Prompt:“The Farmer Watches the Skyfire”
(Storyteller style — Nordic fantasy folk metal)
Verse 1
The snows came late to Valdres Hold,
The rivers woke before the cold.
The mountain sheep cried through the rain,
And spring arrived too fast again.
He bore his father’s weathered hands,
And knew the moods of stone and lands.
Yet every sign the forest gave
Felt twisted now… disturbed… depraved.
The ravens circled low at dawn,
The ancient glacier nearly gone.
And deep beneath the northern peaks,
Something old began to speak.
Chorus
Oh, the farmer watches the skyfire burn,
Where the seasons twist and the cold won’t return.
He knows every cloud, every wind, every star,
But the heavens now whisper of war.
So he grips the plow though the red ash falls,
As thunder wakes in the mountain halls.
From the first pale light to the blackened morn,
He prays the dragon stays unborn.
Verse 2
His grandsire spoke of the Frost King’s reign,
Of starving fields and endless rain.
But storms were honest in elder years—
Now dread arrives too slow for tears.
The summer hail came hard as steel,
Crushed the rye beneath its heel.
The cattle stirred with frightened eyes
As shadows moved across the skies.
Then one red night the forest shook,
And fire poured from the mountain brook.
The northern ridge split open wide—
And wrathful wings eclipsed the sky.
Chorus
Oh, the farmer watches the skyfire burn,
Where the seasons twist and the cold won’t return.
He knows every cloud, every wind, every star,
But the heavens now whisper of war.
So he grips the plow though the red ash falls,
As thunder wakes in the mountain halls.
From the first pale light to the blackened morn,
He prays the dragon stays unborn.
Bridge — spoken-sung
He does not speak the wizard’s words.
He does not kneel in the southern courts.
He simply wakes before the sun,
And listens to the restless fjords.
But tonight the dogs refuse the dark.
The horses scream within the barn.
And high above the ancient pine,
Two burning eyes begin to shine.
Final Chorus
Now the farmer faces the dragon’s flame,
While the sky itself forgets its name.
The mountains roar, the rivers steam,
And nothing is as it once had seemed.
Still he stands with trembling spear,
Guarding all he once held dear.
One last harvest. One last stand.
Fire and ash across the land.
Outro
The snow came late to Valdres Hold…
And winter died before it grew old.
But the barn still stands beneath the smoke,
And the old gods stir beneath the oak.
Farmer watches the burning sky…
As the dragon circles high.