The Serpent's Trail

There's a crack in reality

Inside there is a hidden veil

I sense my fate waits for me

As I descend the serpent's trail

The winding path downwards leads me

Through twisted trees and stinking bogs

I dare not stop to look around me

I'll lose myself in thickening fog

Into darkness, I am drifting

I am losing my direction

Someone told me, keep your feet

If you are to walk this way

A fearless heart with a steady beat

Or else you may be led astray

What you look for, what you seek

Is at the end of this trail

You must walk with a steady beat

Or else you may be led astray

You will drift away

I see shapes of men among the trees

Stuck in a place of frozen glow

They're turned to stone by what they've seen

A pain and fear they can't let go

I spiral down towards the earth's core

Where all my terrors seem to dwell

Where many who have come before

Stumbled, crumbled and they fell

Into darkness, I am drifting

I am losing my direction

Someone told me, keep your feet

If you are to walk this way

A fearless heart with a steady beat

Or else you may be led astray

No return, no retreat

But you will surely find your way

Keep your heart at a steady beat

And you will live to fight another day

And there it is, the river Gjoll

Flowing cold with tears of grief

One cannot swim the river Gjoll

One has to cross the golden bridge

I reach the depths of Nifelhel

Alone, naked, and weak

Then appears the Goddess Hel

Who the dead and wretched keeps

But as I face my deepest fears

I open up my heart

And so a different path appears

My ascension starts