Intro
(Mjölnir! Mjölnir!)
The serpent released — the ocean is rising...
(Hu-ha!) He knew since the cradle, no point in disguising —
Nine steps, then the venom, then silence —
(Mjölnir!) The Thunderer walked into it smiling...
Verse 1
Red beard in the storm-front, knuckles iron-white,
Járngreipr laced tight for a century of fights.
I split Hrungnir's skull with the flint still mid-flight,
Left Útgarða-Loki pale and shaking all night.
Megingjörð cinched double — strength on top of strength,
Bilskirnir at my back for the breadth of its length.
Five hundred forty rooms full of the men that I've kept —
Every farmer's prayer from Midgard — I answered each breath.
I ain't Odin with the plotting or the one-eye wisdom cold,
I don't need a high-seat throne or a prophecy told.
I'm the thunder over cropland, hammer-sworn to the hold —
Tuesday named after nothing but the stories I've rolled.
Pre-Chorus
Feel the seal-road split from the equator to the pole (to the pole)
Jörmungandr loose — the tidal surge swallows the shoal.
The serpent circled Midgard for a thousand years whole —
Now the coils unwind and the world floods the bowl. (uh!)
Chorus
Nine steps is all I get — I spend 'em well (spend 'em well!)
Mjölnir meets the serpent in the thunder-swell (thunder-swell!)
Poison in my bloodstream — I can't stop to tell (can't stop to tell!)
The Thunderer walks forward — nine steps into Hel! (Hu-ha!)
Verse 2
First throw cracks the jaw — hear the ocean-walls scream,
Second throw mid-coil — split the dark at the seam.
Third blow through the skull where the venom glands gleam,
Fourth — the whole whale-road rises up in a steam.
But the death-breath comes fast — eitr black in the lung,
Taste the poison thick on the back of the tongue.
Every giant in Jötunheimr hearing Mjölnir rung —
Even dying gods finish what they've already sung.
Mother Jörð beneath me — feel her shudder and crack,
The serpent coiling loose means the world won't come back.
I was never built for the long play or the trap —
Just the short brutal answer and the thunder's crack.
Pre-Chorus
Feel the seal-road split from the equator to the pole (to the pole)
Jörmungandr loose — the tidal surge swallows the shoal.
The serpent circled Midgard for a thousand years whole —
Now the coils unwind and the world floods the bowl. (uh!)
Chorus
Nine steps is all I get — I spend 'em well (spend 'em well!)
Mjölnir meets the serpent in the thunder-swell (thunder-swell!)
Poison in my bloodstream — I can't stop to tell (can't stop to tell!)
The Thunderer walks forward — nine steps into Hel! (Hu-ha!)
Bridge
Step one — lungs already black with the brine
(keep walking)
Step two — Mjölnir pulling forward in line
(keep walking)
Step three — Jörð trembling under the spine
(keep walking)
Step four — the farmers in their fields one last time
(keep walking)
Step five — Ásgarðr burning behind
(keep walking)
Step six — the storm goes permanently blind
(keep walking)
Step seven — Odin falling to the wolf
(keep walking)
Step eight — the stars going cold in the gulf
(keep walking)
Step nine —
(Skál to the Thunderer! Skál — he made it count!)
(Nine steps between the lightning and the final drought!)
Drop — Instrumental
Chorus
Nine steps is all I get — I spend 'em well (spend 'em well!)
Mjölnir meets the serpent in the thunder-swell (thunder-swell!)
Poison in my bloodstream — I can't stop to tell (can't stop to tell!)
The Thunderer walks forward — nine steps into Hel! (Hu-ha!)
Outro
(Mjölnir! Mjölnir!)
The thunder went quiet...
(Hu-ha!)
But the hammer still rings.
Nine steps.
That's all anything needs.
(Skál.)
