TITLE:
Heimdall Does Not Sleep

STYLE:
Nordic Viking metal fused with hip-hop, drop-D down-tuned heavy guitars, pounding war drums, tagelharpa and bone flute, deep throat-singing drones, cinematic strings, male baritone half-rap lead, female contralto lead, massive mixed choir, gang shouts, anthemic, epic, modern heavy production, clear intelligible English vocals, 88 BPM, epic cinematic Viking metal, soaring, horns and strings, galloping drums

EXCLUDE STYLES:
autotune, EDM drop, lo-fi, comedy, spoken-word only, children's choir, country, reggae

LYRICS:
[Intro - distant horn, wind over a mountain, choir swelling slowly, instrumental]

[Verse 1 - male baritone, half-sung half-rapped, steady and noble]
On the rainbow bridge there's a watchman with a horn,
Hears the grass grow in the valley, hears the wool upon the shorn.
He was set there by the treaty when the fighting had an end,
Not to guard a single kingdom, but to see and to defend.
He is small beside the armies, and he carries no great blade,
Just the eyes that count the ships and just the book in which they're weighed.
If the watchman sees it clearly, then the lie cannot be told,
So the merchant sent the ravens with a sack of silver gold.

[Pre-Chorus - female contralto, soaring and hopeful]
Keep your eyes
Upon the bridge.
Keep the lantern
On the ridge.

[Chorus - full band, huge choir, soaring melody, horns]
Heimdall does not sleep,
He hears the grass that grows.
Heimdall does not sleep,
He sees what no one knows.
Hold the bridge, keep the watch,
Let no lie cross over.
Heimdall does not sleep
Until the night is over.

[Verse 2 - male baritone half-rap, urgency rising]
They would burn the watchman first, because he's standing in the way,
Tell the world the watchman fell to raiders from the bay.
Then there's no one left to say the ships were never there,
Then the forged word is the only word and fire's everywhere.
So we stand beside the watchman with our shields turned to the dark,
Not to start a single fire, but to keep a single spark.
If they want to buy the silence, they will need to buy us all,
And we are not for sale, we are the bridge, we are the wall.

[Chorus - full band, choir, key lift]
Heimdall does not sleep,
He hears the grass that grows.
Heimdall does not sleep,
He sees what no one knows.
Hold the bridge, keep the watch,
Let no lie cross over.
Heimdall does not sleep
Until the night is over.

[Outro - horn call, drums fade, choir hum, instrumental]