Lyrics
Verse 1Before the road, before the flame,
The mountain kept its buried name.
While ancient waters turned to stone,
And iron slept beneath the loam.
Verse 2Then axes rang beneath the fir,
The kilns awoke, the valleys stirred.
The water drove the wheels below,
And bellows made the furnace glow.
ChorusHear the songs of iron and pine,
Born where the flame and forest bind.
Through the hammer, through the cold rain,
We will remember every name.
From the deep earth, from the bright flame,
Through the hunger, toil and the pain.
Bergslaagen, your heart still remains
In the songs of iron and pine.
Verse 3At Långban, colours split the stone,
And countless secrets made their home.
The miners learned the mountain’s face,
And left their voices in this place.
Verse 4The bergsmän shared the furnace flame,
Each iron mark, each household name.
Women and children sorted ore,
While farm and forest fed the forge.
ChorusHear the songs of iron and pine,
Born where the flame and forest bind.
Through the hammer, through the cold rain,
We will remember every name.
From the deep earth, from the bright flame,
Through the hunger, toil and the pain.
Bergslagen, your heart still remains
In the songs of iron and pine.
BridgeNo kings are carved upon these walls,
But still the old shift whistle calls.
The forest grows across the rails,
The moss returns, the timber fails.
Yet under root and winter ground,
The sleeping veins still hold their sound.
Though years move on and fires grow cold,
We sing the truths the stone once told.
ChorusHear the songs of iron and pine,
Rising where the earth and forest bind.
Through the hammer, through the cold rain,
We will remember every name.
From the deep earth, from the bright flame,
Through the silence after the pain.
Bergslaagen, your heart still remains
In the songs of iron and pine.
OutroWhen every furnace fades from sight,
And pines reclaim the slag and stone,
The land will keep the names we gave,
And sing them back when we are gone.