Someday We’ll Die

[Verse 1]
My mother told me
“Someday we’ll die”
Wood smoke in her hair
War in her eyes
Old gods watching
From a rust-red sky
I was carving runes
On a shield by her side
Blood on the doorstep
Steel by the bed
We don’t fear ghosts
We drink with the dead
If the sea wants me
Let the waves rise high
I was born from a scream
I’ll go out in a cry
[Pre-Chorus]
So I sharpen my name
On the edge of the blade
Every scar on my skin
Is a prayer that I’ve prayed
[Chorus]
(My mother told me, someday we’ll die)
So I live like the world is burning
Raise that horn to the storm-torn sky
Every breath is a raid returning
If the end comes quick, let the ravens fly
I will laugh while the heavens fracture
(My mother told me, someday we’ll die)
But we choose what we leave in the rapture
[Verse 2]
Rap in the longhouse
Roar in the hall
Saga in my throat
Chains on the wall
Ash in my lungs
Salt in my veins
March through the mud
Sing through the pain
I don’t need mercy
I need the fight
Let the fjord go black
I’ll light the night
Bones in the river
Boats in a line
If death is a feast
Then the first seat’s mine (hey!)
[Pre-Chorus]
So I carve each loss
In the grain of the oar
Every cut on my heart
Is a crack in the door
[Chorus]
(My mother told me, someday we’ll die)
So I live like the world is burning
Raise that horn to the storm-torn sky
Every breath is a raid returning
If the end comes quick, let the ravens fly
I will laugh while the heavens fracture
(My mother told me, someday we’ll die)
But we choose what we leave in the rapture
[Bridge]
[Drop to distant drums and low chant]
We are the children
Of fire and frost
We don’t fear dying
We only fear lost
Names in the water
Fade in the foam
But I’ll split the dark
To drag mine home (woah)
[Chorus]
(My mother told me, someday we’ll die)
So I live like the world is burning
Raise that horn to the storm-torn sky
Every breath is a raid returning
If the end comes quick, let the ravens fly
I will laugh while the heavens fracture
(My mother told me, someday we’ll die)
But we choose what we leave in the rapture

rap, Hybrid Viking metal / deathcore with rap verses and male vocals: downtuned galloping guitars locking to double-kick blasts, tremolo-picked minor melodies, and tectonic breakdowns. Verses spit rhythmic, percussive rap atop chugging riffs; pre-chorus climbs with dissonant chords and gang shouts; chorus explodes into harsh screams over half-time stomp. Mid-song drop to eerie clean choir and distant toms before final full-speed onslaught., viking metal, death metal, brutal deathcore, screamo