Fight 4 — The Circle Breaks

Lyrics

[Barker - Verse 1]
The herd-beast brought the circle, horns out, calves behind the wall —
on the ice he was a fortress, and the snake could not break in at all.
But the circle needs a herd, and out here he stands alone;
in the wetland and the water the formation turns to stone.

[Sisu - Refrain]
the circle breaks…
when there's only one to hold it…

[Barker - Verse 2]
The serpent took the wetland with a slow and certain squeeze,
not the air — the blood, the river — brought the great bull to his knees.
He held the ice, he held it proud, but a wall of one's a wall that ends;
the circle's only strong, my friends, with the circle of his friends.

[Barker + Sisu - Chorus]
The circle breaks! The circle breaks!
The strength of the many is the strength a lone one lacks —
the snake just held a little tighter every time he breathed,
and the fortress fell to patience, and the herd-beast was deceived.

[Outro - Barker]
Upset! The slow squeeze advances. The lonely strong go down.