[Intro: Dagmer Cleftjaw] He has to pay the iron price They'll never respect you while he lives
[Verse 1] Livin' life on the run is a sad short story Bitter with my troubles for the daily kill Jory Middle child of five, but I'm wilder and smarter Quick like a snake and calm as still water After Joffery made a martyr of my Father I had to flee the city, but my heart grew harder Gotta get to Winterfell, Yoren knows the deal Cats soft like Lommy, all they wanna do is yield For real, see everyone wagon needs a wheel And at ten I stay sharp, like castle forged steel The Lannisters are looking and the Gold Cloaks came They wanna gut a boy but Arry's not the name So he sent them back and he came back in the night I put the axe in the wagon because a man can't fight Green boys outnumbered, saw a few boys fall They took all of us ‘cept Lommy back to Black Harren’s hall
[Hook] Watch it all come around as I lay on the ground Joffrey, Cersei, Ilyn Payne, the Hound They all think I'm lost but I know where I'm found I'm the blood in the North when it all comes down My word is my bond and my bond is my word Valar Dohaeris, all men must serve See as a raven flies and time slips by Valar Morghulis, all men must die
[Verse 2] Harren the Black's legacy, the tallest of them all Now I'm blasted out ruin in my prison Harrenhal Death in every black tower, pain in every rotten steeple Ain't no room for hope and it smells of dead people, evil Nan, Arry or Weasel, the ghost in these walls when I speak names lethal Pawn in the game all the same, I'm a catalyst Before the Bishop peoples and I mingle with the savages Old lord lion tracks my family in the field Ask me if I believe anyone can be killed, for real I get three that's the deal, not too far from my first Soon I'll know how it feels Thought I was caught between my lord and m'lord But I show no fear, it cuts deeper than swords You damn right had I led a different life If I had been maybe a child of Pyke I'd gladly pay the iron price
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[Verse 3] All over the realm ran with cutthroats and pages Haven't seen the basics in this war of five Graces, patience Just like I remain nameless I think I've found my calling with the man who stays faceless Nice to think that my hands will stay stainless But a girl keeps secrets survival game shameless The Tickler was cruel, Amory an ignoramus I named both names and a man was gracious A man needs a name and a man pays his debts And a man owes three and a girl has a request A girl wants the old lion, but the man must digress So a girl names a man, as a man's last test The girl un-names the man, with some help to get away If a man does this thing then the girl must obey The man gives the girl a point as a girl decides to say \"The god of death will have his due, but we say not today\"