Hand Of Kalliach
Samhainn
1. Beneath Starlit Waters
Deep in the heart of these
Whispering dreamscapes
The currents bear to me the call
Songs from a season
Lost under seas
These still waters conceal
Colder, the waters that
Bring the night closer
The waves like rhythms
Stir my soul
Dark beneath silver
Covers the wrecks
Of summers lost
Once more
Scents of the past filter
Down to my slumber
Slake the thirst with
Moonlight cold
Lifted on wings
Through currents beneath
This starlit sea I rise
Drawn from the depths
Piercing darkness above
Raising staff, and hammer
from the beds
Plaid to cast over
Land that decays
This cycle must commence
Bha mi an sin
Èirich
Reòta teachdaire
Thoir dhuinn an sneachda
And now
To raise hammer high
And cast down your plaid
Awakened and enraged
Lift me
From slumbering sea so dark
Let me behold
The sky again
Now seas
Give to you
The sweet release
That winds bring this land
Once more
And rise
The seasons pale
Futures fade by frosts
The omens cold embrace
And now
At this beginning
The horrors are unleashed
Repeated on this world
In ice
Staff high
And hammer to shape these skies
A loss, a cry heard far
From here
Grasp tight
To these precious sands you hold
Breathe in this night
So cold
No
Beneath starlit waters
The judgement rises now
The warmth all but lost
Agus
Ro mhadainn
Aon gealladh
Cha ghabh a shàbhaladh
A chur gu bàs
2. Solas Neònach
Wake
From dreaming
The warmth departs these shores
From eightfold crones the chants are heard
The sand inverted once again
The grace unseen
As paper fingers snap
The night encroaching all too fast
A blink, a moment, lifetime spanned
Held tight
By bone, and in fur clad
A mourning bell tolled slow by shades
Who came before, now looking in
Weighed down
Cast to the silent deep, and found her there
Now cast in stone with hammer forged
From shards of stars
Eyes high
Transcending this mortal veil
Let it go
Strength now
Pull free from the waters hold
Return me
Reach out
Where hearts lie in anchored rest
Keep it near
Let go
Of these ashes
Set them free from you
Lights
Now waning
And soon to be undone
As silvered eyes to winter sun
The interlopers earned their ends
A cast that falls
On frost to fill a glen
The sign of darker days, an omen
Sent by emissaries cold
The time a stream
Escaping from your grasp
The bloodied waters fill the cup
Now filled with hate of seasons past
The world is changed
The warmth that fades with time
The iron turns the earth again
And this strange light now fills the sky
Eyes high
Transcending this mortal veil
Let it go
Strength now
Pull free from the waters hold
Return me
Reach out
Where hearts lie in anchored rest
Keep it near
Let go
Of these ashes
Set them free from you
But all this
So dreadfully in vain
The truths of the unknown
The staring at the void
Bored through the core
The revelations
That cannot be reversed
The answers now regrets
A book that should remain forever closed
The knowledge that is held
As I watch that star descend
To mark the close of these long days
I will bury this in iron
At the bottom of a loch
Under skies of silver grey
To the nothing I'll become
These ashes over eyes that fade
The journey at an end
The writings go unread
The marks now left in sand and earth
The strangest light to end the page
A beauty clasped in teal
Beneath the morning waves
The light enchanting in this dawn
A bone white face that stared to shore
3. Each Uisge
Listen on the wind, the voice
It calls you
Let it lead you here, to me
Be guided
Lost, so far from home, alone
And weary
Ache of flesh and bone, your heart
I feel it
Let me bear you now, to rest
At long last
Ifrinn deamhan
An Each Uisge
Foul deceiver
Bound by this demon flesh
Hooves drive me, merciless
Dragged under churning waves
Foul air marks cursed day
From wrecked ship, I lost my way
We sailed against malicious waves
