Album: Legend Demo: The Winds of the Earth
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Album: Legend Demo: The Winds of the Earth
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LegendShadowlove Winter grips the frozen land Alone dwell man and woman In vain his wife did pray him from the hunt at home to stay 'Twas then she got the necklace, 'twas then the stranger came "You are the one, you are my soul You are my love, forevermore The endless sky, our home shall make When darkness falls, we shall awake" Calling for her to go with him Afraid, she chooses to stay within At length the stranger left her, soon the husband did return 'Twas then he smashed the necklace, 'twas then his anger burned "Out into the darkness fled, sylvan walls and snow-made bed, By the moon I still can see him standing there, he calls to me Up into the starry sky, son of Moon and new-found bride Forever shall we rule the eve, as shadow-wife and son of dreams" Still, winter grips the frozen wood There still he dwells, alone he broods In sorrow turned to wolfen form And still to moon for lost bride calls By the Light of a Winter's Moon Ro gab uacht etti en Aigre re e mo scel 'Twas late one autumn evening when the traveler did arrive A wizened old man with blue-grey wisdom in his eyes Down he sat, by the fire and sipped at spiced ale Pulled his cloak close about him so began his tale By fallen oak, beneath the sky The eldest sleeping giants lie And on their graves they're dancing still With mortal dreams beneath the hills When I was young, one winter morn I came upon A barrow in the forest which seemed as old as moon and sun Nine times 'round the ancient hill Willows watching silent, still the light is fading Another world behind our own Which my mortal eyes beheld Never before had I beheld such sylvan grace What dreams compare with the magic of this place? Forgotten beauty of the gods we know no more Which haunt the forests and hills forevermore Behind the wind you cannot see The secrets of eternity But with the sight you too shall know The dreams of men and which way blows the wind With sylph-like graces the dance among The eldest pines, by golden sun Would you live forever within this place? 'Tis not true, you cannot be To dance beneath the moon and darkness embrace What madness this has come to me? You shall be the last to come to our world When Wayland forged my mortal soul Our court is growing weak and shall not return 'Twas not meant that I should know "My staff has giants killed, my bag a long knife carries To cut meat-pies from children's thighs and feed them to the fairies" Thus The Rhymer spoke to me as Oberon sat watching The mortal ones drink silver blood, their lives so briefly passing into night And so it was they left me, to meet again nevermore And somehow my soul now empty, as though I had seen not before The time of their passing has come, to live among men nevermore But still their music haunts me, and so shall be evermore By the fires dying embers so his tale concludes In the stillness of nightfall, by the light of a cold winter's moon At the Temple of Artemis / The Forever Dream by Dave Belliville Villages below me wait As moonlight fills the nighttime sky Melding with the night -- my mate, Part of the ancient darkness, I I have watched while weary walls Recede from palace to decay Every night the hunger calls, Seducing me 'til break of day Neath Mountain Sleep When dragons danced among the hills And wretched wights were walking still A legend born onto the one The wizard came to claim her son A sovereign right in blood preserved The sword and stone to seal the word Like wind-kept secrets whispered o'er So too shall live forevermore By the crimson setting sun in the icy autumn air The king stands waiting, watching nature's sylvan tears Upon the water play, set like multicolored jewels By the fading light of day Lo! Behold the sword of kings the lady does wield Of which the willows sing by harvest moon to barren fields Honor is my life Show unto the world your destiny and lead the way Wits be my guide Bring unto the world so they may see where shadows play I shall not fall 'Tis both kings and beggars destiny: to Death shall fall Then Death shall die So Death he found, in battle met A struggle which likes shall ne'er be seen For thirteen moons their weapons set Yet to eithers vantage none could see The forest gawked and the Sidh did watch To see who would the victor be 'Twas wyrds way that on that day Death began to tire Mercy he did cry to be spared immortal fire Mercy plea cannot ignore So Death goes free to hunt once more So it was that Death was nigh destroyed And the king he lived on And let to roam free To bring order to the land When goblins still hunted And his name carried o're And the moon mothered dreams 'Til to Death he fell at last When dragons danced aming the hills And wretched wights were walking still A legend born unto the one The wizard came to claim her son Alone he sleeps in earthen womb The forest floor his silken tomb By trumpet call, so legend says One day to rise once again A Midsummer's Dance (Instrumental) Odin's Ride Bitter the winds, winter winds, freeze the earth Empty the sky frozen by winter's frost Strong is the sea taught to be by the wind So lead the hearts, father of all of men In the olden days, when the earth was young, the one-eyed god, upon his throne Set out to ride across the sky to see what courage men would find Let brave men live among the gods By white-armed Valkyrs carried o'er The battlefield to hero's home To where their honor shall be done So out he rides to heavens hunt, The Huntsman comes The mortals stare in wonder at the mighty host And their mortal blood begins to warm with the passion they had lost North winds calling, live young forever mortal fears pass away Seasons of ice shall not chill a warrior's blood valiant ones shall be saved True warriors, come to me live eternal