[Verse 1] Born in the frost under a bleeding sky Raised for the shield before we learn to cry Axes are heavy, but the winters are long Our youth is buried in a battle song We dreamed of the fjords, of peace in the sun But the war horn blows and the race is won Too short is the thread that the norns have spun Before the dawn of life the dark has begun No time for love, no time to grow old Only the iron and their biting cold A warrior's fate is a stolen breath Driven to Valhalla, bleeding to death [Verse 2] I wanted to build, to watch the crops rise To look at the sea through peaceful eyes But the child demands blood, the longships must sail And my youth is lost in an iron hail Twenty winters lived, a century of pain Another nameless corpse in the northern rain Too short is the thread that the norns have spun Before the dawn of life the dark has begun No time for love, no time to grow old Only the iron and their biting cold A warrior's fate is a stolen breath Driven to Valhalla, bleeding to death [Chorus] The hall of this slain, is it worth the price? Leaving our dreams on this altar of ice We've cut our lives short for a singer's ride Cause the gods, cause this bleeding tomb The sun slips away, the hours turn to grey Too soon, too soon