That dragged the crew to jagged graves
Voices, on the freezing air
Compelled the horses, white of hair
The ocean, spiteful, drove us back
Into the rocks, and sea pitch black
Lost, starved, parched, alone
Desperate now, so far from home
The voices called, so sweet and clear
Drowned out the warnings I wouldn't hear
Then, behold, merciful steed
Salvation found in time of need
But fate has found me, cursed fool
Bound to a demon dragging me to the waves
Ifrinn deamhan
An Each Uisge
Foul deceiver
Bound by this demon flesh
Hooves drive me, merciless
Dragged under churning waves
I approached, I felt it's stare
The sense of malice in the air
Trust to me, now lay to rest
The ache of years fall from you
Weak, fool, I did not leave
But mounted up, in sweet relief
Feel the desperation wane
Drifting from this coil
Horror, no, now sealed my fate
The realisation came too late
It's flesh began to meld with mine
Infernal spawn, in form equine
True face revealed, the mane ablaze
Towards the waves it fixed it's gaze
And galloped there with demon's haste
To drown me there, and on me feast
Ifrinn deamhan
An Each Uisge
Foul deceiver
Bound by this demon flesh
Hooves drive me, merciless
Grasping for silvered blades
4. Roil
Awaken
Ready for dawn
Prophetic the skies
Resistance in hand
Defiance in eyes
That purpose clear
Deafening now rings
Send gifts of iron
Through skulls of kings
The march to the edge
Borne on currents of hate
The will to endure
To reach glorious fate
To cast aside
False peace been had
And end the journey
In crimson clad
Go
Turn this glass to bloody roil
Fuel
Bring these waters to the boil
Tear the pillars down
Collapse the monuments
Stack the structures high
Ignite the effigies
Break the chains of slaves
And with that gifted steel
End the reign of gods
Restore the destinies
Strands of fate
Woven through these waters
Lead you here
To those shores forgotten
Into the roil
Facing falsehoods frail
That crumble to dust
Watch resolution fail
Thirst, the call to
Taste ichor near
To topple the idols
And devour their fear
The spines pulled up
By thin coils of lies
See realisation dawn
In these incredulous eyes
These creatures breeding fear
This pious hate they bring
This can't be ended now
Without more suffering
Go
Turn this glass to bloody roil
Fuel
Bring these waters to the boil
Tear the pillars down
Collapse the monuments
Stack the structures high
Ignite the effigies
Break the chains of slaves
And with that gifted steel
End the reign of gods
Restore the destinies
Strands of fate
Woven through these waters
Lead you here
To these shores forgotten
Deep below
Sunken hearts will harden
Take hold now
Let the mirror darken
Into the roil
Grey and red once more
The demagogues now fled
The brave now blood and gore
The salt in their wounds
Well worn the hopes
Still blind to the truths
That hung from the ropes
The towers scarred the earth
Now torn apart and burned
Their cursed ashes left
Into the soil turned
The summoning now answered
Legions leave the shore
Waters glass again
Until fate calls once more
5. Cinders
Torn
Pulled from the void
Blackened the gift
Wrapped in the bloodied cloak
Lost
Awake in the dark
Shadows that move
Clawing the eyes can't see
Found
Hearing the voice
Louder now screams
Echoing endlessly
Caught
Thrown in a cage
Circled by drones
Ripping the flesh from me
Hope
Denied by cuts
Turning the blades
Shackled by destiny
Husks
Dripping with fear
Sensing the end
Tasting the suffering
Chance
Cast from the throne
Sand in the glass
Loss of the calling fuels
Rage
Vanishing time
Ticking away
Ignition certainty
Fuel for the pyre now
A blast to ignite, madness as a charge
A gasp in the dark, delirium waits
A flare to reveal, alighting the path
Fate falls, unmasked
A promise of hosts, now broken as ghosts
Departure betrayed, the godflesh now flayed
And in the wake, of heaven ablaze
