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The old crows cry the first warning
The rumbling frozen ground the last
Hooves thundering on the three feet snow
The icy dawn yet to begin
"Bursting through the icy morning
four times five black shadows ahorse.
Seel glimmering in the awakening sun`s light.
And blood colours the white snow red.
Cries echoes through the dark deep woods.
Open wounds steam in the cold morning air.
And the new day was greeted with a burden
both raped and dead."
Long golden scalps hung by the old twin headed
beasts standard black
Women and children brought far north into the land of
no turning back
The burning village speared by the wind across the
tundra
Cry old Crow cry
Long tall beautifull people fallen lifeless to the ground
Headless scattered still graceful bodies
Blood coloured the white snow all around
Through the dark deep wooods to the mountains
towering to the sky
The wind carries the quest for revenge
and the tale of Blood on Ice
I have paved these forests for so long
I don`t know
If I am a man or I am beast
I though hold deep within me a quest for revenge
Then I must be a man as much as I can be
I have learned to speak the tongue of animal
I have learned to read the sign in bark and snow
I have taken within myself the spirits of my fathers
long time gone
In this shortt time,far from home
A man of iron I`ve grown
A man of iron I have grown
O yee one eyed old man.You who see it all
You who see the past and all to be
Say,yee one eyed old man.For I need to know
Tell me which path fate has chosen for me
Say does the Northstar still shine on me
Say will I set my loved ones free
O yee one eyed old man.Of yee our elders told
You have been since land and sky was one
And if you really knows all that will be,tell me
What the future wants with this young no one`s son
Say does the Northstar still shine on me
What fo you see in store for mee.......
"Questions,questions.Many you ask
about the future and some of the past.
Few hav seen what I see,fewer still will ever know.
I gave an eye to see a better
and you thirst fo knowlenge grows.
But you,my chld,who treads the road of pain.
Who have felt such anger.Such that bears no name.
Thee shall I nurse as if you were my own son.
And this very night your training will already have begun.
For I have seen you come for a thousand years or so.
And the gods have told me to teach you all that
I possess and know.
And hough me eye no longer sees
my hand held out in front of me,
I sill gaze crystal clear at all
that moral man cannot see.
And I see you riding up on a stallion as white as snow
which the speed of the winds and endurance unold
and you weild a sword of steel forget in fire an ice.
And the cry of a warrior you sound
and victory is in our eyes.
Hear me my son,for you are the chosen one..."
This sword of steel that I hold in my hand
Ore of this mountain.A sword of his land
Made for the king when the elders were young
Tu guard us and to guide us in an age since long gone
A sword to protect the peace in troubled times
A sword made to battle and to take a life
This sword is a backbone of the life that I know
Here among mountains and snow
This sword will be one with me.Body and soul
All of me will delivering each blow
Sting on my back.Oh,its power I feel
I can hardly wait to try its steel
A sword to protect the peace in troubled times
A sword made to battle and to take a life
This sword is a backbone of the life that I know
Here among mountains and snow
Behold its sharp beauty.Just look at its shine
This sword was forget in fire and ice
This sword is a backbone of the life that I know
Here among mountains and snow
Now I am redy
To let this old sword sing again
Tendons and muscles of steel
And the blaze of lightning in its eyes
Whie as the snow on the hills
And its reins,that I hold,they are mine
The sallion and sword in exchange
For my heartt and both of my eyes
The ravens ao swift wings my sight
Surely now victory must be mine
Eight legged stallion of mine
Run with the speed of the winds
Eight legged stallion I stride
Run as if you carried wings
I paint thee with blood from my veins
Images of origin long lost
I adorn your white mane and tail
With the stars that fell from the sky
Resting by my fire.Looking deep into its flames
My mind must have been somewhere else
Far beyond these plains
I am suddenly aware of a pair
Of eyes staring at me
I urn around and behold the most
Ugly thing I have seen
The woman standing in the glade
Like a shadow in the night
Points her wretched finger at me
With a wretched smile
And she asks me in a voice
That sound as if it`s been so long
Since she spoke,if I seek magic
Then I should come along
I`m but a man.Mortal a man.
But she leaves no footprins in the snow
Still I follow on to where she is going
For she has promised me magic if I follow on
She takes me to a part of these woods
Few have ever seen
Where the sun surely won`t reach
Still the ground ominously gleams
She says she`s seen is coming
And tha she known where I`ll go
But before I leave,she says
There is this one thing I should know
She offers me the ability
To take a fatal wound
Every cu by sword or spear will be
Absorded by her tree-womb
This magic will remain until it`s
Time for me to part with this mortal world
And all she`ll claim is my young heart
I`m but a man.Mortal a man.
