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The Gathering Storm
03:20
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Many tribes have gathered today
The drums of battle have gathered us all
We stand together in arms, to fight side by side
Summoned to answer our homelands call
This cause is one of life or death
Whether to remain free, or fall into slavery
We must set aside ties of tribe and kin
As one people, one nation, we fight this adversity
Thousands of martyrs tortured and burned
Our murdered fathers and butchered mothers
Our sons turned into little Romans
Our daughters defiled, spurned
In war we will bring destruction to our enemy
Salvation to our people
Thirsting not for plunder and glory
But for freedom and justice
We will march to meet these men in the open field
Tear from their heads the laurels they have won in battle
Chose not to die in chains but with sword and shield
The world will know that we chose to defend our homelands
To protect our families, keep our culture
That few stood against many
Under a gathering storm
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Alesia
06:41
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An eagle sits upon wreaths crest
Hunting the ravenous pillage of all
Mining through the scattered wealth-less
Amongst a gathering storm
Does the heathen man be not of home
Be not of tribe
In long forgotten sacrifice
We honor to the Gods
Our unity of will
Bounty whole of starving children
And last they cry, our wives
And abandon thee, our parent
Into long forgotten age
Pouring torrents of darkened hour
A child sits among unrest
Through filthy trialed abundant rain
Near mothers late of breath
This day be less of pennant
Psalm, dream and wish besieged
Stood firm in arm together
To fight for what believed
To men stood firm in greatness
While death assured to all
We avow our faith in brother
Till departed breath in Gaul
In battle to fallen embankment
In fire burned fertile land
For piercing these Legions of crimson
Immersed in the colors of death
These halls spoke grand near of combat
Foreign bane entrenched our death
We shall speak as ancestor of century
We sleep in the annals of time
Decide what you will choose
Through freedom grown in forest and nature
Men of thought and thew
Children strong of bone
In this life we’ve had guilt
Through seasons grown strong under broad shield
In scorn fall
In our homeland
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3. |
Straumfjord
06:01
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Sailing way in search of foreign shore
Navigating sky, by the stars up above
We left our land, and all those we knew before
To moor our ships in a realm we can call our own
Long white waves rise and fall again
Crashing, raining down, sinking to the deep with them
Our journey long, where no man has gone before
To find new land, a home on a distant fjord
The wind is strong, our direction is set off course
Crashing skies of lightening, the thunder rules the north
Auroral guidance showing us not all is lost
Our faith remaining, and boats making it across!
Crashing! Waves – and – sea!
Battered! Planks – and – beams!
Thunder! Rain – and – cold!
Icebergs! Clouds and fog!
Crashing! Waves – and – sea!
Battered! Planks – and – beams!
Thunder! Rain – and – cold!
Icebergs! Clouds and fog!
We sail along the coast, starboard side we row
West lying land, unexplored out to what we know
Barren land, finding icy rock and snow
Further south, our supplies start to dwindle low
Rolling waves, how much further till we cannot go
Before we falter, rest down beneath with souls below
Sharks, whales and serpents lie beneath the deep
What evil waits, waking from abyssal sleep
Crashing! Waves – and – sea!
Battered! Planks – and – beams!
Thunder! Rain – and – cold!
Icebergs! Clouds and fog!
Crashing! Waves – and – sea!
Battered! Planks – and – beams!
Thunder! Rain – and – cold!
Icebergs! Clouds and fog!
With promises of fine drink,
We waited....
Spurring us to journey to these foreign shores
Once a warrior of Odin,
I now wield but a vessel
No sweet mead do I drink, kneeling at the spring
We’ll return to where our countrymen await
Head our longships to scout the seas white plains
Let the wielders of sword storms lay the land
Unwearied, unbroken and stout from flesh of whale!
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Stories told in ages past
Of a vast pit that fell down
From a great mountain in fire and smoke
That poured on a people in a time beyond memory
Once Llao dwelled in the clouds up high
A chief of the above world
Who fell to his anger in fury
Fallen in demise
To where no one could witness his terrible nature
Hail you beacon arise over this age of ice
May Skell rain you down into lake
Our children shall not live to speak of our names
Forgotten to long distant age
And years shall pass
The waters shall rise
Up to cradle Llao’s head
As a battle rains down
We look to the sky
It’s painted a blood dress of red
Two holy men offered to below world
Protect us
A people from time beyond memory
Our maker of crater
A bringer of water
Ever ask us of gatherings
Our giver of life
Hail you beacon arise over this age of ice
May Skell rain you down into lake
Our children shall not live to speak of our names
Forgotten to long distant age
A beast called a God with a love for a woman
Who would wed him not of a wife
So in battle he caused the earth to tremble
To roads between darkness and light
These two Gods of man faced each in a battle
For one who would fall to the deep
And Skell crushed him down to sink into waters
Under skies beginning to weep
And years shall pass
The waters shall rise
Up to cradle Llao’s head
As a battle rains down
We look to the sky
It’s painted a blood dress of red
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Xibalba
05:03
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As lightning I am pulled from
A numbness from calmed sleep
Awoken to my throat
Binded by old vine
The sky is in rising
To shine over my last night
I follow these weary
Nine shadows of cold life
They pull our backs out
They pull out my eyes
They pull open my jaw
They cut out my tongue
Death must be upon us
Like thick coats of turqoise
Running down our flesh
Upon great heights of stone
Trials must rise up
Fought deep and within us
All men fall to mortal
In the games of the Gods
Open up thine hands
Pull out my heart
Reach in thine hands
Pull out my heart
The eye of Kinich Ahua hides beneath the moon
Come, enter through the stars
Witness secrets hidden behind
Fall unto the sun
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Cycladic Idol
05:22
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Within cavernous lairs imprisoned
Beasts of menacing teeth
Where golden masks of death will grimace
At offending greed
Be that you fruitful in soil and wine
The proud lands making love to the seas
Bright sun of this world
Grant me
Sons untouched by flame
Grant me the trees and the earth and the skies
With the ever changing need
For blood shroud stone
Upon beauty in lands of salt
Coitus is won over kine
Catharsis
Awoken from the deep to expel me
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Al Nefud
01:52
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Long miles through places of strain
I’ve seen nothing but long time in hungered stride
To the other side of worlds in decay
Mind eccentric in thought of road
To a mortal facing wear
Bloody howl from an iron horse
Falling to an eerie silence
Mecca calls for eager partition of impious rule
Levied resistance upon the stage of the world
Beast ridden tribesmen fight in irregular war
The virtues of youth are those of war
Al-Houl
This be cause for final revolution
Daring raids hold fast to greater resolution
Ordered sanctions of expedient task into war
War, war, war, war
A thousand camels, a thousand knives
Cracking rifles, a thousand bombs
A sea in which no oar is turned
The Arabs strike anywhere
Across the desert, against the Turks
For independence, we fight!
Descended command stands within Bedouin robe
Under raining smoke clouds of mortal part
Courage, strength, hope for the future
He who brings victory is prized!
Promised them freedom, independence from Ottoman rule
Generals, scheming, Sykes-Picot, we were fooled
The politicians, old men, know whom they scheme
But a man is unsure who tells only half lies!
I drew these tides of men into my hands
I wrote my will across the stars
To earn your people’s freedom
Death seemed my servant
Until we came near
When you smiled upon me
In sorrow and envy
The sunlight in the desert
The taste of wild winds
The new world we fought for
The many lives we lived
On trailing campaigns
For victory we fought
Stuck between the past and future
Nothing is written
Nothing is written
Nothing is written....
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