May these cinders guide you
Bones
Holding their peace
Silence a curse
Secrets forever held
Heart
Beating at speed
Hearing it push
Feeling it strain against
Mind
Finally lost
Crumbling stones
Sanity rupturing
Feòil
Dèanta bho
Amadan agus
Losgadh e an grain seo
Ash
Cremated past
Fabric tears
Magma now runs through veins
Souls
Wreathed in the flame
Horrors released
Within these
Sacred walls
Fire
Calling the flames
Summoning strength
Primed now to
Burn out bright
Face
Desperate truth
Reach for the light
Know that this time has come
Put torch to pyre now
A blast to ignite, madness as a charge
A gasp in the dark, delirium waits
A flare to reveal, alighting the path
Fate falls, unmasked
A promise of hosts, now broken as ghosts
Departure betrayed, the godflesh now flayed
And in this last light, now drowned in the stars
May these cinders mark the end
But not yet
Through immolation, redemption
For all the stars I will not see
For all the faces that have passed
I will savour every second
As I watch it all collapse
No candle burnt out brighter
No darker tragedy
Now this doomed fate befalls us
Adrift in blackest sea
Immolation as a virtue
Inverting to ascend
In this race to destruction
May these cinders mark the end
6. The Lull of Loch Uigeadail
Seall
Tha I dorcha a-nis
An seo, aig bonn
An locha seo
Èist
Tha iad a 'tighinn
Bho fad às
Ist
An tàirneanach
Hearts
Aglow in rains
That fall to wash
The wounds from you
Hush
A time to rest
A space to heal
Be still with me
Feel
The waters stir
The knowledge pours
The truth unfurls
Rise
Above this calm
Empowered
Go
Rejoin the stars
Go
Rejoin the stars
7. Ascendant
Shatter the bonds
Under lunar eyes
Your wings the blades
Eviscerate the skies
Devour the silence
That chokes the air
The glass that shatters
from a single tear
Fervent
Blows from the hammer while
Servants
Gazed through the earth over
Seasons
Enrage the waters as
Reasons
Fade from your memories
The Visions remain
Burnt through your core
Searing agony
Of one thousand more
Above bloodied land
Under moonlight glow
See the horrors wrought
In the fires below
Mercies
Withheld upon high by this
Tyrant
Sycophants clamouring
Price paid
With blood and with gold was this
Flesh flayed
Butchered for vanity
Cut free
Pretence of innocence
Guilty, in
Court of the coldest sun
Judgement
Shipwrecked and dragged beneath
Sentenced
Condemned to deepest graves
Arise, now, arise, now
Through darkest moments
Through walls of loss
Under weight of grief
You are not yet lost
Through smoke of futures
Burning underfoot
Through the paths that stem
From this deepest root
You are not alone
In this endless storm
Become ascendant
Arise reborn
The revenant howl
The vengeance long
Justice returns
Six thousand strong
The debt to pay
In blood and bone
Now raze the idols
Shatter this throne
Cast from the cliffs
And fed to the deep
Their wretched bones
Now the earth may keep
Upon the pillars
Rising from the graves
Take your hallowed place
Above the churning waves
8. Òran na Teine-éigin
Churn
Bring the wood to burn
Drive the auger on
Smoking from the turn
Cold in every hearth
Frost in every breath
Eyes upon this
Single
Ember
Rope
Holding onto hope
Woven with a prayer
Lashing to the post
Ring to bind them strong
First begotten sons
Eighty one to
Bring this
Neid-Fire
Churn
Beckoning the flames
Summoning to save
Step between the smoke
Pull between the space
Calling to the night
Bring to us the
Ritual flame
Turn
Bring the wood to burn
Warm a hundred souls
Spare a thousand hearts
Light a candle pure
Set the hearths again
Starting with this
Ancient augur
Scars
Marked upon the stake
Each a blazing gate
Each a village raised
Each a future saved
Each a quiet plague
Cast into the
Fires higher
Rage
Heard across the waves
Heralding the days
Marshalling the storms
Crying out in vain
Bring the stricken near
Blades to sever
