[Verse 1]
Wet rope
Salt in the beard
Long keel biting the gray
Cold steel
Sleep in the fjord
Oars drag dawn our way
Red shore
Smoke in the rafters
Old gods tasting the flame
Harsh laugh
Hand on the haft
We carve our place in their names
[Chorus]
Raise your horns to the iron sky (hey!)
Let the crows take what’s left of my eyes
If I fall
Let the battle decide
Break my bones on the shield wall
Brothers
We ride
We ride
For Valhalla
[Verse 2]
Black sail
Storm on the tongue
Village wakes to the roar
Door breaks
Fire in the thatch
We drink their courage and more
Old king
Crying to his saints
My axe answers his prayer
Gold rings
Clatter in the mud
Only glory goes up from here
[Chorus]
Raise your horns to the iron sky (hey!)
Let the crows take what’s left of my eyes
If I fall
Let the battle decide
Break my bones on the shield wall
Brothers
We ride
We ride
For Valhalla
[Bridge]
If I die with my face to the flame
If my blood writes the edge of your name
Let me wake where the fathers roar
Feast and fight forevermore (forevermore)
[Chorus]
Raise your horns to the iron sky (hey!)
Let the crows take what’s left of my eyes
If I fall
Let the battle decide
Break my bones on the shield wall
Brothers
We ride
We ride
We ride
We ride
For Valhalla