Sólbjǫrt - Daughter of No One

MOVEMENT I - DAUGHTER OF THE MORNING

Morning found me among the ashes, gold upon a field of grey. Twenty-eight winters in these eyes, and too many names I could not save.

They called me bright. They called me blessed. As if the sun had never seen the blood beneath my steps.

I learned to hold a trembling hand. I learned to close the fallen eyes. I learned that light means nothing if it only shines on paradise.

MOVEMENT II - MIDGARD

Midgard burned beneath our banners, iron sang against the bone. Gods were watching from their heavens. We were dying here alone.

I carried orders into fire. I carried brothers from the field. I watched the righteous become monsters behind the glory of a shield.

They said, Obey and you are worthy. Bleed and you belong. But something underneath my silence had been listening all along.

CHORUS

I was not born to follow the sun. I became it. Through every shadow, through everything they made me see.

No god above, no man beside me, no prophecy will name the woman I must be.

Sólbjǫrt! Sólbjǫrt!

If Midgard needs my light, then let it burn because I choose to be.

MOVEMENT III - LILITH

Then Lilith spoke without a voice, from somewhere underneath my skin. You were never made for cages. Why are you asking to begin?

I knew her. Not demon. Not temptation. Not the darkness they had named.

She was every buried answer I had swallowed and restrained. I can serve without surrender. I can love and still be free.

I can stand among the gods without belonging to their decree. I need no hand to shape me. I need no throne to give me worth.

If heaven wrote my destiny, I'll rewrite it here on Earth.

MOVEMENT IV - REBEL SUN

Let them call rebellion darkness. Let them curse the path I take. Every chain they forged around me taught my hands exactly how to break.

I have walked through burning cities. I have heard the ravens feed. Strength is not the blade you carry. Strength is choosing what you need.

No master! No fate! No chain!

I will choose the battles worthy of the blood upon my name. I will choose whom I defend. I will choose whom I forgive.

And after all the ways I've learned to die, I choose how I will live.

MOVEMENT V - SUN VALKYRIE

Look at me. There is ash upon my armor. There are ghosts behind my eyes. Still I bring the morning with me. Still I turn my face toward light.

Do not mistake my warmth for weakness. Do not mistake my calm for fear. I have stood where worlds were ending and I chose to remain here.

CHORUS

I was not born to follow the sun. I became it. Through every shadow, through everything they made me see.

No god above, no man beside me, no prophecy will name the woman I must be.

Sólbjǫrt! Sólbjǫrt!

Lilith lives within the answer that no heaven gave to me.

I was not born to follow the sun. I became it. She became it.

And if tomorrow brings another war, I'll meet the dawn as me.

ENDING

My light is mine.