Odin's Wrath

Lyrics

[Intro]
Wind like a wolf through iron reeds,
A lone fiddle weeps under storm-black eaves.
Ravens wheel — three shadows on snow,
Blood-frost glitters where the quiet ones go.

[Verse 1]
I step from the thunder’s breathing mouth,
Smoke in my lungs, ash on my vow.
I drink the names the fallen left,
Salt of the earth on a wintered breath.
My hammer sleeps in a nest of sparks,
Coals in my palms, judgment in the dark.
I carry their silence across this field,
A cold-lit oath under broken shields.

[Pre-Chorus]
The sky inhales — I weigh your crimes,
On bone-born scales in the killing time.
Ravens whisper what steel can’t hide,
Their black eyes brim with the widows’ cries.

[Build]
Foot to ground, the drumline wakes,
Lightning counts the breaths I take.
Steel sings low, the storm aligns,
I draw the circle. I draw the line.

[Drop]
Odin’s wrath comes down.
I am the hand that falls without sound,
I am the verdict under the ground —
Odin’s wrath comes down.
Hammer to earth, and the fault-lines groan,
Storm in my chest, iron in my bones —
Odin’s wrath comes down.
Ravens above like a crown of night,
I break the dark with a blade of light —
Odin’s wrath comes down.

[Chant Break]
Hey! Odin’s wrath comes down!
Hey! Odin’s wrath comes down!
Stomp — hey! Blood-frost, storm-crown!
Hey! Odin’s wrath comes down!

[Verse 2]
I kneel by faces stilled in snow,
Blue lips, prayers that had no home.
I name them all beneath the gale,
Their mothers’ songs become my mail.
The roar of Valhalla far like a shore,
I hear them calling, “Make this war no more.”
So grief turns iron in my veined right hand,
A thunder-law for a faithless land.

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Raise the banner the ravens know,
Black on black where the cold winds go.
Lightning licks at the braided sky,
Mercy is gone — only truth won’t lie.

[Build 2]
Count the beats like iron nails,
Taiko hearts and hunting wails.
Gates of thunder, hinge and groan,
I step through fire — I claim the throne.

[Drop 2]
Odin’s wrath comes down.
I unmake walls that were built of lies,
Split storm-black heavens with judging light —
Odin’s wrath comes down.
Teeth of the wind and a choir of steel,
Kneel or scatter beneath my heel —
Odin’s wrath comes down.
Ash to ash under hammer and sky,
Your shadows break when the ravens cry —
Odin’s wrath comes down.

[Violin Solo]
[Instrumental Break — The solo violin laments over distant piano and low wind, a scar singing before the blade is raised again.]

[Breakdown]
Hush — the snow remembers heat,
A single drum like a widow’s heartbeat.
I place my ear to the wounded ground,
And hear the fallen gather round.

[Final Drop]
Odin’s wrath comes down.
I carve the law in the marrow of stone,
By storm and raven, by thunder alone —
Odin’s wrath comes down.
Hammer and lightning, judgment made flesh,
Blood-frost dissolves in the breath I press —
Odin’s wrath comes down.
Valhalla roars like a tide in my veins,
I crown the night with unbroken flames —
Odin’s wrath comes down.
Down — down — the storm is my crown,
Kneel to the truth as the old oaths sound —
Odin’s wrath comes down.

[Outro]
The wind exhales; the ravens ease,
The fiddle fades to a wintered breeze.
I lay my hammer on the ground like dawn —
The field goes quiet. I walk on.