Ridge of Broken Bones (Version 2)

Verse

Frostbite carved the mountain in black light

Two hundred shadows on a ridge so tight.

I traded my name for the wind I own now

Cold doesn’t ask you — it just pulls you down.

Iron in the lungs and the weight of the fall

Every step is heavier than they all.

Helgi fell silent where the wolves had been called

Now I am the one that carries this all.

Ridge splits under my heels, still no sound

Just the breath running out into nothing ground.

Gut tells me there’s a drop at the end of this trail

That’s why I keep walking and never fail.

Every man who fell in this valley below

Is the reason I rise up instead of being gone.

Nothing to lose but the body, nothing to hold

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear it breaking — bones turning into fire?

Something in me finally wants no desire.

Let go of the name that was never mine to keep

Riding the ridge where the silence starts to creep

Chorus

I walk on the ridge of broken bones tonight

Nothing left but ice and the light — take flight.

Every step is louder than all my fears now

This is the strength in a man who’s lost his name, no one.

Cold won’t stop me — I’m made from what it froze

Riding the ridge where nothing else goes

Verse 2

Snowdrift remembers every voice that was here

Frost on my beard like a flag that still appears.

Every tree is a tower, every shadow an army dead

Nothing alive up this high but I don’t feel weak.

I dug through the frozen bodies to find what was left of gold

Not treasure — the proof of how much they bled and told.

Norsemen never surrendered, they just turned into stone

This ridge keeps that fire burning in every bone.

Baldur fell silent when he walked into the trap

He chose his own silence, I chose mine to keep.

I don’t need a shield wall — I built this by my will

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear it breaking — bones turning into fire?

Something in me finally wants no desire.

Let go of the name that was never mine to keep

Riding the ridge where the silence starts to creep

Chorus

I walk on the ridge of broken bones tonight

Nothing left but ice and the light — take flight.

Every step is louder than all my fears now

This is the strength in a man who’s lost his name, no one.

Cold won’t stop me — I’m made from what it froze

Riding the ridge where nothing else goes

Bridge

I never fought for a flag or a creed I believed in

I fought to see how far this cold could reach before giving up.

Every man who stood down when the winter came calling

Lives forever buried under this frost and still falling.

But not me. Not tonight. No chains left, no walls — just the wind

This is the silence that sets a man free from his mind

Chorus

I walk on the ridge of broken bones tonight

Nothing left but ice and the light — take flight.

Every step is louder than all my fears now

This is the strength in a man who’s lost his name, no one.

Cold won’t stop me — I’m made from what it froze

Riding the ridge where nothing else goes