[Intro]
Ash on the wind
Iron on tongue
Helms on the hillside
War drums rung
[Verse 1]
Braid in my hair
Blood on my shield
Teeth full of leather
Boots bite the field
Salt on the scars
Old oaths I keep
Crow on the cairn
Names I can’t speak
[Chorus]
Ravens over red fields
Screaming
Skulls in the mud like stone
Steel in my fist
Heart beating
We don’t go home
We don’t go home
Ravens over red fields
Screaming
Spears in the storm cold chrome
Die on our feet
Not kneeling
We don’t go home
We don’t go home
[Verse 2]
Longships like wolves
Gnaw at the shore
Horn on the hill
Calls for the war
Fire in the hall
Ash in our ale
Laugh at the gallows
Spit at the hail
[Chorus]
Ravens over red fields
Screaming
Skulls in the mud like stone
Steel in my fist
Heart beating
We don’t go home
We don’t go home
Ravens over red fields
Screaming
Spears in the storm cold chrome
Die on our feet
Not kneeling
We don’t go home
We don’t go home
[Bridge]
Oath-ring is cold
Bitter as bone
Choose how you fall
Choose where you’re thrown
Glory is cheap
Honor is hard
Carved on the helm
Scar after scar (yeah)
[Chant Section]
[Music cuts out; only stomps and clapped rhythm
Growing crowd voice]
BLOOD FOR THE ANCIENT KINGS
BLOOD FOR THE ANCIENT KINGS
SHIELDS UP
SHOUT ‘TIL THE EARTHBONE RINGS
NO GRAVE
NO GRAVE
NO GRAVE
TAKES WHAT THE WILD ONES GAVE
AXE HIGH
DIE BRAVE
DIE BRAVE
[Stomps grow louder
Overlapping shouts]
WE FEAR NONE
WE FLEE NONE
WE FALL
AS ONE
(hey! hey!)
[Band slams back in double-time]
[Chorus]
Ravens over red fields
Screaming
Skulls in the mud like stone
Steel in my fist
Heart beating
We don’t go home
We don’t go home
Ravens over red fields
Screaming
Spears in the storm cold chrome
Die on our feet
Not kneeling
We don’t go home
We don’t go home
[Outro]
Ash on the wind
Crow takes the sky
Names on the smoke
We never die