Storms of saa blow across your fields
Laying waste to the knowledge your civilization once wrought
	Pulling cities into the sea
Paaren Disen trembles
Disenchanted sorcerer philosopher 
	Intent on the unraveling of all reality

[Chorus]
These hands - shape twisted reality
This weave - stars fall from the heavens
Unsealed - beasts rise from the ashes
Master 
Interloper /  Betrayer Of Hope

Whisper to me Lews Therin
Prophecies lost in the fires of heaven
Before the Wheel you're driven
Another age passes, another life given
The pattern is naught; just you and I
Endless cycles reliving your lies
One slip and the Light is lost forever
You cannot stop the Shadow

[Chorus]

I offer you darkness, the ending begun
Ta'veren mean nothing with the pattern undone

Dross and scum of the mundane
Sleep now let the Great Lord reign

By thine hand did you slay Ilyena
She lay betwixt red mirror-pools of death 
	Beautiful amidst a spill of golden hair
The Great Lord's glamour now reveals this truth
Sharper than any your One Power could divine 
	Dead by your hand, Kinslayer

Oh, to drown the sun and destroy the moon
	Unleash the balefire, raise the shadowsteel
	End these petty ages, unmake the Wheel
Be silent in your doom
Your blackened, charred, and unmarked tomb
	Is this still too esoteric for popular appeal?

[Chorus]

Rise no more
Rise no more
Rise no more
Awaken no more

Betrayer Of Hope

The gates are open
All the barriers are weak - rotting in moonlight 
Whirling dance through ghostly dusk, in revel  
Solstice deftly frays the seams between 
The real, the elements, and mind 

Rippling footprints on the ethereal, trampled in green and gold, redirected 
Irradiant imprints, cryptic deceptions - to repel our enemies
Ribbon of doubt lay beneath the outermost layers and spheres of thought 
Spun into a maze of deception 

Sword's cutting edge, all but invisible, crooning in frequency 
One in three to break, one in eight to bend 
Permutations flash and streak as lines written across the skies
Sixteen heartbeats to repent or strike 

[Chorus] 
The gatekeepers slain, the keyholders taken 
A changing of guard
The generals tamed, the ring-bearers broken 
A purging of gods 

Time set in crossing wormholes, cleverly wrought 
A curse written scarlet to displace the power of the gods

Brilliant rays, weave thy working child of Tar
Through the blackened threads of twilight receding
Silver beam, refracted, splintering in memory
Striking mirrors, throwing sparks - in delicate balance

Paradigms cast in all directions 
A thousand eyes from shifting shadows 
Flowing skeins of imperfection, sickening ichor
Welling up into churning shallows of gore

[Chorus]

[Chorus x2]

A Curse Written Scarlet

Heed my visions One-Eyed God
By the Tree and Nine
The forming of your kind
And your ultimate demise

[Chorus]
For the life that burst into light
(Reignited)
From the void rose heroes and sages
Then the Three arrived in the night
(Uninvited)
Held in their hands the fate of the ages
Fate of the gods
 
It began with the war against the Vanir
God against god
To sow the seeds of discord
Flawed against flawed
The Trickster will slay the Innocent
Would you know more?
Now chained he plots destruction
Will you know more?
 
Trapped in a pit held by his son's intestines
Venom that drips into his eyes
Nidhogg he feeds upon the roots of the Life-Tree
Fenrir awaits the time to strike
 
The fetters will break
The Beast will run
Brother kills brother kills father kills son	

Yggdrasil shakes
Fires of Surtr consume it all burn it all away
What of the Father?
What of the Twelve?

Jotunheim groans
Dwarves gather for war in their halls of stone
What of the Aesir?
What of the Elves?
 
Eagle of pale beak
Wreaking destruction, ripping out the entrails of the weak
What of the Father?
What of the Twelve?
 
Hel's sword generates the sun
Crags topple, there's nowhere to run
What of the Aesir?
What of the Elves?
 
[Chorus]
 
We the Three
Weavers of the thread
Thy desire to transpire as we decree
 
In the momentary silence
The breath before the stand
The armies gather for judgement
By the Norns' unyielding hands
I tell you this All-Father
As fires scorch the skies
Not a moment's hesitation
The time has come to die
 
Odin falls to the Wolf
Freyr is slain by the Fire with a single stroke
What of the ages?
What of this place?
 