in this land My kingdom, you shall see what becomes of a life with a glorious end What wonders shall behold by the setting of the sun Your virtue honored here while the men on the earth sing the deeds you have done Dark visions shall haunt the living ones Whom hide in cowardice as you drink with the gods from your enemies skull Ethereal splendors be thy bride Each morning born again, in the greyness of dawn into battle you ride So men did hear him, their armour they donned Set down their plows and lifted their swords For glory and honor they set out to fight To see who'd be taken with glory that night And the bravest were taken, as had been foretold To feast each evening, each day to fight again Soon the men forgot the courage that their father brought unto them that night They took the plow again, from disease and age to die instead without hope of deeds in battle done So to this day heroes in the heavens play Watching the world, waiting for our courage to return Evening Sun Dreams bourne up by the breath of the moon And bathed in silvery light Asleep are her children lying upon beds of stone Where stands the silent and still whispering ones Beware the beast with a thousand eyes and yet we are safe here for it is blind Shadows play, the time has come to dance to the tune of the Evening Sun Enthralled, blue and green dance with white Within the colour of black, endless night Watched by wishes and dreams long since past And turn, spinning in thrice, without rest Amidst each river and sylvan glen are creatures far wiser, unknown to men Gods of old, in ancient tounge pipe out the tune of the Evening Sun That which was before shall be again And still lives between stars and within The mountains, where it awaits all our fears And that which is never seen, ever near Far stranger moons have seen the sky when shadows were walking and could not die Dance with spirits with silver blood the Dragon is sleeping, but not undone Lament the fallen moon with vanity swollen the Dragon's womb Shadows whisper, your time will come to dance to the tune of the Evening Sun
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The Winds of the EarthIntro "In those strange old times, when fantastic dreams and madmen's reveries were realized among the actual circumstances of life, two persons met together at an appointed hour and place..." From 'The Hollow of the Three Hills' by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hollow of the Three Hills "Sorrow fills my heart with a weight I cannot away Speak to me of the land whence I came and the fate Of the ones I have lost forevermore Give me this news, though I sleep forevermore" The chill beauty of an autumnal sunset falls O'er these three hills twixt which the hollow forms Here, two persons meet, one a lady young and fair And an aged crone, withered with despair "Not from my lips, mayst thou here the news you seek But sit by this stagnant pool, as my spell is weaved" The wind turns to whispers of an aged man and his dying bride They speak of a daughter who brought them shame and sorrow Till the day they die The vision then dwindles to the air from which it formed The voices melt, and the sound returns Of the wind sweeping mournfully through the autumn leaves And the lady still is kneeling in the hollow between the three The sun is lost behind the trees, darkness grows ever near "Cover thy face quickly, we've yet much more to hear" Once more the hag weaves her spell Again the voices rise to bring their tidings to the dell Cries of mirth and sorrow mix to form a raging sea In which one solemn voice speaks of his wife's perfidy Even as he spoke, his voice was lost behind the chaos Of laughter and tortured cries, in misery forevermore The wind flows once more across the hollow's floor "There is one more I'd hear," "Then sit, for night draws near" The ancient prayer twists once more beneath the spell And in the distance grows the knelling of a bell The wind gently shakes the edges of the coffin pall The mourners whisper against the one who left her child Sadly round the hollows verge the wind blows Where the witch cackles and the lady lies cold The Winds of the Earth Darkness falls as the pale light drapes o'er the silent earth Dying shadows wither, into nothing they return No heat is cast from a fading sun, just an eerie glow of red The wind stirs through the forest to awaken me from my slumber once again Slowly I rise into the autumn air, leaving my grave behind I now behold the fading land, doomed to wither and die, For the sun shall never arise... The features of the earth cast their solemn stare As I begin my passage to the lair Where no mortal shall ever lay his eyes, To the boundless reaches beyond the sky Light drifts away to other lands, destiny takes hold my soul in unseen hands Soaring o'er the sleeping earth, which waits in darkness for my return An endless sea of hidden worlds lies in front of me And cosmic tides sing the song of what's been and what's to be Giants wander an endless path, captives of the sun, So shall it be till fates release into nevermore Shall I find my destiny within this sea of eternity? Heaven eludes my wandering soul, which cries for peace in the hall of gods Hope guides my hand through the darkness before me And angels call my name from the shores of forever Light flows into nothingness, Consumed by the great darkness in the sky A flowing sorrow, imbibing life into its somber depths, It calls for my lost soul A swirling mass of crystal light fails in forever, A peaceful, silent flicker within the never A thousand barren worlds doth cry in a spiritless, astral sleep, Forgotten in the never-ending sea Along the web of wyrd, I travel to my fate Back to my earthen tomb, where my icy stone awaits O' never shall sun the morrow see When I find undying paradise and my eternity... Mourn the Sunrise Morning fills the autumn air, mist retreats my sylvan lair Sunlight warms this