Lantern Queen

Title: Lantern Queen on the Black Pines Verse 1 She came through the timber where the dead winds moan, Blue fire crown on a skull-white throne. Steel on her shoulder, night in her hand, Lantern full of ghosts from a blood-cold land. No prayer left burning, no church bell sound, Only iron footsteps shaking frozen ground. She don’t beg mercy, she don’t plead clean, She walks like judgment through the evergreen. Pre-Chorus Hear them rattle in the cage of glass, Every lost sinner she let not pass. Chorus Ride, Lantern Queen, through the black pine snow, Carry those names where the old gods go. Fire in your eyes, frost in your veins, Born of the silence and raised in chains. Ride, Lantern Queen, let the night bells ring, Wolf moon daughter with a reaper’s sting. Verse 2 Purple lightning curling off the edge of her blade, All debts remembered, none of them fade. She keeps no banner, she kneels to none, Moon-made tyrant and the dead’s last son. When the ravens scatter and the north wind turns, She knows every lie that a warm heart learns. From longhouse ruin to chapel stone, She drags what’s owed back home alone. Pre-Chorus Hear them whisper from the lantern bars, Names like scars and broken stars. Chorus Ride, Lantern Queen, through the black pine snow, Carry those names where the old gods go. Fire in your eyes, frost in your veins, Born of the silence and raised in chains. Ride, Lantern Queen, let the night bells ring, Wolf moon daughter with a reaper’s sting. Bridge No grave can hide you. No king can buy you. No dawn can blind you now. You came from winter, Made storms remember, And bent the dark somehow. Final Chorus Ride, Lantern Queen, through the black pine snow, Carry those names where the old gods go. Blue flame rising, iron rain, Queen of the lost and breaker of pain. Ride, Lantern Queen, till the sky caves in, Crown of the damned with a deathless grin.