Lyrics - Naked Steel (the Warrior's Saga) by Bal-sagoth

Legends etched into the ancient stone dolmens on the
Dark
Moors...
THE
ORACLE
OF
WAR:
The crows will pick your bones clean...
Never sweet the kiss of cold steel.
THE
EXULTATION
OF
BATTLE...
THE
WARRIOR:
Bright swords blessed by nine king's blood,
The elf-witch weaves war-spells upon us,
Neath the wolf-moon's gaze we shall slake our steel!
THE
WARRIOR:
Battle
Magic empowers my thews!
THE
ORACLE
OF
WAR:
The crows will pick your bones clean...
THE
WARRIOR:
Red-
Tooth thirsts to smite and slaughter!
THE
ORACLE
OF
WAR:
Never sweet the kiss of cold steel...
THE
SHAMAN'
S
DECREE:
Three stars aligned to assauge thine newborn cries,
Foretold, the hilt of
Red-
Tooth awaits thine hand(kingdoms shall fall before thee!),
And in the
Nine
Scrolls thine death prophesized.
THE
WARRIOR:
The clarion of battle beckons me...
Red-
Tooth crackles with searing spectral energy.
Aye, emperors and kings shall perish beneath my blade!
The head of the
Eastern
Chieftan adorns my spear...
I've a throne to usurp!
Into the thick of the fray!
THE
SHAMAN'
S
DECREE:
This heart that pounds like a hammer,
This heart that pounds so strong,
This heart that pumps a great warrior's blood,
This heart will pound for half as long.
THE
WARRIOR'
S
VOW:
By all the gods...
I swear the ireful edge of dwarf-forged steelshall meet all who dare stand against me!
My destiny awaits...
I shall carve my path in carnage, and inscribe my sagaupon the scrolls of legendry in the spilled blood of slaughtered kings!
THE
ORACLE
OF
WAR:
Carnage!
And the crows shall feast upon the eyes of the slain!
The final dolmen of the
Dark
Moors is mysteriously missing,believed removed thousands of years ago by troll war-bandsas a trophy of battle...

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