*** Nordic Discord Challenge, Throwback Thursdays. Genre: Nordic Folk, Theme: Strength. Inspired by Winston Churchill’s famous speech at Harrow’s School on the 29th of October 1941. A song about showing strength and resisting destructive forces in our world. *** [Intro – wind drone, frost hum, heartbeat distant] (yooi-haa… hei-yaah… haa-loi-yooh…) (hei-yooi-ah… haa-yah-loh…) (yooi-eh-yah… haai-yooh-loh…) [Verse 1 – close-mic, soft foot-drum] Never give in Never… never Not to noise nor to fear when the world grows dim never give in [Chorus 1 – bowed strings shimmer, gentle pulse] Stand firm, my friend when truth feels outnumber’d Hold your line let thunder land in your hand Courage ain’t louder it’s the quiet that withstands [Verse 2 – low glitch hum, breath trembling] Yield only to honour yield only to sense never to despair never… no, never again [Bridge – percussion rising, voices in half-echo] Hope is thy weapon sharpen it, sharpen it every day every day through frost and pain through frost and pain [Hook – full ensemble jojk, storm building, each line shifting tone] (yooi-haa-loh… hei-yaah-yah…) (haa-yooi-loh… hei-eh-yaa-loh…) (yooi-yah-leh… haa-yooh-ah-leh…) (hei-loi-yooh… yooi-eh-yaa…) [Chorus 2 – stripped first half, wide second half] When the crowd forgets what it stands for keep standing anyway when the cynics laugh be kind anyway anyway… anyway… [Outro – drone returning, whisper fading] Hold your nerve hold your heart hold your humanity Never give in Never give in Never [Final Hook – fading, half-remembered echoes in the wind] (yooi-ah-leh… haa-yooh-loh…) (hei-yah-loh… yooi-eh-ah…) (yooi-hah-yah… haa-loh-eh…) [Drone dissolves into frost and silence]
