The Witch-tower Of Vshanaad Lyrics

The Witch-tower Of Vshanaad lyrics

[music & lyrics Thegn Damieus]







Above swelling seas of blackness



Dark crags tower in funeral silence



Grim buzzards soar and circle



As charnel beacons to dreaded lands



Rise from stone a forlorn tower



Hidden by towers of timbers exalted



Shimmering in the wan of light of the moon



Like an eidolon drifting betwixt lonely mausolea







The dwelling of the wretched crone-enthroned over deep waters



Perched atop horned scarps-the vicinage of Vshanaad



A promontory haunted-a twisted tower dire



A ancient witch and blind- Vaentella







The sightless hag greets her guest



As a strange silhouette descends from the night



'Tis the monstrous crow feared as Kroln



Burdened with a dormant shape







And so the twaine doth remove



to the nether-vaults below



With the sleeper bound in net



an orphan seized by Kroln!







Cobwebs arass the chamber- so cluttered with ornaments



Crucibles of tomb-dust froth- cruses and vials bubble



Cauldrons boil a fetid brew- wherein limbs of infants stew



Impedimenta of black arts- devotion to the Nether-Guild







The dreaming child awakes, fettered to a bed of stone



"Her orbs will fit exquisitely", Vaentella opines to the crow



The eyelids of the girl sewn back with the web of worm



How lovely are her eyes... such a prize to the blind







Vaentella procures anon a tool, an ensorcelled hook of horn



Remove the frightened stare from her face, rape the sense of sight



The heart of the child abducted, so loathsomely pecked out by Kroln



Drain the steaming red, flood the witch's hollow sockets







"I shall be whole once again..."



The black bird seemed to laugh



As the thunder clapped outside



For the gleaming spheres had been set



And the blind witch could then see



Through the glare of another



Aggrandized by necromancy



Her visitas took a new shade



"I can spy beyond the sight!"







Vaentella stands enthralled



Atop forsaken Vshanaad



Glaring through cascading rain



Able to see the oldest secrets







For now the trees are won't to whisper



And the seas tell forgotten tales



The skies quoth the unremembered



And strange constellations intimate the unknown



Now an infinity of knowledge



Forever shall unfold







Peer through the yawning gulfs of antiquity



And the chasms of archaic wisdom



Now an infinity of knowledge



Forever shall unfold...