[Intro]
Storm in my chest
Crowd like a cresting wave
Hands to the sky
Call out the ancient name (hey!)
[Verse 1]
Wolf on my tongue
Gold on my teeth
Odin in my head
Runes in the beat
Mead in the cup
Frost on my lip
Riding on the rim
Of a sinking ship
See the sparks?
That’s the price I pay
Every kiss of chaos
Leaves a scar in the day
[Pre-Chorus]
I feel the hammer in my pulse
Chain on my heart
About to snap
You want a god?
I got a god in this track (yeah)
[Chorus]
Ride the lightning
Let it strike us twice
Pray to thunder
Pay with paradise
If we burn
Then we burn in style
Valhalla in the strobe for a little while
Ride the lightning
Let the sky collapse
Kiss the storm and fade into the black
If we fall
Then we fall in sync
Ragnarök on the floor when we clink (drink)
[Build]
Skål to the sin
Skål to the sin
Every saint got a shadow within (woah)
Breathe in the dark
Breathe in the dark
Waiting for the world to—
[Drop]
[Beat cuts to silence]
—spark
Ride the lightning (ride, ride)
Ride the lightning (ride, ride)
[Verse 2]
Snake in the glass
Coils in my veins
I’m the quiet calm
Just before it rains
You want the axe
Or the tender touch?
Either way
By the end
You won’t feel much
Longship body
Drifting in sweat
We’re a warband now
But we just met
[Pre-Chorus]
I feel the hammer in my pulse
Chain on my heart
About to snap
You want a god?
I got a god in this track (hey)
[Chorus]
Ride the lightning
Let it strike us twice
Pray to thunder
Pay with paradise
If we burn
Then we burn in style
Valhalla in the strobe for a little while
Ride the lightning
Let the sky collapse
Kiss the storm and fade into the black
If we fall
Then we fall in sync
Ragnarök on the floor when we clink (drink)
[Outro]
Last flash fading on your skin
Hel or heaven
Same thing in the end
When the dawn asks where you’ve been
Say you rode the lightning
And you’d do it all again