Midnight bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk Mountains echo, curfews bell, signal tasks They place faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as Grendel stalks the
Earth rim seeks his meals the funeral pyres The shapers songs no heal the fear Within eyes, their eyes
Wooden figures, gods, stare blindly cross the sea Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviors of dreams know their lives are forfeit now, priestly heads they bow in shame They cannot face the crowd that flinch in Grendel's name
rim walker seeks his meals Prepare the funeral The shapers no longer heal the fear Within their eyes, eyes eyes, their eyes, their eyes
As Grendel leaves his home beneath the stagnant mere the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear He knows victory is secured, his charm will testify His claws will drip mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky
As Grendel leaves his mossy home the stagnant mere Along the forest path he roams to hall so clear He knows that is secured, his charm will testify His claws will drip with mortal blood, as haunt the sky
Earth rim walker his meals the funeral pyres The shapers songs no longer heal the Within their hearts, within their Within their hearts, within their
membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew Denizens of twilight lands beg him through Mother bastard child, shunned by leaf and stream An alien in an alien land, seeks within dreams
The shapers lies his poisoned tongue malign mocking harp queen, her innocence offends his icy heart
Hounds freeze in bewitched by the reptile spell Sulfurous essence 'round the grassy dell Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butcher's Stellular heavens ignore even children's
are his music, lightning his guide Raping the darkness, death by his
Chants rise in terror, free the oaken beams Flickering firelight portraying the scene advance, prepare for the nightmare foe Futile their sacrifice as their hearts must know
delusions with feet in the grave Lurker at the He cares not for the He not for the brave
So you thought that your bolts and your would keep me out You should have known better after all this You're gonna pay in blood for all vicious slander With your ugly pale skins and your putrid eyes
Why should I feel pity when you kill your own and no shame? God's on my side, as hell, I'm gonna take no blame I'm gonna take no blame, I'm goin' to take no
So you say you believe in all of mother laws You lust for gold with sharpened knives Ooh, your hoards are gathered and your enemies left to rot You pray with your bloodstained hands at the feet of pagan gods
Then you try to the killers blade in my hand You call for justice and the truth Well, I've had of all your pretty, pretty speeches Receive your punishment, your throats to my righteous claws And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, and let the blood And let the flow, and let the blood flow
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