Hmmmmmmm…

Miklagard… the Great City burns

These hands that carved toys for my son

Now grip an axe grown heavy with ghosts

The purple walls weep Greek fire

We came as wolves seeking gold

But I see only widows now

Their cries sound like my mother’s prayers

When father never returned from the waves

OOOOO-din… why do you test me?

BLOOOO-ded gold tastes of ash

My BROOO-thers fall like autumn leaves

The RAAAA-ven’s feast grows cold

Varangian guardsmen - our own kinsmen

Their Norse blood spills on Byzantine stone

Brother against brother for emperor’s coin

While merchants grow fat on our bones

I remember my farm… barley in spring

Now I plant corpses in foreign soil

The priests promised glory and silver

But deliver only flies and sorrow

HUN-HUN-HUN (strike!)

GAH-GAH-GAH (shield!)

Blood for blood! (BLOOD!)

Death for death! (DEATH!)

The eagle spreads its wings!

Tomorrow we breach the sea walls again

How many tomorrows have I stolen?

From Greek boys who’ll never know love

From fathers who’ll never see harvest

My beard grows grey with other men’s tears

This siege has made corpses of us all

Some still breathing, some feeding crows

But dead men, every one

HOOOOO-me… across the whale-road

COOOO-ld… are the northern lights

My SOOOO-ul… sold for nothing

The WOOOO-lf… has lost his way

If you find my bones, stranger…

Tell my son I died facing the sea

Thinking of home…