The Wake Beyond the Oars — Ember of Midgard

# The Wake Beyond the Oars **[Immediate Opening – Drums, Bass and Male Choir]** **Hey! Hey!** Drive the keel through the silver foam! **Hey! Hey!** Beyond the oars, we carve our home! **[Verse 1 – Male Vocal]** The harbor bells are fading fast, The ropes are loose, the die is cast. With salted shields and weathered hands, We chase the edge of unknown lands. The gulls wheel high above the mast, No man can bind us to the past. The morning wind fills every sail, While iron drums command the gale. **[Pre-Chorus]** Let the old shore disappear, There is nothing left to fear. Every wave and every scar Carries us to where we are! **[Chorus – Male Vocal and Energetic Men’s Choir]** Beyond the oars, beyond the sea, We sail for what we’re meant to be! Pull as one and hold the line, Your strength is yours and mine! Beyond the oars, the wide world calls, We will not bend, we will not fall! Raise your voice and face the foam— We build the road that leads us home! **[Verse 2 – Male Vocal]** The cliffs are gone behind the haze, We measure time in restless days. The cold bites deep, the timbers groan, But no one rows the dark alone. A distant flash across the deep, Awakes the gods from silent sleep. We bind the sail and grip the rail, Then laugh into the hammering hail. **[Pre-Chorus]** Let the blackened heavens roar, We have faced their kind before. Every brother, side by side, Is a fortress on the tide! **[Chorus – Male Vocal and Energetic Men’s Choir]** Beyond the oars, beyond the sea, We sail for what we’re meant to be! Pull as one and hold the line, Your strength is yours and mine! Beyond the oars, the wide world calls, We will not bend, we will not fall! Raise your voice and face the foam— We build the road that leads us home! **[Instrumental Break]** *Fast nyckelharpa melody over pounding drums and deep bass. Flutes answer the melodic guitars while horns sound above rhythmic acoustic strings. The men’s choir chants:* **Row! Row! Carry us on!** **Row! Row! Until the dark is gone!** **Ho! Ho! Shoulder to the sea!** **No chain beneath the sky can hold the free!** **[Bridge – Male Vocal]** Should the mast break, we will mend it. Should the sea take, we defend it. Should the daylight leave our eyes, We will steer by ancient skies. And when the final fog divides, A green coast waits beyond the tides. There we’ll raise our halls of stone And name the distant earth our own! **[Final Chorus – Full Choir]** Beyond the oars, beyond the sea, We found the place we’re meant to be! Pull as one and hold the line, Your strength is yours and mine! Beyond the oars, the new shore calls, We crossed the deep, we faced it all! Raise your voice across the foam— Wherever we stand, we make our home! **Beyond the oars!** **Beyond the sea!** **No chain beneath the sky can hold the free!** **[Outro – Male Vocal and Choir]** The drums still speak, the banners soar, Our wake remains beyond the oar. From distant sea to newborn shore— We sail as one forevermore! **Hey! Hey!** The wide world calls! **Hey! Hey!** We face it all!