Bridge

No echo yet, but I can feel its rise

Under every snowbank where the frozen lights have been and gone

This land remembers what was never learned

I'm built for something older than my name

Not a hero's oath or any creed

Just the sound that moves through empty streets

Before it disappears behind the wall of fear again

Chorus / Drop 2

When the northwind breaks, we ride the wave

We were built to face the world we've never saved

Iron teeth and ancient fire

Nothing left but something higher

This is how the winter becomes our name

Rise with the frost on your back

Every silence has a sound coming up from the crack

North of everything that ever was

We carry what the mountains are saying still