[Verse 1] Cold wind bites Salt on my tongue Tar in the seams Of the hull we swung Twenty strong On a rising swell Home grows small Like a fading bell [Chorus] Raise the oars Let the longship thunder Iron in our hands We tear the world asunder Gold in our eyes Hear the oceans roar back We came as the storm Ship Shield Axe [Verse 2] Shoreline breaks Smoke in the trees Dog howls once Then the village sees Boot to sand Fire to thatch One nailed door One broken latch [Chorus] [Bridge] Drink from the horn Pass it down Pass it down Names in the smoke In the flame In the ground What we have taken The sea will demand Until we pay We sail again We stand [Chorus]


