[Verse 1]
I woke on black stone
With salt in my beard
Sea ice on my cloak
And the wolf at my ear
You hear that cold horn
It calls from the ridge
I take what the storm gives
And carry the bridge
[Pre-Chorus]
The sky leans low
The ash turns white
Hold your ground
Hold it tight
The north wind knows
My name, my name
[Chorus]
North wind, take me
North wind, break me
I stand in the snow
I stand, I stand
North wind, take me
North wind, shape me
(Call my name)
I do not bend
[Verse 2]
Boots in the gravel
Steel on my back
Old blood in the pine
And the trail running black
I speak to the dark
It answers in frost
One step for the fallen
No time to be lost
[Pre-Chorus]
The sky leans low
The ash turns white
Hold your ground
Hold it tight
The north wind knows
My name, my name
[Chorus]
North wind, take me
North wind, break me
I stand in the snow
I stand, I stand
North wind, take me
North wind, shape me
(Call my name)
I do not bend
[Bridge]
[Half-time, voice and drum]
If I fall
Let the ice remember
If I rise
Let the cliffs remember
I was here
I was here
When the cold came down
[Final Chorus]
North wind, take me
North wind, break me
I stand in the snow
I stand, I stand
North wind, take me
North wind, shape me
(Call my name)
I do not bend
North wind, take me
North wind, make me
(One more cry)
A stone in the storm