The Raven's Farewell...
Live performance male vocals, haunting chants, call and reply, folk, ancient Norse-inspired, hard drums Aside is call-reply format. Reply is audience chanting
The Raven's Farewell...
Live performance male vocals, haunting chants, call and reply, folk, ancient Norse-inspired, hard drums Aside is call-reply format. Reply is audience chanting
Lyrics
Verse
The horn cries out...
A wolf in the gale...
Shields are raised...
Faces pale...
The swords they gleam
The eyes are red
Hand grips steel
Teeth grind...
Unbroken wills...
Chorus
Feast for the raven...
Feast for the crow...
The blood-soaked earth...
Where we must go...
Echoes of laughter...
The mead halls hum....
Left behind...
The songs we sung...
Verse 2
Fields of green
Now faded and far
The hearth’s warm glow
The evening star
The cradle rocks...
With no hand to sway
A mother’s tear.. a twisted face
A father’s grave...
Aside – Call and Reply
(Leader) Who will stand
And who will fall?
(Chorus) The gods decide
They hear the call!
(Leader) What will remain when the sun has set?
(Chorus) Echos of cries
And the debt unmet!
Bridge
Iron bites deeper than love’s embrace
Ashes and smoke
The plundered face
The sea churns black
A serpent’s grin
Few return
Broken within
Verse 3
The longships groan...
The oars they bite...
Each pull...
A promise, lost in night
Enemies near....
Enemies cheer...
Our broken shields...
Circle of crows...
The raven flies....
Chorus
Feast for the raven...
Feast for the crow...
The blood-soaked earth...
Sleep where no thing grow
Whispers of laughter...
The mead halls hum....
Left behind...
The songs we sung...
Outro, fade
The gods they laughed...
Our kins they died...
Now we lay...
Broken inside....
(broken inside...)
(broken inside...)
(broken inside...)