Watcher takes the Trickster's head
Torn asunder the Wolf lies bleeding dead
What of our vengeance?
What of our race?
 
Thunder strikes at the Snake
Both lie still in the deadly venom's wake
What of the ages?
What of this place?
 
Earth sinks in the sea, sky turns black,
Ragnarok, everything reduced to ash
What of our vengeance?
What of our race?

Servants Of Fate

Behold the winter     
Deafening ageless silence  
Behold the fury
Thy death is drawing near

Enter the long night
Hold fast thy fleeting hope now
Ensure survival
Embrace thy growing fear

Venture across the tundra 
Bearing the flame of life
My will my strength unbroken
Son of the north, son of the light

Scanning the vast horizon
A village gleaming bright
Invigorated with the promise that I'll sleep tonight 

Time slowed down as I drew near
Promise swiftly turned to fear
Town ablaze and death abound
Bodies strewn on blood-soaked ground

All those who lie before us
Too weak, laden with fright 
We'll take your goods, then take your life

Is there not one among you worthy of dying right?
Save face and dignity 
Draw steel, stand and fight


[Chorus]
Lord, son of the north
Raise up your war banners high 
Come, fulfill your oath
Fight for your kin
Fight to survive

The demon hordes surround us 
The sky ablaze at night
It’s time, rally and conquer
Summon our Nordic might

Came down with righteous fury
And power forged in hate
The northland wanderer
Spilled demon blood and rewrote fate 

Legend states this was the time
Free folk shattered the paradigm
One by one the dark ones fell
Ranks broke fleeing back to hell

[Chorus]

Across the plains traverse the hills 
Lost in the frigid sea
No fear of death the northland wanderer is free
With sword in hand and torch ablaze
Unleashed a battle cry
The northland wanderer leads all the free folk 
Heads held high

Die

Northland Wanderer

Tied in the lines of my oblique design
Wither in your embrace 
Defy; redefine the meaning of true sight
Suffer the weight of ageless silence
Blindness 

[Chorus]
Ring thy heart with steel
Pulling for the surface, blades dividing the rays
Ablaze with the fire to be 
Vanquished by the waves (vanquished by the waves)

Ocean in storm
Crushing grip of ice

By name, power, and right hand 
By phases of the ever-moving moon
Fickle as the snows of autumn 
Deadly as the deep still waters

Swirling seas, churning red
Apparition of godlike beauty 
Pull me under the frozen crimson waves
Wings embrace, flooded by sulfur
In the burning swirling tide
Buried by the night

[Chorus x2]
Extinguished

Go
Crystal shards of broken visions
Scarlet ribbons
Tapestry of crimson ribbons 
Broken visions 
Crystal shards of broken visions
Scarlet ribbons
Oh - death on flaxen wings

Swirling seas, churning red
Apparition of godlike beauty 
Pull me under the frozen crimson waves
Slivers of glass on perfect porcelain skin
Marked again, a harbinger of the end (vanquished by the waves)
Of the end

Ocean In Storm

Reason and faith feeding blood to the ground
Fortunes and lives to be buried and drowned
Superimposed over the last learned ignorance
Senses engaged across the next false brilliance

Evening shone in a silence fell
As the goddess knelt and the fire repelled
Broken shield in a frozen cage
When our instincts fled and adrenaline raged
Killing of time in a weighing of life
On the balance of souls in Osiris' rites
Fiction erased in a blaze of white

[Chorus]
I cannot see the stars that were promised to me
Sick with your pride
Why, shattering the mask of an evening’s disguise
An offering of dawn
An unbidden call

Take thy beak from my heart
Disregard the gray that time can't mend
Lost in our own minds
Naught you know of the songs that move us

Years turn our lies into truths - redacted fables
Invented to subvert the symbols 
We thought we created
Disquieting to feel their edges shaping

[Chorus] 

Cryptic phrase
Artifice lost in analytical haze
Patterns to wind the fraying ends of the rational
Ciphers to bind unchecked zeal of the radical

Fallacy wrought from the memory lost in sleep
Never to break from the trammeling shade of night
Radiance dimmed by a sufferance of deceit
Fiction erased in a blaze of white

[Chorus x2]
A warping of the key
Forever held in thrall

Fiction Erased

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