Pillar of the North II (Version 2)

Verse

Ivar's cold on the Thames, I'm on the Spanish shore (Spanish shore)

Where the pillars used to stand now there are only rocks, no more (rocks, no more)

Every shield a Frank threw in England I've taken for my own (taken for my own)

Hvítserkr at the tiller as we round Gibraltar's bend (Gibraltar's bend)

Ubba on the prow shouting the Norns that don't intend (Norns that don't intend)

The Strait runs deep with Roman blood — Sigurðr in my veins (Sigurðr in my veins)

Luna gates open wide now for the sons of Ragnar's blade (Ragnar's blade)

I'm not there to raid but something I've long been paid (paid)

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it rise up, down the neck where your brother fell (fell)?

Do you hear the drum on the dark horizon?

Your people at the water's edge — what do they know of this spell?

Of taking the world by its roots and shaking out every shell?

Chorus

Pillar of the North, iron in my veins (iron in my veins)

Every coast that ran with gold is now a Viking stain (Viking stain)

Ivar's cold at home — I'm burning at the gate (burning at the gate)

Sixty-two ships past Gibraltar's stone — there's no going back to that

Verse

Fáfnir marked my left eye as a boy, this is what he saw (saw) -

Hastein in the south with Luna's own ring on his chest (Luna's own ring)

I'm taking it from him now, one by one, one by one — no nest

The Frankish kings will tell you that I stole their summer home (stole their summer home)

But we're not thieves — this is where the blood that runs through every bone (bone) of us wants to roam

Nowhere left for England's shields to stand against this storm (storm)

My mother Áslaug waited by the fjord — now she's singing with them all at once (once)

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it rise up, down the neck where your brother fell (fell)?

Do you hear the drum on the dark horizon?

Your people at the water's edge — what do they know of this spell?

Of taking the world by its roots and shaking out every shell?

Chorus

Pillar of the North, iron in my veins (iron in my veins)

Every coast that ran with gold is now a Viking stain (Viking stain)

Ivar's cold at home — I'm burning at the gate (burning at the gate)

Sixty-two ships past Gibraltar's stone — there's no going back to that

Bridge

Hvitserkr's mark on my right hand, this is what it means

Not raid or pillage but to break the chain that binds (binds) our world apart and keep the fire where you first found it burning

The north doesn't send me — I'm taking all that gold back through the pillars (gold) and into the dark

This isn't war, this is just us opening up a road where none was (none was)

Follow it till you find yourself in your own home, on land that's always been our own (been our own)

Outro

Pillar of the North — we'll never be stopped now (stopped now)...

The world will know our name long after this is just a story that got told...