Wotan - Epos lyrics
Tracks 01. Drink In The Skull
02. The Quest For The Grail 03. Dark Centuries 04. Mother Forest 05. Spartacus 06. Vae Victis 07. Vlad Tepes 08. Dream Of Maxen 09. Chanson De Roland 10. Foggy Dew 11. Ithaca 01. Drink In The Skull
Dark eye sockets grim sneer
Empty astonishment to the sky Where's the blue light of your eyes And the wisdom of your smile Be my heart a lifeless crypt Temple of the hate Mercy is dead vengeance is awake I'll never forget his words Oath of vengeance oath of hate Swore on my father's sword Like a fever in my soul A dark demon without rest Implacable fire burns It's consuming me I cannot forget Until the last breath The terrible words he said Drink in the skull of your father You will drink in your father's skull Like a tree without roots Now I am dead inside But to avenge go on my life I'll kill him before I die Drink in the skull of your father You will drink in your father's skull 02. The Quest For The Grail
You are seeking
The secrets of the Holy Grail Season by season, Journey to glory You are the chosen One who will weld this blade And will drink the sacred blood But resurrected horsemen Black knights of hell Brandishing the steel You can kill them you can crush them But they'll rise and rise again You have to face them To achieve the final aim You are asking For the secrets of Holy Grail Ashes to ashes what's the answer But it's not the time for truth So long the way So short your life Darkness is escaping Broken by the light Won by your steel the roaring night The light embraces you And you feel a mighty force inside You've dared and fought To achieve the final aim So tired on your knees Now you are my friend The path is still long So frightful the night The path is still long So frightful the night The inner force the wisdom call The longest road you have to walk Greatness you will find Just if you want But now lift your head And rise high your sword Towards the sky Throw your battle cry Face the fate And fortune you will grasp Feel the force inside Victory is by your side 03. Dark Centuries
I was born in another age
In the kingdom of fear and pain There was no light of civilization Every dawn might be the last for me Faithful steel was my only friend When wild wind of war blew A bright sword a magic shield Followed me everywhere Riding in search Of power secrets Through volcanic lands Fighting of darkness To break the curse The seventh sword I stole And the spell was broken Furiously I ride Spreading fire and iron And the pain around me Burns the fire of the anger Rises the fury of the vengeance Blows the wind of battle Clangour of steel on steel 04. Mother Forest
In the deep of your heart
I heard a whisper I feel the silent breath of a hidden folk Mother forest your life Seems so asleep in the mist Of your green embrace The dying fire of Beltane is caught In the tender dawn And the falcon spreads its wings To the awakening sun There's immediate life between the leaves Shining of dew Here I'm lying waiting for a sign Still in the daylight He stands so proud The king of deers Is ready for the fight For the fight... 05. Spartacus
Like a wild beast
You've been fighting in the bloody show Slave against slave For the pleasure of the crowd But now swords and tridents Are for your tormentors Never again chains for you Freedom or death An army of slaves Follows you to escape You're ready to die For your rights Freedom is dead Killed by whip of oppression Now the iron bites your flesh Now you can see the tyrant You're spurring your horse And are running to kill But iron continues to wound You can only fall Six thousands crosses on the hill Is the tragic Epilogue of the only just war Of all the times Scream of rage for the free man He wants to break these cruel chains A cry of war of the wild man Death is better than the slavery So die for your rights 06. Vae Victis
The town is still burning when you throw your sword
On the scales You're like the Lord of Hades Breaking up in the world of light Awful warrior of chaos Came from the fog Of the unknown With your creaming horde Of embers of hell You bring here the terror You bring here the hate Destruction and sacrilege They'll never forget This is written With the fire For hundreds And hundreds years Until the wings of Vengeance Will be dipped in the blood Of your breed Ancestral fear of chaos From the deep Of their hearts Now you are here Bringer of death Eternal battle of giants Eternal battle of gods Darkness and light Order and disorder On fight Vae victis vae, A thunder your voice, Your sword on the scales Vae victis vae, Iron for gold, Humbling exchange Vae victis vae, A burning defeat, An oath of revenge Vae victis vae, Unforgettable fire, Unforgettable shame 07. Vlad Tepes
