Blood and Oaths

[Verse 1]
Cold field
Red dawn
Ravens stitching sky to ground
Iron in my hands again
Ash on every sound
Brother
Are you watching?
Old gods in your eyes
I wear the scars you left me
Like armor in disguise
[Chorus]
Blood and oaths
That’s all I own
Names of the fallen
Carved into bone
If I must burn
To bring them home
Let the fire learn my soul
Blood and oaths
[Verse 2]
Smoke climbs
Slow prayer
Women tie the twine of fate
Children chew on stories
Of loves the war will break
Father
You were mercy
I am winter’s son
Soft once
Then the river froze
Now steel is all I trust
[Chorus]
Blood and oaths
That’s all I own
Names of the fallen
Carved into bone
If I must burn
To bring them home
Let the fire learn my soul
Blood and oaths
[Bridge]
[Drums rise; voices low
Chanting]
I speak to the soil
It remembers every step
I speak to the stones
They remember every death
I speak to the sea
“Will you carry me?” (hey!)
It answers with a wave
And a promise for the brave
[Chorus]
Blood and oaths
That’s all I own
Names of the fallen
Carved into bone
If I must burn
To bring them home
Let the fire learn my soul
Blood and oaths
(blood and oaths)

Cinematic dark folk with male vocals; low war drum pulse, bowed strings, and deep drones. Verse carried by solo voice and sparse frame drum, chorus swells with layered choirs, tagelharpa and fiddle harmonies, plus distant horn calls. Bridge drops to near-chant over a single drum, then final chorus roars back with thunderous toms and soaring vocal stacks.