VERSE 1: After strife I bring smiles of The family that strives beside. After war I bring children to Grow strong. After frost I bring colors of The summertime to come again. After dark I bring patience for the dawn. While I grew I saw summers growing Stronger with the mounting years. When I played I felt nature playing too. While I lived I thought nothing was too Frozen for my warmth to heal. When I died, then, Lady, I met you. Grieving World Souls too many to tell. Even memories of Summer sun turn Harsh and black as Hel I see Now what grown men Fear and every Child but me has always known I’d never Seen true dark before. And now your father has me Join you in the land of the CHORUS: Abandoned men, abandoned place, Abandoned world, abandoned race, Abandoned you, abandoned me, Abandoned all to the Hel of the abandoned. VERSE 2: Blackest World, Cold and distant and strange. Even thinking freezes Year by year, but Still can’t fade away. Yes, I knew while Valhalla held The chosen in my father’s care There were limits to whom Valkyries could Choose There were many hopeful voices that fell Silent with a final prayer But I never saw the consequences Like you do Like I do now. Only one end Patient ’til when Ragnarok comes Father always planning for Tomorrow not today Father I trust, you did the best The Norns allow. He granted you dominion over Those who fall away Never thinking I would Follow them down To you who Who I knew as Nothing but a stranger’s distant name A curse, an enemy, a memory The souls up there had Nothing but hate for you, so Glad to escape you and Ready to face you Down when the darkness Comes, but those down here Who were so near And tried so hard And fell so far Down into the dark, where even I fall blind without my Light, but learn to See inside your Shadow and your sorrow and your night Father would say There was no other way But now I understand how Children, mothers, elders, brothers Peaceful folk could hate us so that They would rise at Ragnarok and Join our foe! ’cause we CHORUS: Abandoned them, abandoned place, Abandoned world, abandoned race, Abandoned you, abandoned me, Abandoned all to the Hel of the Abandoned VERSE 3: And I knew There were races that were Older than the worlds we made. There were Reasons that my uncle sat alone. There were monsters in the darkness that My brothers had helped seal away But we never called you “cousin” only Enemy How could I see beyond the labels and the war? Which must come, so certain since our fathers made it so. Fathers made us go Here, near Dangers that breed so Close in his promises and Prophecies and lies! Heat, his leaking rage, its lava creep, That always churns and never sleeps My father waits to see him weep But he waits only for the war. I could hear when my Father’s envoy begged you, and you Dictated the Terms of my release. You asked Everything alive and dead to Weep as one for me. You were Testing them weren’t you? Asking consent from the Dead in your Hel and the Living who may yet fall down Into the dark where so Many will come For if I rejoin the living world, forgiving and forget And the stones and seas and father too renounce their grim revenge And forgiveness heals Yggdrasil, and peace stays strong Then to warm the fleeting living we Condemn the frozen dead to wait on And give up Ragnarok For me! There they wept, every ghost. Every soul in your great lost host Just so I can warm the living They consent, the patient dead Every Child, every man, every Root, every tree, every Bird, every beast, every Ghost, every god except one Father, I still Trust you but don’t understand Why you no longer Try to stop the war Which must come, so Certain since our fathers made it so, Certain since our fathers won’t let go. I think on our fathers, the choices they made And I almost believe there was no other way, But we wait and we watch and the anger it fades still there is no hope of rescue until both our fathers change FINAL CHORUS: And they abandoned us, abandoned place, Abandoned world, abandoned race, Abandoned you, abandoned me, Abandoned all to the Hel when we Accepted death, accepted war, No longer try to change its course, Abandoned life, abandoned hope, Abandoned all to the Hel of the Abandoned

VERSE 1: Fields fade and warm days age and. Summer suns grow weak. Shades sleep and shadows creeping come. Dim dreams as fear comes near and Doom knows what it seeks. Dark and dank to thank when death has won. On Valhalla’s steps the laws of death are Easy to forget, when the Power rests with those who cheat so well. The gods above and those they love share Asgard’s golden rest, while the Greater part of life is cast to... To me who can see with Mother’s eyes beyond the dark below A witch’s vision of the World above that I have never Tasted, I am wasted by your Father’s fear of what I could have been And what he made me Be in the land of the CHORUS: Abandoned men, abandoned place, Abandoned world, abandoned race, Abandoned you, abandoned me, Abandoned all to the Hel of the abandoned. VERSE 2: When ice-born Jotuns meet our end we Fade to senseless dust unless Darker spells compel the will to stay But Odin fashioned humans with Eternal souls in trust, that don’t Even have the choice to fade away. When ice-born Jotuns meet our end we Fade to senseless dust, unless Spells keep spirits bound as witches Choose But Odin fashioned humans with Eternal souls in trust, that must Wait and hate and rot their long night Through... True Like I do now Waiting for the cock that never crows. Only one end Patient ’til when Ragnarok comes And ends it. Your Father always planning for Tomorrow not today And pretending it’s the best the Norns allow. He granted me dominion over Souls he casts away Never thinking such a gift would matter Who I knew as Nothing but a stranger’s distant name That others cling to Nothing but Promises and Prophecies. The Souls down here are Eager to stay with you and Desperate to pray to you and Quick to embrace you Now that the sun has Come to the dark, without your Warmth without your hope without your Light, who were so far And tried so hard But fell to me. They con- -tinue to pray to you, Beg to be saved by you, but What can you offer them now? Men love you, beasts love you, Stones love you, seas love you, They loved you once, but you Stay our foe CHORUS: Abandoned them, abandoned place, Abandoned world, abandoned race, Abandoned you, abandoned me, Abandoned all to the Hel of the Abandoned VERSE 3: You knew There were races that were Older than the worlds you made. There were Reasons that my father sat alone. There were monsters in the darkness that your brothers sealed away But we never called you “cousin” only Crone Enemy How could I see beyond the labels and the war? Which must come, so certain since our fathers made it so. Fathers made us go Down here, where I can hear with Mother’s ears a father’s curses, Shrieking in his shackles, not Too close, but not too far to feel his Heat, his leaking rage, its lava creep, That always churns and never sleeps Your father waits to see him weep But he waits only for the war. Heat, his leaking rage, its lava creep, That always churns and never sleeps Your father waits to see him weep But he waits only for the war Soon it’s coming, say it’s coming Soon our battle and our end. Soon it’s coming, say it’s coming Soon our battle, our revenge. Soon it’s coming, soon we’re Here waiting for the cock that never crows. Soon it’s coming, keep it coming Soon our battle For if you rejoin the living world, forgiving and forget And the stones and seas and Odin too renounce their grim revenge And forgiveness heals Yggdrasil, and peace stays strong Then we wait and wait And wait and wait Then to please the fleeting living you Condemn the frozen to wait on. And they would have waited too. Anything for you. Just so you can warm the living They consent, the patient dead To wait on They love you, they love you They love you, they love you Bird, every beast, every Ghost, every god except one Heat, his leaking rage, its lava creep, That always churns and never sleeps Your father waits to see him weep But he waits only for the war Which must come, so Certain since our fathers made it so, Certain since our fathers won’t let go. I think on our fathers, the choices they made And I almost believe there was no other way, But we wait and we watch and the anger it fades still there is no hope of rescue until both our fathers change FINAL CHORUS: And they abandoned us, abandoned place, Abandoned world, abandoned race, Abandoned you, abandoned me, Abandoned all to the Hel when we Accepted death, accepted war, No longer try to change its course, Abandoned life, abandoned hope, Abandoned all to the Hel of the Abandoned