Prompt:

[SONG: "Realm of Gods"] [Intro] (Dm – Bb – F – C) (Child chop, glitched) (real-real-realm of gods... let it real-realm...) [Clean, low, reverent] Nine worlds hang on a tree older than memory... [quieter] I was born in the roots, but I'll die in the branches. [Verse 1] I come from soil that remembers every drop of blood it drank From halls where silver-tongued gods argue while the mortals sank I was raised on thunder, raised on ravens circlin' overhead Raised believin' every ending's just a door instead I don't fear the wolf that's chained beneath the mountain, waitin' still I don't fear the serpent coiled around the world, I fear the kill Of everything I love if I don't rise to meet the call Every god above is watchin' how I handle it all [Pre-Hook] And the tree is startin' shiver with a wind I can't explain Every branch of every world is feelin' the same strain I ain't waitin' for permission from a throne I've never seen Count it down, the roots are wakin', and I know what that means (Child chop) (mea-mea-means... and I know what that mea—) [DROP #1] (Gm – Eb – Bb – F) [Clean] I'm a child of the nine realms (nine realms) [SCREAMED, guttural] EVERY GOD ABOVE ME TAUGHT ME HOW TO WIELD THE STORM! [Clean] Raven's watchin', wolf's asleep (wolf's asleep) [SCREAMED] I'M THE THUNDER THAT THE WHOLE TREE HAS TO KEEP! (Child chop) (kee-kee-keep... the whole tree has to kee—) [Verse 2] I don't pray for softer weather, I don't pray to be forgiven I pray my hands stay steady when the sky itself is splittin' Every rune I've ever carved into the handle of my blade Carries every ancestor who walked this road before me, unafraid I don't need a god's approval, don't need a throne to call my own I just need this ground to hold me till the seeds I plant have grown Every myth I'm livin' in was somebody's truth before I'm just addin' one more verse onto the world's unfinished war [Hook repeat] [Clean] I'm a child of the nine realms (nine realms) [SCREAMED] EVERY GOD ABOVE ME TAUGHT ME HOW TO WIELD THE STORM! [Clean] Raven's watchin', wolf's asleep (wolf's asleep) [SCREAMED] I'M THE THUNDER THAT THE WHOLE TREE HAS TO KEEP! [Bridge] (Eb – Bb – F – Gm) [SCREAMED, cracking mid-scream] I DIDN'T ASK TO CARRY EMBERS FROM A WORLD I NEVER CHOSE! I BEEN HEARIN' EVERY WARNIN' SINCE THE FIRST COLD WIND THAT BLOWS! I DON'T WANT A GENTLE ENDING, I WANT THE ROOTS TO SHAKE— (harshest scream) SO LET THE WHOLE TREE COME UNDONE, I'M STANDIN' TILL IT BREAKS! (Child chop) (brea-brea-breaks... I'm standin' till it brea—) [GUITAR SOLO] (Gm – Eb – Bb – F – Cm – Gm) [DROP #2] (Bb – F – Gm – Eb) [SCREAMED] REALM OF GODS! REALM OF GODS! REALM OF GODS! (Child chop, rapid) (real-real-realm of gods! real-real-realm of gods!) [Verse 3] I'm not askin' for a seat among the ones who came before I'm just makin' sure the tree still stands when I'm not anymore Every scream tonight's a root diggin' deeper than the frost Every ending that I'm facin' isn't somethin' to be lost I walk between the worlds now, neither mortal, neither god Just a story worth the tellin', just a name worth the applause [FINAL DROP] [Clean] I'm a child of the nine realms (nine realms) [SCREAMED] EVERY GOD ABOVE ME TAUGHT ME HOW TO WIELD THE STORM! [Clean] Raven's watchin', wolf's asleep (wolf's asleep) [SCREAMED] I'M THE THUNDER THAT THE WHOLE TREE HAS TO KEEP! [Outro] (Dm – Bb – F – C) [Him, breathless, half-whisper] The tree is still standin'... and so am I. (Child chop, distant, fading) (...real-real-realm of gods...) (hard cut to silence) [end]