The view from above has no start and no end,
Just the fields & the halls & the calls of the men
And the races that rise and get slaughtered again and
Barely leave their mark.

Still the view from above has no start and no end,
Just the fields and the halls and the calls of the men and The races that rise and get slaughtered again and barely Leave their mark. Past the
Stones and the ice and the oceans of gray, in the
Land where the frost never yields to the day, with the
Brutes all around you I spotted your blaze
Like fire in the dark.

n those early days I shared with no one, an
Allfather’s questions I bared to no one, for
None of my brothers or sons could match me,
Thought for thought or plan for plan.

What the gods couldn’t give I could feel inside you, a
Fire too bright for the ice to hide you.
I’d never been terrified by anyone before.

And when I asked to make us brothers
And to share all that we were,
How could anyone resist becoming
Part of what I thought you were?

But as your blood coursed through me
I could feel our powers mix.
My sight, your burn, my sacrifice,
The fears of men, the rage of ice,
My wisdom, cunning, hunger, heart,
Your secret plans and secret arts.

CHORUS:
My brother, my enemy, don’t dare say the word destiny,
I offered you the best of me, you turned it into this!
My traitor, oathbreaker, don’t say you had no choice!
He was my son; it was your promise.
There are things I can’t forgive and this is one.
And though this world may burn I’ll see my justice done.

Where’s the brother I wanted and thought that I knew?
Where’s the love and the oath that I traded with you?
There was poison at work in the ice where you grew
And where you should have stayed.

I gave you my family, my power, my pride, shared the Food at my table, the seat at my side,
So treat me like a brother and I
Wouldn’t be your enemy.

My brother, my enemy,
my brother, my enemy,
my brother, my enemy,
my brother, my enemy.
I realized too late what I’d taken as kin, with your
plots and your smiles and the harshness within.

You had nothing
Left to gain.

Where’s the brother I wanted and thought that I knew?
Where’s the love and the oath that I traded with you?
If you’d kept on pretending it could have stayed true,
At least for me.

The monsters you bred were a danger to all,
First the wolf that would smother the sun in its jaws,
The serpent that strangles the world in its coils,
The witch as hard as death.

My brother, my enemy,
My brother, my enemy,
My brother, my enemy,
My brother, my enemy.

These worlds are my duty to guard and protect.
Your children were my enemies.
I can’t make exceptions before such a threat.
Your children were my enemies. Since the
Monsters you bred were a danger to all,
First the wolf that will crush even me in its jaws;
Then the serpent whose poison will topple my sons;
The witch who calls the hosts.

You know I can see what the future will be,
I told you what happens if those three go free. These
Worlds are my duty to guard and protect,
There was no other way.

And when I asked to make us brothers and to
Share all that we were, how could
Anyone resist creating what I thought
We’d make the world?

CHORUS:
My brother, my enemy,
Don’t dare say the word destiny,
I offered you the best of me,
You turned it into this!
My traitor, oathbreaker,
Don’t say you had no choice!
He was my son; it was your promise.
There are things I can’t forgive of anyone.
Why did you have to do the only one?

The gods up above and the men below
Have a single sun to part the snow,
And a single crime we can’t forget:
You ripped him from the skies.

Your silence pretends you have cause to conceal
Some higher agenda you couldn’t reveal.
Don’t think I can’t see jealousy
Transparent in your eyes!

You made yourself my enemy. You
Made yourself my enemy. You
Gave your sacred word to me, you
Made yourself my enemy.

The gods up above and the men
Below have a single sun to part the snow.
You couldn’t stand to see a brighter
Fire in the dark!

I gave you my family, my power, my pride,
Shared the food at my table, the seat at my side.
You sent my precious son to join the
Shadows in the dark.

And when I asked,
And when you answered,
How could anyone
Forgive?

CHORUS:
My brother, my enemy,
don’t dare say the word destiny,
I offered you the best of me,
you turned it into this!

You
Ran and you
Hid and you
Fought and you
Cursed and you
Struggled in your shackles as I
Watched for lonely centuries.

From my throne up above I can see you there,
Serene now like a child at prayer,
Waiting;
I am
Waiting too.

My riddle, monster, slaughter, whisper
Asker, question, answer.
The sickness creeps through
Just as you do,
Poison dripping down.

There’s a sickness, it’s true, that is spreading.
And there’s a sin that takes root in my worlds.
For every
Child, every man, every
Root, every tree, every
Stone, every mountain is
Crying to me that this
Life’s not worth facing, its
Wars and its plagues, without the
Comfort and sunlight that
You took away, and they
Pray not for justice, forgiveness, or peace
But for
Vengeance! Vengeance!
Vengeance! Vengeance!

My brother, my enemy,
Don’t dare say one more word to me!
We should have had eternity,
You had to make it end!
Deceiver, corruptor,
My prisoner, my tormenter. So,
Treat me like a brother
And I wouldn’t be your enemy.
My traitor, Oathbreaker,
Don’t say you had no choice!
He was my son; it was your promise.
There are things I can’t forgive, and this is
One. And though this
World will burn I’ll see my justice
Done!