Through the aether
Hope
Ashen the line
Ripping the night
Tearing the malice out
Flames
Cleansing the land
Curing the ills
Radiant providence
Churn
Driving it on
Lashing the post
Bringing salvation near
Burn
Neid fire burn
Relight the hearths
Banish the fatal plagues
Stars gaze unblinking
Fuath rage unshackled
Cursed and corrupted
May this save you
9. Trial of the Beithir-nimh
Listen
To the mountain
Through the rain clouds
Through the thunder
Something stirring
Something moving
Something waking
Something old as
Earth is trembling
Mountain shaking
Time unmaking
Seconds running
Out from under
Burrows deeper
Ancient horror
From a darker age
Thunder
It is nearer
Storm heralder
Lightning lights the way
Searching
It is hunting
Now approaching
With the scent of prey
Pinned down
Feel the hellsting
Venom searing
Now the mortal chase
Escape
From the madness
That has found you
Pray to win this race
Storm clouds
Beckoned tempests
Darkened
Answers to these
Questions
Waking dreamers
Summoned
Nightmares racing
Fear now
Counting blessings
Summing nothing
As the storm sings
Eyes that open
Under duress
Signed in breaths now
To a grave test
To break curses
Win the races
Down the mountain
Swifter paces
As the clock strikes
As the sands run
Be the victor
Or the victim
Fly now
As the landslides
Over
Through the cliff sides
Under
Drives the Beithir
Racing
To the waters
Bha mi air chall anns na cnuic sin
Agus fhuair an dealanach mi
Twisted pact, a serpents ire
To race against this future dire
Whispers
From the corries
Offer challenge
To the heedless
Delving
Ever deeper
Through the burrows
Of the reapers
Vengeance
On the hunters
Who have made them
With their hubris
Venom
Laced with malice
Of a serpent
To repay this
Charges
Hold the air still
Thunder
Echoes fell will
Coiled
In deeper ground
Waking
Horror unwound
Bha mi air chall anns na cnuic sin
Agus fhuair an dealanach mi
Twisted pact, a serpents ire
To race against this future dire
Dragon, scorned of wings or flame
The thunder bellows out it's name
A venom only with one cure
To win a race to waters pure
Severed by the hunter's blade,
Under the lightning, form remade,
The fated spin, to die or live,
The twisted trial, the Beithir-Nimh
10. Return to Stone
Lost
On waves
Of an endless sea
Under starlit skies
It returns to me
The strength from steel
And peace from blade
The calls now warped
The mind now frayed
Still as glass
This ocean deep
These answers drowned
Abyss to keep
Gently now
That promise made
The time, the strands
Of the fates to braid
A tender glance
At a weathered face
As the summers fade
And dissolve this space
The seasons turn
The warmth behind
The light of spring
Now repaid in kind
The void, that calls
The hour, that's near
Under watchful skies
That song, so clear
The hand that weaves
The skin, and bone
It binds you now
Return to stone
Silver from the skyline
Mercury from ocean
Blackened as the remains
Ashen as the new day
Earth that lines the graveside
Waters at the high tide
Fire marks the turning
Air to fan the burning
Brighter as the light shines
Colder from the insides
Deeper as the waves break
Harsher spirit to wake
Faster for this last time
Longer hear the steel chime
Higher as the shade flies
Louder as the winds rise
Aon, Da, Tri, Ceithir
Silent cries, calling you
Ancient weights, release you
Rising now, to unfold
Whispering, let it go
The memories I cannot find
The faces of those left behind
The rage against the cruelty here
The hope gave way to hate and fear
This last farewell, a final gasp
As that cold hand, tightens its grasp
I will not bend, I will not break
Ready I stand, to face my fate
The void, that calls
The hour, that's near
Under watchful skies
That song, so clear
The hand that weaves
The skin, and bone
It binds you now
Return to stone
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