Lyrics
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
They were born in the long white winter,
where the sun was a rumor and the rivers wore stone.
A half-elf child in the halls of Storgard
learned the cold takes everyone down to the bone.
So she gathered the mages, she gathered the years,
she poured out her heart till the whole world could hear,
and she sang to the ice one impossible thing —
that the dead grey hush could remember the spring.
[Pre-Chorus]
And the glaciers groaned, and the great thaw came,
and the elves fell down and they wept her name.
[Chorus]
Green comes back. Green always comes back.
Through the iron of the world she will carve a way through the black.
She is the thaw and she is the fire that the cold could not keep —
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury, where the forest runs deep.
[Verse 2]
But the gentle ones learn how to grow a blade,
and the goddess of gardens was never afraid.
When the machine-lords came with their hunger of steel,
she rose like a root that could shatter and peel,
split the cold metal, drag it down to the loam —
for the unliving thing will not stand in her home.
Call the elves from the soil, every druid she made,
each a green spark of her, every one unafraid.
[Pre-Chorus]
She walked into iron to murder a god,
left a tomb for the fallen in the ash where they trod.
[Chorus]
Green comes back. Green always comes back.
Through the iron of the world she will carve a way through the black.
She is the thaw and she is the fire that the cold could not keep —
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury, where the forest runs deep.
[Bridge]
At the end of the ages the sky tore wide,
and she could not shield them with magic or pride.
So she pulled all the green that she'd given the trees
back into her hands, down onto her knees —
and the forest she carried, the forest she'd saved,
she gave it, and gave it, and laid in its grave.
[Bridge build]
One tree still stands where a goddess once stood,
one green flame burning in the silvering wood.
[Final Chorus]
Green comes back. Green always comes back.
She gave the whole forest to mend the long crack.
She is the thaw and she is the fire that no winter could keep —
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury, lay her down where it's deep.
Green comes back. Green always comes back.
Where the goddess went under, the season comes back.
[Outro]
She is gone — but her song lives on,
in the green, in the green, when the winter is gone.
