Bal Sagoth Naked Steel (the Warrior`s Saga) Lyrics

Naked Steel (the Warrior`s Saga) Lyrics

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: 
Blades aflame with witch-fire burning, 
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 slaugther! 
THE ORACLE OF WAR: Never sweet the kiss of cold steel... 
 
THE SHAMAN`S DECREE: 
Born beneath the thrice-cursed cromlech (destined for deeds of greatness), 
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 steel shall meet all
who dare stand against me! My destiny awaits... I shall carve my path in
carnage, and inscribe my saga upon 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-bands as a trophy of battle...