Bleeding Black

A song inspired by the game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Lyrics:

Heavy head, heavy heart, heavy breath
Step by step, I dance with death
Cold stone, cold skin, cold stare
The voices whisper don’t go there

Don’t go
go there
there’s nothing
nothing left

Ek brestr en brennr, ek brestr en brennr
Ek snýsk en fellr, ek snýsk en fellr
Myrkrið elskar mik, hatar mik, veiðir mik
Ek ber hann, ek ber mik

He’s gone.
He’s here.
He's no more.
Show no fear.

Black roots grow from godless ground
The dead don't sleep, they circle round
Their teeth are prayers, their eyes are lies
They whisper truths I can’t deny

It’s not real.
It’s all real.
Their scorn.
You’re wrong.

The gate, the gate, the gate is near
Fear is fate is fire is fear
Drip by drip the sky turns red
I wear my love—I wear the dead

I break but I burn but I break but I burn
I scream but I drown but I scream but I drown
I walk through Hel, through hate, through hollow
No gods above, no peace to follow
I carry him.
I carry me.
I carry everything I cannot see.

To wake up
I must dream