[Verse 1] I walk the broken hall Where moss eats the stone Names carved in the walls Still bone-deep, still known Ash in the mortar line Rain in the cracks I hear old footsteps Come crawling back Rune by rune On the ruin face Cold old fire In a dead king’s place [Pre-Chorus] Turn the key In the jaw of night Read the dark Till it bites the light Hands on the stone Feel it wake Something old Starts to shake [Chorus] Rune, rune, run it back Longships cut through black Rune, rune, rise again Old bones call my name Rune, rune, run it back Longships cut through black Stone to smoke And sea to flame Old bones call my name [Verse 2] Boards on the shore Bleached white, split wide A wolf on the prow And a storm inside Iron on the mast Tar in the seam Blood in the wind Like a half-remembered dream I trace the marks With a winter thumb The dead don’t sleep They just hum and drum [Pre-Chorus] Turn the key In the jaw of night Read the dark Till it bites the light Hands on the stone Feel it wake Something old Starts to shake [Chorus] Rune, rune, run it back Longships cut through black Rune, rune, rise again Old bones call my name Rune, rune, run it back Longships cut through black Stone to smoke And sea to flame Old bones call my name [Bridge] Below the floor There’s a buried sound A throne gone cold In the underground I split the dusk With a word of fire Then the whole sky bends Like a bent iron wire [Breakdown] Hah Hah Stone speak Sea seek Hah Hah Black wake Rune beat [Chorus] Rune, rune, run it back Longships cut through black Rune, rune, rise again Old bones call my name Rune, rune, run it back Longships cut through black Stone to smoke And sea to flame Old bones call my name [Outro] I leave with the dusk On my sleeve, on my breath The ruins stay lit Like they’re cheating death Rune by rune Till the night grows thin Longships fade out But they come again
