00:09I thought the hall had lost your voice
00:14I thought the years had won
00:18Then somewhere past the northern lights
00:23I heard my father's
00:36We gathered when the snow came down with candles on the wall
00:40The old cup stood beside my hand, the one you used to call
00:45The fiddle played a simple tune, the kind you loved the most
00:49And every face around the room was half a smile, half a ghost
00:54I did not speak your name too loud, I held it in my chest
00:59But when the pipes began to rise, the room forgot its rest
01:03The rafters shook, the candles leaned, the old would seem to know
01:08That love can cross the coldest sky where living hearts can't go
01:12I heard my father laugh in Valhalla
01:16When the pipes began to rise, not a shadow in the doorway
01:25But a fire in the skies
01:30I heard my father laugh in Valhalla
01:34Like the old days had returned
01:38And the tears upon my face
01:43Were not sorrow as they burned
01:54You always laughed before the feast
01:57Before the cups were filled
01:59You said a quiet hall was worse than any winter hill
02:04You taught me songs with half the words and made the wrong ones right
02:08You danced as if the wooden floor was young again at night
02:13So when the bad parts found the air and climbed beyond the snow
02:17I swear the stars above the roof all started bending low
02:22Then often stopped, the room grew still, then joy came roaring through
02:26For every heart that missed your voice could hear it singing to
02:31I heard my father laugh in Valhalla
02:34When the pipes began to rise, not a shadow in the doorway
02:43But a fire in the skies
02:48I heard my father laugh in Valhalla
02:52Like the old days had returned
02:56And the tears upon my face
03:01Were not sorrow as they burned
03:08Maybe love is not behind us
03:11Maybe death is not goodbye
03:13Maybe every song we carry throws a bridge across the sky
03:17Maybe those who went before us do not sit in silent stone
03:22Maybe when the hall is laughing, they are laughing us back home
03:26So I raised your cup beside me
03:29Though your hand was not in mine
03:31And I felt you there above me
03:33In the music and the light
03:36For the fathers, for the mothers
03:38For the names we still recall
03:41For the old ones, for the loved ones
03:43Still beside us in the hall
03:45Raise the cup, let it shine
03:47Let the song climb through the night
03:50If Valhalla hears us singing
03:52Then we answer with the light
03:54I heard my father laugh in Valhalla
04:00When the pipes began to rise
04:04Not a shadow in the doorway
04:08But a fire in the skies
04:13I heard my father laugh in Valhalla
04:17Like the old days had returned
04:22And the tears upon my face
04:26Were not sorrow as they burned
04:31I heard my father laugh in Valhalla
04:35Let the whole bright heart reply
04:39Love is louder than the winter
04:44Love is stronger than goodbye
04:48I heard my father laugh in Valhalla
04:53And I knew with all my life
04:57Those we love are never silent
05:01When we sing into the night
05:06When we sing into the night
05:08I thought the hall had lost your voice
05:12I thought the years had won
05:17Then somewhere past the northern lights
05:22I heard my father laugh
05:26I heard my father laugh
05:27I heard my father laugh
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