And I`ll need all the help tha I can get
So I give my heart to the woman of the dark
With or without it... my life is not over yet
Wing of bat and lizzard eye
Dust of a star fallen from the sky
Tears of a virgin and the cum of a god
Thirteen drops of an infant`s blood
A twist of a cat`s spit and oil of the moon
Stir for a while a very soon
A salve to be applied upon the chest
Close to where the heart beats strong
"No pains will occur when hand is pushed into my flesh
She`ll slowly draw my living heart out of my open chest
She`ll place my heart in the pit of the snake and behold the years go by
Hers to keep from the moment when the time has come for me to die"
The one eyed old man told me that the face that I will see
Has paralysed a thousand brave men sure of victory
I cannot fight blindfoded and I`d freeze if I should see
So I need too sacrifice my eyes to see all from within
The one eyed old man told me of a lake tha no one knows of
Where the end of the sky unites with the bottom
countless fee down deep
And he told me when this world was young
into its depth his eye he had thrown
So what,though one eyed,he could see more than can be seen
I`ll hrow my eyes into the lake
So that I will see from within
I`ll thow my eyes into the lake
And when blind I will still see
At the bottom of the lake
My tho eyes will shine like the stars
At the bottom of the lake
I will see no matter how near or far
Regardless at which speed my horse
Take me though the night
No matter how sharp the blade
Of my sword seems to be
Even within the aid of two pair
Of eyes way up high
In the end before the Beast its face
I would have had to see
But with my two eyes in the depth
My vision is supreme
I see all things that can`t be seen
But not my hand held out in front of me
The face that makes men freeze
I now need not see at all
I`ll feel the presence of the Beast
But will not need sare him down no more
I`ve thrown my eyes intoo the lake
So that I will see from within
I`ll thow my eyes into the lake
And when blind I will still see
At the bottom of the lake
My tho eyes will shine like the stars
At the bottom of the lake
I now see no matter how near or far
Creator of life.Guardian of he dead
Goddess of battle and war
All of yee watch me.My sword by my side
Proudly I sit on my horse
And I wait for the sign in the sky to appear
Telling me that the moment has come
For me to ride beyond the edge of this world
Into the realms where the shadows are strong
Gods of thunder of wind and of rain
Valkyries my soul is yours should I fail
Let me beheaded and battered corps lay
And take me where you bring all nordsmen slain
Gods of thunder of wind and of rain
Hugin and Munin my eyes in the sky
Heart of mine thrown in the pit of the snake
I will not need no heart where I go should die
Realms of the shadows bring me no fear
I may stand or be beaten and torn
The mountains will stand.But the life of a man
Was decided long before he was born
Leaving the olains where my ancestors hunted
For meat and for hides against the cold
Here the fire was tamed.Here ous swords were made
And here the elders amazing tales told
I ride into the land few have seen or returned from
To tell of its bleakness and dark
I see nothing but mis and the mountains so tall
I can`t tell them and the sky
Gods of thunder of wind and of rain
Valkyries my soul is yours should I fail
Let me beheaded and battered corps lay
And take me where you bring all nordsmen slain
Gods of thunder of wind and of rain
Hugin and Munin my eyes in the sky
Heart of mine thrown in the pit of the snake
I will not need no heart where I go should die
Realms of the shadows bring me no fear
I may stand or be beaten and torn
The mountains will stand.But the life of a man
Was decided long before he was born
Gods of thunder of wind and of rain
Valkyries my soul is yours should I fail
Let me beheaded and battered corps lay
And take me where you bring all nordsmen slain
Gods of thunder of wind and of rain
Hugin and Munin my eyes in the sky
Heart of mine thrown in the pit of the snake
I will not need no heart where I go should die
Steadily on jagged wings
Feathers black against the burning sky
Spread your wings and ride the wind
Gaze down on me with blackest eyes
Fly my Ravens,fly ahead
Over the mountain and endless sky
Fly my Ravens,over my head
Let the wind carry you up high
Fly my Ravens,it`s time to fly
And for me maybe to die
Fifteen years have passed
Every day the woods have cried
The words of vengeance and revenge
The Gods have watched him day and night
By the Northern stars bring light
Growing stronger.Coming nearer
Upon a stees as white as snow
He is riding through this land of no return
His hair blowing in the wind
A sword in his hand.And his eyes they burn
Guide me,my Ravens.Find the way
Through the woods and snow
Let your eyes be mine seeking
For the valley of death
Come this far I am willing
To face the twin-headed beast`s breath
Let your wings be my heart
In the air,black as the night
I have steel at side.Powers of thunder
The Gods with me ride
I trust on my Ravens,watching from above
Black as night swift as lighting
Ang graceful as the doves
I trust on my stallion.Born by the wind
Taking me through the valley
Where this world ends and the shadows begins
I trust on my Sword.Forget in fire and ice
Its sharp blade shall be baptised in blood
As I take the Beast`s life
Cry,old crow,cry...
Come out of darkness,you best of Hel,face me
Out on this field of moonlit snow
I will not be deterred by your ugliness
Before my sword your two heads will row
I will not let my sword rest until its steel
Has sung for your ugly twin head
I`ll wipe the sweat off my face with your bloody scalp
And watch your four eyes telling me that your dead
Gathering speed.Charging forward
Collision is close now
The sword are drawn,heldhigh
They flash in the pale blue moonlight
Aiming a throats bare.The moment is so near
The time seems to halt for a while
Even the stars in the sky hold their breath
This is a moment of glory or death...
The moment to maim or to be put to rest...
So close now I almost can hear the black blood
In the beast`s thick veins pumping
I am swining my sword.May the Gods be with me
I ride out through the vast portals of Hel
I swing my sword in the air
And the dead beast`s wo bloody scalps attached to a spear
Now is come the moment for me to set free
Those,along time ago,brought far north
By the twin-headed beast
On that daybreak when old crow did cry...
That hard winter when I still a child...
By my Father was told of a hall way above the clouds
Gates open wide for the one who dies
With sword in hand