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 SUIDAKRA LYRICS
 
 
  
 "Emprise To Avalon" (2002)
 
 1. Darkane Times
 2. Dinas Emrys
 3. Pendragons Fall
 4. The Highking
 5. The Spoils of Annwn
 6. The Quest
 7. And the Giants Dance...
 8. Song of the Graves
 9. Still the Pipes Are Calling
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1. Darkane Times
 
 Myrddin:
 Now the seal is broken
 which captured all misery
 while dark hands of fate
 fulfilled the augury
 
 The script of this tragedy
 Now lies in my hands
 I read the lines, realize the signs
 how the story ends
 
 The High King is dead
 struck by his vision
 greater than men
 It`ll spread out through time... an eternal rhyme
 - sic transit gloria mundi -
 
 A challenge between darkness and light
 Medraut and his clansmen of terror
 A discordant soul burnt the seed
 with voices of blight
 
 Take my hand I`ll be your guide
 On the battlefield of wrath
 Read my mind I´ll show you the light
 Birth of a vision sealed by your death
 
 I am Taliesin
 with swordlike words
 the rhyme for reason
 and truth against the world
 
 Solo: Arkadius
 
 I am Merlin
 a fiction
 with chanting spells
 a herold of fate
 
 I am Myrddin
 the link to reality
 a sage, a wizard
 an everlasting mystery
 
 A threefold existence in a darkane time
 I am now and forever
 A futile persistance between me and life
 Lasting since auld lang syne...
 
 
 
 
 2. Dinas Emrys
 
 Myrddin:
 Hear my words Earl of Gwent
 I am the fatherless one
 Drain the lake and rouse the dragons
 Take my blood
 Yon stronghold will never stand
 
 For the hour of doom is rung
 See the dragons rise into the air
 They`ll be figting sore and long
 For a wise man will come to take the crown
 
 When even the house
 Of romulus fell
 His final fate
 No seer can foretell
 
 There`s a greater place
 Beyond the realms of lethe
 There`s a flaming trace in our heart
 When a memory becomes myth
 
 
 
 
 3. Pendragons Fall
 
 Myrddin:
 Oh, remembering the words
 The vision of the sage
 He summoned all the heathen breed
 A black hearts dream of a new age
 
 Taint and vicious life he cried
 Strongest of his kind
 Shattered by a fateful might
 A carnal spell devoured his fiery mind
 
 Distrust and treason
 The strong will survive
 Is no virtue of reason
 While the whole land is moaning
 Oh, who`s worth to be king
 
 Revange! Hunt the king of Cornwall down
 The troops will march
 For they adore the cauldron
 All is fading to ashes, turning to war
 
 Oh, all you woeful warriors
 For yon weakness`ll never be strength
 Cold and fearless you adore
 The lies of a madman right till the end
 
 And in a night of roaming shadows
 With a spell on his face
 He seduced the unaware widow
 Oh what murderous embrace
 So fate took its course
 With less rhyme than reason
 War and hate
 Will bear brighter days
 
 The night passed
 Its crown to the king of dawn
 This dream will last
 Till the day
 This new kingdom will come
 
 
 
 
 4. The Highking
 
 Arthur:
 I am the boar
 I took the head of bran
 Which kept the land so secure
 So hunt the godless
 Heathen host
 And dignity improves our valor
 
 Rise all you honest warriors
 Close the lines - fight with one hand
 Life is short and memories`ll last
 Fate itself cast us into war
 
 Years and tears of war have passed
 Camelot grew out of blood
 Truth and virtue reign side by side
 The night passed into light
 But not in my mind...
 
 Medrawt:
 I am the shadow of discord
 The void of lust
 Unaware begot in sin
 The nameless lord of distrust
 
 The shades`ll grow stronger
 Tainting all your joyful minds
 A coward creeping enemy
 Silently strikes you blind
 
 Arthur:
 Dark Lord of Orkney, scourge of lot
 My song of doom is also thine
 Caliburn`s my strength, Gwynhwyvar my shield
 My fate and task lays beyond time
 
 
 
 
 5. The Spoils of Annwn
 
 Am I not worthy of fame and song for ever,
 In the four-cprnerend castle in the island of the
 strong door,
 Where twighlight and pitchy darkness meet together,
 And bright wine is the drink of the host ?
 Thrice enough to fill Arthur`s ship we crossed the
 waters.
 None but seven returned from the castle of the
 rulers,
 None but seven returned from Caer Rigor.
 
