Keen Of The Crow
Hyborea
1. Prologue
2. Where Dead Kings Lie
We died among you
Where no flames shall burn
A patrician of song
A stone in the earth
A spear of black
A banner of bone
We died among you
Where no flames shall burn
A patrician of song
A stone in the earth
Of song and reverie
Of times long since gone
Far from reach again
Soaring so high
Above us all
To reach the sky
To tame the flame
Of times long since gone
Calling for you
Reaching for you
Like a dream in us all
Ye shall awaken
And ye shall know
A time of war
We stand before you
A unity of might
An ensuing tide
Crashing upon the shore
We are of your flesh
A child of your womb
The blood in your veins
In ashes we are spent
We stand before you
A unity of might
An ensuing tide
Crashing upon the shore
We are of your flesh
A child of your womb
The blood in your veins
In ashes we are spent
We are the earth
The ebbing flow of time
The end and beginning
And all of nothing
We shall take all
The shape of the clouds
The mark of the wind
The vast open sky
Where only blood shall rule
Where only blood shall rule
Where only blood shall rule
Where only blood shall rule
Blood shall rule
Blood shall rule
Blood shall rule
Monument of blood and rule
A singe upon my flesh
Of kings and gods
I sing unto thee
Monument of steel and might
The spring from which I flow
Of lords and men
Mark and know it well
Death, a blessing
The storm of steel has come
Away, a moment
The ways of flesh undone
Monument of life and death
Each stone upon this earth
Of age and merit
I sing unto thee
Monument of grace and lust
The desire in your heart
Of pain and ruin
Savage, one and all
Death, a blessing
The storm of steel has come
Away, a moment
The ways of flesh undone
Vast, and open
The everlasting sky
Great, and distant
Below, the mortal glow
3. Hyborea
Dark, foreboding, symbolic
Dark, foreboding, symbolic
Of funeral and feast
As it was so before
A harbinger of loss
Of wind and sacrament
Just as always been
Dark, foreboding, symbolic
Of funeral and feast
This forest of the dead
Deep shall they root
From this earthen memory
The seeds are sown
Dark, foreboding, symbolic
Of funeral and feast
4. Left for the Wolves
Bonded, alone, waiting
Bonded, alone, waiting
Mark of the wolf
Cold
Death bears the mark of the wolf
Again shall this earth doth reckon
Blood for the dead inherit
And flesh for the feasting
The mark of the wolf
The omen's wretched calling
For dark rituals it speaks
This wolf witch now betrothed
By this Cimmerian steel
Cold
Flesh for the feasting
Left for the wolves
Conceived in fire and wind
Wailing through evening light
This wolf witch now betrothed
By this Cimmerian steel
Cold
Flesh for the feasting
Left for the wolves
Bonded, alone, waiting
Where all times beset
Unto this wall and chain
An oath met, an oath given
Bonded, alone, waiting
The hunter moon brings tribute
Death shall never claim me
As dinner for wolf
5. The Eye of the Serpent
6. To Reach Emptiness
Emptiness, of that I know you
Emptiness, of that I've found
Emptiness, of that I want you
Emptiness, of that I am
My will is the way
My will is the divine
The serpent's heart
The serpent's tongue
Enchanting you
Your will is my way
Your mind and your body
I'll give you this
Shall I tell you?
The riddle of steel
To reach emptiness
To reach emptiness
Want and you shall plummet
Know and you shall fall
You shall fall
Covet and you shall conquer
The strength and power of flesh
Want and you shall plummet
Know and you shall fall
You shall fall
Covet and you shall conquer
The strength and power of flesh
My will is the way
My will is the divine
The serpent's heart
The serpent's tongue
Enchanting you
To reach emptiness
To reach emptiness
7. Burning Away
A light upon this dark
A blaze which embraces us
A torch within our hearts
A burning sun, razing forth
I am the light upon you
Growing and growing
I am the fire within you
Burning and burning
Burning away
Burning away
Burning away
Burning away
Of your blood
I am bleeding
For your salvation
I am reaching
I am your setting sun
Dawning and dawning
I am your waking mind
Searching and searching
I am your saving grace
Knowing and knowing
I am an aging mind
Wanting and waiting
As your growing need
I am taking
Where all the rivers meet
I am flowing
I am the light upon you
Growing and growing
I am the fire within you
Burning and burning
Burning away
8. Valeria
She shivers, so cold
She shivers, so cold
Every breath brings curse
Handmaiden to Crom
Rests in Valhalla
She shall pay the gods
Her life for my own
With Doom she will reckon
Screaming at Crom
Vowing my vengeance
She shall lead my steel
Journey to Doom
Blood of his children
Sacrifice in her memory
She is calling out to me
My wife, my lover, my passion
I can still hear her words
"Do you want to live forever?"
She is my everlasting
My wife, my lover, my passion
I will repeat her words
"Do you want to live forever?"
When the wounds grow so deep
She shall command my fate
The vow has been spoken
The vow has been met
A toll for Hyborea paid in full
I'm the bringer of war
For honor for might
No matter the price I pay
I'm the bringer of war
For honor for might
No matter the price I pay
War
War
9. Seeking Fury, Becoming Wrath
A sign, a memory
Of a time long since past
This pain and suffering
Razed by their flames
The enigma of steel
The iron fist of war
Of pain and ruin
Of blood shall ye reap
Of blood shall ye reap
Its seed ye shall sow
Together they face above a blackened moon
Yet they are one above a blackened sun
A sign, a memory
Of a time long since past
My blood and lineage
Razed by their flames
The enigma of steel
I shall be its master
Of pain and ruin
Of blood shall ye reap
Together they face above a blackened moon
Yet they are one above a blackened sun
Together they face above a blackened moon
Yet they are one above a blackened sun
Fury
Wrath
Fury
Wrath
I have come to burn your temples
To seal your ruin
To end your lives
I have risen to claim my vengeance
Seeking fury
Becoming wrath
Together they face above a blackened moon
Yet they are one above a blackened sun
Together they face above a blackened moon
Yet they are one above a blackened sun
Fury
Wrath
Fury
Wrath
10. Stygian Black Lotus
Dying...we are all dying
Dying to live...living to die
Devour the graven bloom
To reap the bitter harvest
Embrace the divine dark
Caress this black oblivion
To my lips, the stygian lotus
Drowning my waking mind
A vision of grand dementia
Entombed in this ecstasy
My mind this refuge
This curse of flesh and blood
Grasping the ever black
To my lips the stygian lotus
Drowning my waking mind
A vision of grand dementia
Entombed in this ecstasy
Time enough for sleep
In the grave
Time enough for sleep
In the grave
Grave...
11. Epilogue
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