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When Rides The Scion Of The Storms Lyrics

DOVER, ENGLAND: SEPTEMBER 1594
(THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A WAR-WEARY
MARINER)

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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
Atlantis
sank 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 centuries
before 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
ring
gloriously against the cutlasses of the outlander
pirates!
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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...