[Verse]
Half-face marble
Half-face rot and cinder
Pale hand stroking
Black frost on my tongue
I kneel laughing
Bone-ash in my splintered beard
Her eyes two wells
Bottomless
Unsung
Undone
[Chorus]
Hel
Cold bride
Split beauty
Split grave
Hel
Cold bride
My terror I gave
Hel
Cold bride
Sweet blade in the dark
Hel
Cold bride
Brand your rune in my heart
[Verse 2]
Snowfall whispers
Maggots dance beneath
She walks barefoot
Over shields
Over me
One cheek blossom
Other cheek devoured
Her smile dripping
Quiet throne of disease
[Prechorus]
Do you hear it
That soft iron drum?
Every heartbeat marching where you come
[Chorus]
Hel
Cold bride
Split beauty
Split grave
Hel
Cold bride
My terror I gave
Hel
Cold bride
Sweet blade in the dark
Hel
Cold bride
Brand your rune in my heart
[Bridge]
I drank battle
Drank sunset
Drank screams
Drank rust
Steel in my lungs
Black snow in my veins
Blessed dust
She brushed my brow
Half-comfort
Half-plague
No release
“Come
Little wolf
” she whispered
“come die for my peace”