Rimegold Rivalry (Version 2)

Verse

Every morning I wake up with the same four walls

Same old door frame, but this winter's different thrall.

Hear the wind hit like a fist through the broken window glass —

Something in the marrow says it's time to take my place.

Old men talking like the frost don't change the facts —

Say the gods forgot us, say our luck runs back —

I'm not waiting on the wind — I go before the thaw —

Build my own ashlar before the frost gives way.

Watched three summers bleed their color out of stone

Still I never built a house that wasn't my own.

Saw men talk to walls like they were the only one

Never saw a wall say back what it had done.

I'm not waiting on the gods — I make the cold behave

Carve my own name in every log before I leave.

Pre-Chorus

Something's shifting underfoot — feel the ice let go —

Feel the breath behind me start to turn to smoke —

Chorus

I'm the rimegold standing where the frost won't come —

Every hand that touches my doorframe turns to bone —

I don't pray for sunbreak, I just hold what's mine own —

Ice is not a promise, fire is my throne.

Hold it close — let it burn before it goes —

Verse

Every morning I wake up with the same four walls

Same old door frame, but this winter's different thrall.

Hear the wind hit like a fist through the broken window glass —

Something in the marrow says it's time to take my place.

Old men talking like the frost don't change the facts —

Say the gods forgot us, say our luck runs back —

I'm not waiting on the wind — I go before the thaw —

Build my own ashlar before the frost gives way.

Watched three summers bleed their color out of stone

Still I never built a house that wasn't my own.

Saw men talk to walls like they were the only one

Never saw a wall say back what it had done.

I'm not waiting on the gods — I make the cold behave

Carve my own name in every log before I leave.

Pre-Chorus

Something's shifting underfoot — feel the ice let go —

Feel the breath behind me start to turn to smoke —

Chorus

I'm the rimegold standing where the frost won't come —

Every hand that touches my doorframe turns to bone —

I don't pray for sunbreak, I just hold what's mine own —

Ice is not a promise, fire is my throne.

Hold it close — let it burn before it goes —

Bridge

No priest came down the hall — no horn to call me back —

Just the weight of everything that still won't fall —

I'm not asking for the gift — I'm building what they lack —

Frost forgets its edges on a stone that's not afraid —

This is my own Valhalla, built with every nail —

Not the battle line — it's the wall that keeps us all.

Outro

I still stand here — rimegold and ashlar —

Nothing cold enough to say I was never there