Sodden Hill, Red Hair in the Rain

[Verse 1]
Thirteen stood in the morning mist
Mud on their boots and their names on a list
You were the flame in the freezing hail
Red hair bright on a broken trail
Smoke from the camp curled into the sky
You tied your cloak
Said “some must die”
Pages of spells in a leather roll
Ash on your hands
Triss Merigold

[Chorus]
Sodden Hill is calling your name
Rain falls hard on ember and chain
You held the line till the dark turned pale
You burned the night on that bloody shale
Sodden Hill remembers it still
Every stone
Every grave
Every chill
But I remember you standing there bold
Heart on fire
Triss Merigold

[Verse 2]
Steel met storm in a twisted dance
Thunder cracked over shattered lances
You drew a mark in the choking dirt
Breath tasted iron
Fear
And hurt
Voices begged as the sky turned red
You saw their faces instead of the dead
Chose the living
Paid in scars untold
Carved on your skin
Triss Merigold

[Chorus]
Sodden Hill is calling your name
Rain falls hard on ember and chain
You held the line till the dark turned pale
You burned the night on that bloody shale
Sodden Hill remembers it still
Every stone
Every grave
Every chill
But I remember you standing there bold
Heart on fire
Triss Merigold

[Bridge]
Did you pray when the light ran thin? (oh)
Did you curse every cost
Every sin?
Or just count breaths
And count them again
Till dawn cracked open
On a world barely saved

[Chorus]
Sodden Hill is calling your name
Rain falls soft on iron and shale
You closed your eyes
But you did not fold
Carried their ghosts
Triss Merigold
Sodden Hill
In the quiet
Is still
Yet under the grass runs a stubborn will
And somewhere far from that battered old slope
You walk on
Warm
A small
Bright hope