North Wind, No Surrender
Under white hills,
the old road bends No fire
burns where the black pine ends
Keep your name behind your teeth
Something waits beneath the sleep
I move where the frozen river
narrows
Boomarks vanish under falling snow
One pale moon caught in the
fir branches
One iron bell from a house
below
You said the north would make
me honest
It took my warmth and left
the bone
Now every breath is counted silence
Now every door feels like a
throne
Hear that low call beyond the
ridge Feel the cold rise under
the bridge Do not turn when
the branches bow The dark knows
where you're standing now
North wind, take the valley
Black sky, pull me under
Old blood beat in the timber
Cold hands wake the thunder
North wind, no surrender
White ground, red ember
Say my name,
say it slowly
Let the whole dead forest know
me The raven circles over empty
furrows
A silver knife is buried in
the snow
I keep three runes inside my
They warm whenever strangers come close
No crown, no cross,
no witness waiting
Just stone and frost beneath my
heel
If I go down beyond the
tree line The mountain keeps what
it can feel
Hear that low call beyond the
ridge Feel the cold rise under
the bridge Do not turn when
the branches bow The dark knows
where you're standing now
North wind, take the valley
Black sky, pull me under
Old blood beat in the timber
Cold hands wake the thunder
North wind, no surrender
White ground, red ember
Say my name,
say it slowly
Let the whole dead forest know
me
When the long night folds its
wings When the buried iron sings
I will stand where the pines
divide
With the winter at my side
North wind, take the valley
Black sky, pull me under
Old blood beat in the timber
Cold hands wake the thunder
North wind, no surrender
White ground, red ember
Say my name,
say it slowly
Let the whole dead forest know
me
Under white hills,
the old road bends No fire
burns where the black pine ends