Lyrics - When Rides The Scion Of The Storms by Bal-sagoth

DOVER,
ENGLAND:
SEPTEMBER 1594(
THE
RECOLLECTIONS
OF
A
WAR-
WEARY
MARINER)???
MEMORIES
OF
DEATH
AND
LIFE...
For countless thousands of centuries
I have walked the earth...
I have seen endless battle,
And untold centuries of slaughter.
I am reborn once more!
The same grim spirit once again given flesh...
O' to be ravished by the seductress death...
The
Scion of the
Storms:
Dethroned 'ere
Atlantis fell, haunted by a dark queen's curse,
My son's soul shackled by this spell of endless death and grim rebirth.
Fly, o' skyborne steed of
Lyonesse, ride the tempest's wings,
I am the scion of the vengeful skies, a god to warriors and kings!
REFLECTIONS
ON
LIFETIMES
OF
CARNAGE:
I have been slain by
Roman gladius,
And by
Norman spear dealt a mortal wound,
The threads of my ensorcelled destiny
Endlessly woven on some unknown cosmic loom.
I have lost my life to longbow shafts
Fighting for the
English crown,
And mayhap
I'll end this mariner's life
A good three score fathoms down!
I marched with vast armies 'ere gleaming
Atlantissank beneath the waves...
I reddened my blade against
Caesar's legions long ago...
I stood beside
Boudicca at
Colchester...
I dealt honed steel death from the ranks of
Arthur
Pendragon...
I slew and looted gloriously at
Lindisfarne...
I slaked my scramasax at
Maldon...
I crossed blades with
Brian
Boru at
Clontarf...
I slaughtered left and right with
Harold at
Hastings...
I dispatched
Norman swordsmen with
Robin of
Loxley...
I wielded a
Claymore at
Stirling
Bridge...
I was in the thick of the fray beside
Henry at
Agincourt...
I spilled blood for the
White
Rose at
Bosworth
Field...
I captained a galleon against the great
Armada of
Philip
II...
I have witnessed the rise of corrupt religions,but my heathen blade was red countless centuriesbefore their flaccid laws were ever carved in stone.
They call me the
Scourge of
Medina
Sedonia...my ship sails at dawn, and may our
English steel ringgloriously against the cutlasses of the outlander pirates!???have written for me in the stars...but the gods have decreed that this is the path
I must follow,and
I am sure that my adventures are far from over...

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