The Scar-Lipped Trickster

Intro

(Scar-lip! Scar-lip!)

They sewed my mouth shut — still I spoke...

(Hu-ha!) Bound in the dark beneath the rock

Venom on my face — I don't stop.

(Scar-lip!) The trickster's the last lock they forgot...

Verse 1

I walked into Ásgarðr and they called me a brother,

Ate at their tables, learned each god from the other.

Shapeshifted to a fly in the halls of the dwarves,

Stole fire, gifted chaos — kept the credit, of course.

Cut the gold from Sif's head just to watch the room tilt,

Then I brokered the replacement — no remorse, no guilt.

They laughed at the table — I was laughing the hardest,

The snake in the garden is the one who goes farthest.

Pre-Chorus

I fathered the wolf that will swallow the sun (the sun!)

Fathered the serpent circling the world till it's done.

Hel sits the cold throne — yeah, that's my youngest one —

The trickster stacked the whole board before the game was begun. (uh!)

Chorus

I'm the lie in the saga, the crack in the wall (crack in the wall!)

I'm the hand that set the fire that will swallow them all (swallow them all!)

They bound me with entrails — that was nobody's call (nobody's call!)

Scar-lip rises when the last chain falls! (Hu-ha!)

Verse 2

I borrowed a mare's shape on a mountain in heat,

Foaled eight legs for the Allfather — call it a feat.

He rides on my offspring across every defeat,

The joke's on the gods — I run deep in their fleet.

Blind Höðr threw the mistletoe — whose hand did he trust?

Baldur hit the ground and the whole sky turned to rust.

They wept in their gold halls, they wept in the dust —

I laughed in the venom 'cause the ending was just.

Pre-Chorus

I fathered the wolf that will swallow the sun (the sun!)

Fathered the serpent circling the world till it's done.

Hel sits the cold throne — yeah, that's my youngest one —

The trickster stacked the whole board before the game was begun. (uh!)

Chorus

I'm the lie in the saga, the crack in the wall (crack in the wall!)

I'm the hand that set the fire that will swallow them all (swallow them all!)

They bound me with entrails — that was nobody's call (nobody's call!)

Scar-lip rises when the last chain falls! (Hu-ha!)

Bridge

Sigyn holds the bowl above my face —

(faithful...)

Venom hits the stone and shakes the place —

(earthquake...)

Every tremor that you feel in Midgard's crust?

(that's me...)

That's the scar-lipped god adjusting to the rust.

Naglfar waits — a ship of dead men's nails,

Every fingernail they forgot to cut sets sail.

When the cord snaps and I walk into the grey —

(it was always gonna end this way.)

I don't rage against the Norns — I built the day.

(Skál to the chaos! Skál to the flame!)

(The trickster always wins — they just forgot my name!)

Drop — Instrumental

Chorus

I'm the lie in the saga, the crack in the wall (crack in the wall!)

I'm the hand that set the fire that will swallow them all (swallow them all!)

They bound me with entrails — that was nobody's call (nobody's call!)

Scar-lip rises when the last chain falls! (Hu-ha!)

Outro

(Scar-lip! Scar-lip!)

The chain's getting thin...

(Hu-ha!)

Ragnarök — let it begin.

The trickster grins.