 I allow the kings of the story little honour
 That beyond the glass castle saw not the prowess of
 Arthur.
 Three-score hundrets arrayed along those ramparts
 With their watchmen we could scarce confer.
 Thrice enough to fill Prydwen we went with Arthur.
 None but seven returned from the castle of treasure,
 None but seven returned from Caer Colur
 
 I will not allow much praise to those of drooping
 courage.
 They know not on what day the ruler arose,
 Nor in what hour of the serene day the owner was
 born,
 Nor of what kind was his silver-headed beast.
 Ah, when we went with Arthur, mournful the memory,
 None but seven returned from Caer Ochren
 
 
 
 
 6. The Quest
 
 Arthur:
 Still the giants dance
 at salisbury plain
 Still my spirit wanders
 to reach this higher aim
 
 Straight to foreign shores of distance
 we call the gods
 for a quest of truth and wisdom
 
 As long as you see the giants dance
 My spirit wanders through the land
 
 Gwalchmei:
 Led by the strength of bran
 and the timeless kings of Avalon
 The four winds of the land
 I will strive for the caldron
 
 Bedwyr:
 Led by the swiftness of winds
 I will wander through the farest glens
 My sentence is my deed
 Is there a view of sense unknown?
 
 Arthur:
 Craving for some armament to outlast
 this cold royal path
 I can hear them call
 The king must fall
 
 Strayed by the four winds
 Over the land and far away
 through the dark and cold
 Hear my song of grief
 but there`s a tune that gone astray
 while the world grow old
 
 Menw:
 Each tone that ever met the wind
 finally reaches Math and so me
 sight and breathless I am
 believe and trust is a value for the weak
 
 
 
 
 7. And the Giants Dance...
 
 Through the unnatural silence rose a moan,
 As if from the very Earth itself.
 As it rose in volume it also rose in pitch,
 Until it was clear that it issued from the
 Standing stones of Salisbury plain.
 Inoxarably the sounds crescendoed into the
 Shrieking wail of the druids.
 While they turned to stone...
 
 
 
 
 8. Song of the Graves
 
 Arthur:
 "Shades`ll grow stronger"
 a dark voice calls
 out of the past
 
 Minds too weak
 to with stand
 to divide higher thoughts
 from barren lies
 
 Here I stand on the plain
 while dark forces gather around me
 hear the lament of the corvine goddess
 a sullen croon of my destiny
 
 The air resounds
 a song of doom
 all is lost
 only cairns will last
 Oh they`ll remain
 as a mute testemony
 to the valor of men
 who proudly defied the will of fate
 led by a vision to a bitter end
 
 Come on - you creatures
 of war and hate
 leader of the weak
 taste the steel of my blade
 Stouthearted I stand
 face to face with the darker side of mine
 well aware of my decline
 
 M y r d d i n:
 So here the story ends
 with trembly letters
 On this fateful script
 the kings herald brought to me
 Misery is a child of bliss
 and so the circles close
 to finally vanish into a
 haze of mystery
 
 All this I witnessed
 and even more
 as time passed by
 I saw the sons of romolns fall
 the one god rise
 and coldness survive
 
 ANOETH BID BET Y ARTHUR
 (A secret The Grave Of Arthur)
 
 
 
 
 9. Still the Pipes Are Calling
 
 A nameless warrior:
 So long he is gone
 With a pale servile face
 His way led him through
 A cold bloody haze
 
 His yell pierced the cold ghastly morning
 As he raised his sword to fight evil
 
 So like millions before
 He died in his gore
 And those who survived
 Died in their minds
 For those who failed to care
 Were dead before
 Who loves his sword even loves war
 
 Four children he left behind
 With a mournin`mother
 All their dreams return nevermore
 Their world got lost - killed in war
 
 There on the field, with dew on his eyes
 His empty face stared up to the sky
 One final breath curses his foes
 No blessing for his beloved ones
 
 
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