ancient wood, the melody of life renewed Whispers haunt the winds of the forest and the depths of my heart Mystic dreams call out from the hollows and murmuring streams The splendor of the dawn pervades, deep within the mountain shade Casting its unearthly spell till blessed eve retells its tale Tranquil skies cover the heavens and tears in my eyes On this knoll I sit 'neath the limbs of a dark, brooding oak Whispers haunt the shadowy eve and the depths of my heart Mystic dreams call out from the heavens and eternity... In Death's Shadow Seas of light ebb away, forms of figures melt away The timeless night rises once more, illumination withers, dead evermore Evoke the gloom, dwell among the immortal ones Sleep endlessly, the land overcast in misery See the ones who dwell without the sun, frozen in their sorrow The dawn is dead, so rises our world, forsaken life without a soul For countless ages, devoid of hope to exist within the world In evening rise, when all life sleeps, dead for eternity Left to suffer in dismal woe Summon the lost ones, recall them from beyond the gates To the sphere of reality Wither away in silent kingdoms lost from day In the bleak domain life cannot see Obscured in this hidden layer, spiritless realm of forgotten lore No way to save our souls, dwindle away to nevermore Undying lands that I can see, clouded for eternity Frigid with unending woe of the ones who can only hope to be Stagnant decay, in the empire of the forgotten, dreams fade away Darkness fades as the light breaks anew Shadows die as the brilliance shines through These miserable creatures fade with the gloom Awaiting their time for once more to rule Obscured in this hidden lair, spiritless realm of forgotten lore No way to save our souls, dwindle away to nevermore Forever lurking in death's shadow, eternal sorrow of the eve Never to awaken, never to be free Nevermore Dying trees reach towards the lifeless sky Ancient, twisted figures, await their time to die Hills roll on forever, misery fills the air Here the gods of yesterday rot in their despair Centuries lie forgotten in this land of bitter cold The silent dead surround me as I suffer all alone See the crystal darkness, my soul is locked within I am not alive or dead, I simply do not exist I dwell in this forest of faceless souls Draining all life which dares to behold The bleak, lifeless landscape, shrouded in gray Covered in mist to block out the day Hallows old conceal, the pain which cannot die Separate from reality, frozen into time Why am I forever damned to live amongst the trees? Release me from this agony through eternal sleep Only a shadow realm, forgotten by time Lost in sorrow, not dead yet not alive Victim of the forest, like thousands before Trapped forever, I sleep nevermore The Autumn King My heart grows weary of traveling o'er forsaken lands, twisted and dark I long to see my home once more, and soon, by fate, I shall return Cataracts did haunt me as I roamed through lands so cold The winds spoke through the trees and vowed that I would return... "Life shall save the autumn king, unburdened by mortality When shines bright the crystal moon, to his throne he shall return" Thy peace now before me, I return I feel it grow nearer, and smell the home-fires burning Smoke wafts towards the sky Like fallen angels by the sun's dying light Twilight hangs in the autumn sky, pines silhouette the eve Their dark figures ride the edge of eternity My fate to be, my destiny, a story told since ages old Moonlight filters through the trees, it climbs the sky on ancient wings Locked in its ethereal tomb, its light guiding my return My home draws nearer as darkness drops its pall Winter winds blow through the paling fall Shadows play on my heart, of memories old and worn Of times when I dwelt where I now return Peace now fills my tired soul, mortal cares no longer known My heart is free from winter's cold grasp, the dawn of forever is at hand "Sit atop your oaken throne and rule the eve forevermore Sleep and dream, 'o mighty king, for here ends your suffering Ancient dreams haunt the shade, and in the shadows mortals play Here shall dwell your court divine, immortal past the end of time" Fall plays in the cool air, and burn the fires sweet Of my lair, free from sorrow, where we live, alone Within forever's boundless walls, and the moon hangs in the sky Crystal, forever, destined never to die "Autumn reigns forever, in the vale of kings Where the moon casts its spell, unbroken, Where the eve's soft breezes sing" So Sleeps the Dawn The past fades to nothing, consumed by eternity The future to drown in sorrow, and return to obscurity I can save your timeless soul, you shall live beyond the world In eternal lands with endless seas, beyond what is mortality Hear forever calling, far away, from the sea of darkness arises immortality Above the realm of passing time, where we are never to die "Take me from this mortal plane, to eternity Where our hearts shall live as one in immortal eve..." Lay down and sleep, and forever you shall dream Of life without end, to be frozen for all time to be Slowly flowing streams of red caress your soft white flesh The life drains from your body and your soul is laid to rest Silent in your slumber, now a rose frozen in time And together we shall live amongst the heavens o'er the sky Save the one, so that we may live together in a land without the sun Upon our love shall arise a world without need of flesh and blood Let me close your eyes and together we shall fly away To a land of crystal forests, silent, still, without decay I feel the warmth slowly draining from your flesh Your souls takes flight among the stars in endlessness Your beauty cast o'er boundless spans, like a shadow We'll dwell together in the land of tomorrow Now I lay to sleep so that we may live among the gods So sleeps the dawn, in crystal form, frozen still forevermore Shall Weep No Longer (Instrumental)