Black smoke is rising on the horizon
Like a falcon you spy the line Eyes cold as iron of a bird of prey Chaos pushes at the kingdom doors Listen to their dark drums Scanning the pounding of That bloody horde No time for reason No time for mercy Between the fire of war insanity Only pain in the clash of two worlds Caught in the storm of the rising hate The triumph of blind fury Crushes all the mortal men So you will fight again Like a dwarf with a sling against a giant You can't show mercy when he bites the dust There's no light of hope in your heart of stone Because there won't be a better time Cruel man you've spent your life Burning killing and destroying without remorse So leave behind you the forest of pain Made of thousands victims of hate 08. Dream Of Maxen
Let him dream on his golden shield
Let Maxen Dream The Lord of Lords, the King of Kings So in dream he can follow the river Rising on the highest mountain Until the town Of the thousands towers When a ship made of gold Is waiting to sail far away To a wonderful insland To a strange castle Le him open that gate So he will be in a great hall Full of light In this light he'll find The shiniest jewel Her beauty he saw in a dream, Sad sleepless nights But the time to awake has arrived Then he'll walk the road He saw in his dream To reach his love And his doom The twilight of a world Now has just begun Let him open his eyes Mighty lord In your hand The broken sword of doom In a dream you saw you've won Just till the morning comes Dream, dream The deeds undone But reality will come Dream, dream Your glorious days Your empire a memory in a song 09. Chanson De Roland
Silence everywhere
The time before the end Now I am alone The blow of my horn Will not break the calm The cry of the steel, The sad wail of farewell The black stone sparks tears Of anguish in the air I struck ten times But the blade I could not break Oh my sweet Durendal Born in the deep of the sky Clear and white against the sun Please forgive me I cannot leave you In unworthy hands A merciless ocean of hate Ready to overwhelm us Only a good death Remains for us, Remains for us If no strength can't destroy you Invincible sword Then I will lay on you And finally hide you from enemy eyes I strike and strike again My dance of death in battle I strike and strike again Sing for me when I'll be dust I strike and strike again My dance of death in battle I strike and strike again This sword I cannot break Darkness begins to fall And a veil of blood Obscures my sight A last blow in my horn The delivering of my soul A gloomy moan Across the mountains The sound of a glorious end Wings of archangel Merciful refuge There I'll find the rest I need And in the songs of echo will remain 10. Foggy Dew
As down the glen one Easter morn
To a city fair rode I There armed lines of marching men In squadrons passed me by No pipe did hum, no battle drum Did sound it's loud tattoo But the angelus bells O'er the liffey swells Rang out in the foggy dew Right proudly high in Dublin town Hung they out a flag of war 'Twas better to die 'neath An Irish sky Than at suvla or sud el bar And from the plains of royal Meath Strong men came hurrying through While Britannia's Huns With their long range-guns Sailed in through the foggy dew The bravest fell And the requiem bell Rang mournfully and clear For those who died that Easter-tide In the springing of the year While the world did gaze With deep amaze At those fearless men but few Who bore the fight That freedom's light Might shine through the foggy dew And back though The glen I rode again And my heart with grief was sore For I parted then with valiant men Whom I never shall see more But to and fro In my dreams I go And I kneel and pray for you For slavery fled Oh, glorious dead When you fell in the foggy dew 11. Ithaca
Dark clouds
At the end of the world A gathering of shadows Lost between sky and sea A life without course Pushed somewhere By the wind The body turns, Turns to bronze The heart turns to stone And the journey seems Without end You know There's a vindictive And cruel god Envious father of Cyclops Along your way, Your way home Only a gust of his anger To shake the seas To crush the wretched, Wretched life Of a little mortal man So the journey seems Without end Sometimes the fear Slowly slides in your veins Don't rush The journey at all You have to listen To the sirens song Before The last landing place Lost in the immensity Of universe Underneath stranger stars Maybe flat silence Maybe roar of thunder But hold firmly the helm And dream of home Beware the gods Astonished by Your mortal life It's challenge to them Never be afraid May be flat silence May be roar of thunder But the course is written In the net of fate |