Steel Runes Never Fade

Verse

Carved into the bark before the frost could climb

Your name in the grain, a line out of time

Ashes on the water where the longship burned

Every fire we lit was a lesson learned

Snow is falling soft on the stones we stacked

Marking out the path so we'd find our way back

Cold hands, warm blood, the drums start low

This is how the old ones taught us to go

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the ice begin to crack

Every ending drawing new ones back

Something in the dark is turning gold

Chorus

Steel runes never fade

Carved in the bones of the choice that we made

Say goodbye but the fire stays lit

Steel runes never fade, never quit

Wolves at the edge of the fading light

Guide us on through the endless night

Every mark that the blade has made

Steel runes never fade

Verse

Ravens circle where the longhouse used to stand

Ash in my palm, iron ring on my hand

You walked north where the mountains turn to stone

Left me your voice in the wind alone

Bonfire smoke writes your name in the sky

Some things end but they never die

Runestones humming beneath the frost

Nothing given is ever truly lost

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the ice begin to crack

Every ending drawing new ones back

Something in the dark is turning gold

Chorus

Steel runes never fade

Carved in the bones of the choice that we made

Say goodbye but the fire stays lit

Steel runes never fade, never quit

Wolves at the edge of the fading light

Guide us on through the endless night

Every mark that the blade has made

Steel runes never fade

Bridge

I let you go where the northern lights bend

Not as a loss, but a door, not an end

The forge still glows where we carved out our vow

Somewhere you're standing beneath it now

The ash remembers, the iron holds true

Every goodbye is a bridge back to you

Chorus

Steel runes never fade

Carved in the bones of the choice that we made

Say goodbye but the fire stays lit

Steel runes never fade, never quit

Wolves at the edge of the fading light

Guide us on through the endless night

Every mark that the blade has made

Steel runes never fade