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Healer
07:02
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Cast out by those who fear her wisdom
Made a pariah with no cause
She knows the land and all its’ bounties
And lives at one with nature’s laws
Listen and hear the ancient call
Those who seek to know to find
Humanity will be its’ own downfall
If we can’t see through the healer’s eyes
Vile men keep her in chains of bondage
To keep her knowledge from the world
They consume all she has to offer
And offer nothing in return
Her banishment won’t be forever
At one point vile men cease to be
But there will always be the healer
To nurture, to create, to heal
Listen and hear the ancient call
Those who seek to know to find
Humanity will be its’ own downfall
If we can’t see through the healer’s eyes
If we can’t see through the healer’s eyes
If we can’t see through the healer’s eyes
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2. |
Torchbearer
05:56
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Shrouded in shadow
Consumed by grief
Fevered wailing for a life too brief
One figure steps forward
And ignites a flame
One by one others follow
To do the same
Heads bowed in mourning
They approach the hill and the pyre
where many before them have lain
all gathered waiting
for the call loud and shrill
Ignite the flame
Torchbearer
With fire raised
Torchbearer
Set the pyre ablaze
Torchbearer
Don’t turn away
Torchbearer
Ignite the flame
Embers are dying
And ash paints the air
Each flame flickers out
Til’ there’s just one left there
Alone on the hill
In the cold and the rain
Steadfast in his duty
The torchbearer remains
Heads bowed in mourning
They approach the hill and the pyre
where many before them have lain
all gathered waiting
for the call loud and shrill
Ignite the flame
Torchbearer
With fire raised
Torchbearer
Set the pyre ablaze
Torchbearer
Don’t turn away
Torchbearer
Ignite the flame
Heads bowed in mourning
They approach the hill and the pyre
where many before them have lain
all gathered waiting
for the call loud and shrill
Ignite the flame
Torchbearer
With fire raised
Torchbearer
Set the pyre ablaze
Torchbearer
Don’t turn away
Torchbearer
Ignite the flame
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3. |
Ruins
06:15
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Roofs are fallen walls are torn
Skilled ancient work of the highborn
The work of giants in decay
Undermined by old age
As these ruins fall quiet whispers leave the walls
They tell of tales of long ago
From steel and blood on ice and snow
Ravaged might by winds and time
Fate broke the mighty in their prime
One reign came and many gone
Non persisted through the years to come
As these ruins fall quiet whispers leave the walls
They tell of tales of long ago
From steel and blood on ice and snow
Into darkness all shall decay
Nothing will remain the same
Through raging winds and weeping skies
As ruins sit in the solitude of time
The ruin has fallen to the ground
broken into a thousand mounds
where at one time many a warrior
stood proud banners held high
Spires reaching for the sky
until fate changed the rules far and wide
Left are the perished and slain
When death took all the men away
What once was now is gone
The end will come for everyone
Like ruins through the mists of time
Life as we know will vanish from the light
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Aeons
06:53
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Time is a construct
To measure one’s own decay
But we’d sooner ignore it
And look the other way
The sands of time
Slip through our hands
Faded memories
Lost in the night
We misunderstand
Finally free
To ignore is to be blissful
Forget everything we’ve learned
Continue on our sordid path
And to the earth return
The sands of time
Slip through our hands
Faded memories
Lost in the night
We misunderstand
Finally free
The sands of time
Slip through our hands
Faded memories
Lost in the night
We misunderstand
Finally free
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5. |
The Old Ways
05:28
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The holy men came over the seas
Their sole purpose to bring us to our knees
With empty words and disdain
To replace the roots that sustained us
With the blight of their misfounded faith
Winds wail and flames be free
To scatter the ash of their lies
To the unyielding rage of the sea
Your new god
Holds no power over me
For mine are the old ways
And your ways are true blasphemy
Your arrogance to think you hold
The ability to bend nature’s will
To that of your own
You call us beasts but make trinkets of ancient trees
Only a weak minded fool would choose to live life on his knees
Winds wail and flames be free
To scatter the ash of their lies
To the unyielding rage of the sea
Your new god
Holds no power over me
For mine are the old ways
And your ways are true blasphemy
Winds wail and flames be free
To scatter the ash of their lies
To the unyielding rage of the sea
Your new god
