Lyrics
Verse 1Before the pine, before the snow,
Shallow seas moved to and fro.
Volcanic fire split the night,
And ash sank through the water’s light.
Verse 2Salt water pierced the fractured stone,
And bore the hidden metals home.
Then rose through darkness, hot and slow,
And laid the beds of iron below.
ChorusYou were born beneath the stone,
Where the fire met the foam,
Where the darkened waters ran
Through the veins of newborn land.
Born of pressure, born of flame,
Long before the forests came.
Bergslaagen, old and strong,
Stone became your firstborn song.
Verse 3Then continents began to close,
The seabed buckled, bent and rose.
The limestone turned to marble white,
As mountains gathered heat and might.
Verse 4When buried mountains cracked apart,
Hot waters found the mountain’s heart.
In open seams the crystals grew,
In forms the daylight never knew.
ChorusYou were born beneath the stone,
Where the fire met the foam,
Where the darkened waters ran
Through the veins of newborn land.
Born of pressure, born of flame,
Long before the forests came.
Bergslaagen, old and strong,
Stone became your firstborn song.
BridgeThen ages wore the summits down,
And ice moved south without a sound.
It scored the hills and ground the plain,
Then loosed the lakes and streams again.
The birch took root, the dark pines grew,
Above the ores no daylight knew.
They waited under lake and fen
For fire to wake the hills again.
ChorusYou were born beneath the stone,
Where the fire met the foam,
Where the ancient waters ran
Through the veins of newborn land.
Born of pressure, born of flame,
Long before the miners came.
Bergslaagen, old and strong,
Stone became your firstborn song.
OutroBefore the hammer, bell and mine,
Before the songs of iron and pine,
The sea, the fire, the ice had drawn
The bones that bore the coming dawn.
Born beneath the stone...
Born beneath the stone...