Baldr's Dream (Version 2)

Intro

(Baldr! Baldr!)

I saw it coming — every dream confirmed it...

(Hu-ha!) The whole world swore — one thing permitted —

Loki found the loophole — Höðr transmitted —

(Baldr!) The brightest god walked into the dark admitted...

Verse 1

My dreams came first — three nights running the same road,

Death at the end — mistletoe — the payload.

Frigg rose before dawn and began to unload —

Every stone, every plant, every creature's full code.

Fire swore it, water swore it, every iron and stone —

Every sickness, every serpent — all the oak and the bone.

I stood in the ring while they tested what she'd sewn —

Every spear they threw at me fell harmless and alone.

The gods laughed — made a game of it — threw harder —

Nothing touched me — I was bright like I was armor.

Loki watched from the edge — something in the quarter

Of his eye that wasn't laughter — something starker.

He found the one thing Frigg thought too young to matter —

Mistletoe on the oak-branch — soft — the flatter

Of an afterthought — he shaped it — brought it after —

Guided Höðr's blind throw — heard the silence shatter.

Pre-Chorus

I hit the ground and even Hel went quiet for the moment (the moment)

Every god above me — grief — no one could condone it.

Odin bent and whispered something — secret — don't own it —

Even dying I could feel the weight — he alone known it. (uh!)

Chorus

I dreamed the death before the mistletoe was thrown (was thrown!)

Most beloved — most protected — died alone (died alone!)

Hel's half-dark and half-living — that's my throne (that's my throne!)

Baldr waits beneath the worlds — til the green has grown! (Hu-ha!)

Verse 2

Hermóðr rode Sleipnir nine nights through the darkness falling —

Valleys so deep the eye stopped its recording.

Came to Hel's gate — leapt the bridge without calling —

Found me seated in the mead-hall — honored, not appalling.

Hel listened — said: if all things weep for Baldr —

Every living thing in grief — not one colder —

Then I'll release him — let the bright god smolder

Back into the world — go ask the living — tell the holder.

They asked every stone, every beast, every river —

Everything wept — warm things all deliver.

One giantess alone sat dry — the shiver

Of Loki in disguise — that's what he gave her.

Þökk — one dry eye — and the door sealed on me.

I watched Hermóðr's back disappear — no condemnation.

Loki chose the darkness so I'd keep my station —

I understood it even then — patient resignation.

Pre-Chorus

I dreamed the death before the mistletoe was thrown (the moment)

Every god above me — grief — no one could condone it.

Odin bent and whispered something — secret — don't own it —

Even dying I could feel the weight — he alone known it. (uh!)

Chorus

I dreamed the death before the mistletoe was thrown (was thrown!)

Most beloved — most protected — died alone (died alone!)

Hel's half-dark and half-living — that's my throne (that's my throne!)

Baldr waits beneath the worlds — til the green has grown! (Hu-ha!)

Bridge

You want to know what it's like inside the waiting?

(what is it like?)

Not the dark — the dark is just the casing.

(not the dark...)

Not the cold — the cold is just the spacing.

(not the cold...)

It's knowing what is coming and embracing.

I heard Gjallarhorn — it reached me even under —

Heard Surtr's fire-sword split the sky asunder —

(heard the fire...)

Heard Fenrir's chain snap loose like winter thunder —

(heard the chain...)

Felt the nine worlds shake and then go under.

Then the water pulled back slow — and the earth came —

(the earth came...)

Green — unburned — answering to a new name.

(new name...)

And Hel's gate opened — no key — no claiming —

(gate opened...)

The brightest thing in all nine worlds stopped waiting.

I walked out first —

(walked out first...)

Into a world that had no grave to give me.

(Skál to the light! Skál — death couldn't keep thee!)

(Baldr returns — the new green world comes freely!)

Drop — Instrumental

Chorus

I dreamed the death before the mistletoe was thrown (was thrown!)

Most beloved — most protected — died alone (died alone!)

Hel's half-dark and half-living — that's my throne (that's my throne!)

Baldr waits beneath the worlds — til the green has grown! (Hu-ha!)

Outro

(Baldr! Baldr!)

The new sun climbs...

(Hu-ha!)

I walked out of Hel

into the green.

The brightest god

was always coming back.

(The dark was just the waiting.)