Holds no power over me
For mine are the old ways
And your ways are true blasphemy
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6. |
Initivm
05:35
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Raised by the eternal night
Born from darkness of the sky
Covering the earth with her black life
Coldness covers our blinded eyes
Masked with scourge, ruin of all
Blinding visions of my fall
Endless trail to emptiness
Born from the plagued abyss
Drifting through the loss of sight
This numbness covers my mind
Once concealed in eternal realms
I witness now my living hell
Confined within this treason of life
Broken mind in which to reside
In which to reside
Condemned to writhe eternally
In damnation of what I see
This is my burden this is my plight
Inciting hateful fires of spite
Masked with scourge, ruin of all
Blinding visions of my fall
Once concealed in eternal realms
I witness now my living hell
Confined within this treason of life
Broken mind in which to reside
Once concealed in eternal realms
I witness now my living hell
Confined within this treason of life
Broken mind in which to reside
Upon the buried tales of woe
Behold the incantation of shadows
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7. |
Raven Dawn
05:39
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I must go on
I pray for dawn
I must go on
I pray for dawn
Sleep eludes me
Yet the visions are clear
A raven, dark and sleek
Screams its’ message in my ear
The door is open
I endeavour to step through
My mind, awoken
The only voice I answer to
And yet I pause
In fear of what’s to come
I’ve lost myself and cannot find
A place to dwell within my mind
I must go on
I pray for dawn
Darkness holds me
And it will not loose its’ grasp
The raven, dark and sleek
Stares at me and laughs
The door is closing
And the light does not shine through
My heart, unknowing
Seeks the answers I once knew
And yet I wait
And remember all I’ve done
I’ve lost myself and cannot find
A place to dwell within my mind
I must go on
I pray for dawn
Pride propels me
Ego pushes at my back
The raven, dark and sleek
Circles and attacks
The door, behind me
My past self, fades away
My soul, ignited
As I face the coming day
And now I see
And embrace what I’ve become
I’ve lost myself and cannot find
A place to dwell within my mind
I must go on
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8. |
On Stranger Shores
06:51
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Leaving what was known
Through the endless sea
What’s on the other side
Of my haunting dreams
Voices called me through the night
With promises of bliss
The exit to my life
a long desired wish
The promise of tomorrow
The promise to reach the shores
Ancient calls lead to my spiritual home
While the ocean roars
It shall not end – it shall not end
Until we reach the eternal land
Floating endlessly through the sea
Through the fluidity of dreams
A world known only in dreams
Not for many to see
Spirits for eternal life
Where nature is still free
The night shade makes the world afraid
And there’s no escape
Roaming the unknown
And navigation gone
The promise of tomorrow
The promise to reach the shores
Ancient calls lead to my spiritual home
While the ocean roars
It shall not end – it shall not end
Until we reach the eternal land
Floating endlessly through the sea
Through the fluidity of dreams
A leap into the dark began
Our journey from afar
Across the ancient sea
prophetic imagery
Far beyond our measured time
Our souls blind to the other side
As I entered these shores of hope
And neared the travels end
I saw a foreboding omen
Of a darkness that descends
The promise of tomorrow
The promise to reach the shores
Ancient calls lead to my spiritual home
While the ocean roars
It shall not end – it shall not end
Until we reach the eternal land
Floating endlessly through the sea
Through the fluidity of dreams
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9. |
Farewell
06:28
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Everything we know must end
Even the brightest light will fade
It makes no sense to pretend
Things can’t be any other way
Don’t shed a tear for me
For I’m not gone
Don’t lie awake in grief
Life continues on
With the coming night
My truth to tell
Ever onwards towards the light
This is my farewell
Accept your fate and you will see
That life though brief is all we have
To face death is to be free
To fear it is to never truly live
Don’t shed a tear for me
For I’m not gone
Don’t lie awake in grief
Life continues on
With the coming night
My truth to tell
Ever onwards towards the light
This is my farewell
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WOLF COUNSEL
Originally a brainchild of the 1990s WOLF COUNSEL finally came into existence in 2014 when two veteran musicians merged their enthusiasm for monumental low-tuned music and a great appreciation of heavy riffs into a new band drawing influences from everything that's HEAVY and SLOW. ... more
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