Many rocks the rapid has
A lot of billows the sea
More plentiful are my cares
Then cones on a spruce
Beard moss on a juniper
Gnarls upon a pine bark
Knobs upon a fir
Husks on a grass-top
Boughs on a bad tree.
Drag my cares away
Carry off my griefs
For no horse can draw
No iron-shod jerk
Without the shaft-bow shaking off
The cares of this skinny one
The sorrows of this black bird
So many years I′ve been fading
And closed the doors behind
Pay that price if you lost it all
The end is not the past recall
Waiting for the enclosening darkness
And there you will be the light
As it′s carved in your soul
Step out from your mould
The captured mind is a captured state
But only free will has it′s sustain
You burn away all you once loved
Now it′s time to turn away
It′s all too clear you′ve been hiding
Nothing to tell but lies
Feel shame when you distain it all
Your stand is not the past recall
In the morning mist by the waning moon
through the woods she set on foot
With a sacred blade cut the berries down
Dug up the dreaded mandrake root
Tread my path to summer′s end
This bequest I leave you she says
You will see what could be evergreen
Turn to copper and fade to gray
By the standing stones
Atropine eyes smiled at me
Sitting in a sluggish vertigo
Sands of time form another dream
No love without sacrifice
No lige springs without decay
The final kiss is a wormy one
In soils cold caress to rest we′ll lay
To a strange land, land of Pohjola
I took my gift, I received it from the gods
I melted the knowledge of heaven
From the pieces of my heart I built a golden mill
I made the heavens, I delivered them
I gave the horn of plenty, released them
My king sold me to the northland queen
I forged and gave her a godlike machine
It wasn′t enough for the queen of liars
To the river of death I also was sent
The field of death I furroved
I turned the soil black with steaming viper blood
In a forest deep underground
I hunted a wolf and a bear from the shadows
I was offered death as a prize for my great deeds
False words, from the tongue of the northland queen
A heart turned unto me
She whispered the knowledge of gods
And gave the missing words of wisdom
To me, a creator of heavens
A heart turned unto me
A wave the sound of Noisiu′s voice
his singing was ever sweet...
Noisiu′s grave has now been made
and the accompaniment was mournful
For him I poured out – hero of heroes,
the deadly drink that killed him
Dear his short shining hair
a handsome man, even very beautiful
Dear the grey eyes that women loved
fierce they were foes
of our lord
I stood upon the sand of the sea
and the great wind told me to carry on
He shall once know the secret of Holy Grail
And so was the coronation made
And there was he,
sworn unto his lords and the commons
to be true king
There′s no existing misery
that just fades away
faint hearted mindless tracks
through the wicked world
the world of today
and all the people
wait too long
makes them hate too much
foolishness fills this empty space
misgiving all the fortune
misgiving all the luck
stay clear of the killing goodness
the greed of the dying gods
can′t you feel the raging darkness
the eyes stare at your heart
I see you dancing with the doomed
backwards to the womb
the spiral of life comes to the end
darkness will descend
it will descend
and all the people
wait too long
makes them hate too much
foolishness fills this empty space
misgiving all the fortune
misgiving all the luck
and all the people
wait too long
makes them hate too much
foolishness fills this empty space
misgiving all the fortune
misgiving all the luck
This is how the lucky feel
How the blessed think
Like daybreak in spring
The sun on a spring morning
But how do I feel
In my gloomy depths?
Like the flat brink of a cloud
Like a dark night in autumn
A black winter day
No, darker than that
Gloomier than an autumn night
I set out on a longest road
to seek the answers from Death
I set out to the black sacred stream
to seek out and shoot a white swan
On desolate and stony paths
from a mountain to a vale
I reached the shore and saw it come
into my view, the swan
I took the arrow and raised my bow
I aimed below the graceful neck
under the white of its breast
inside the red of its heart
The surface of the river calm and black
reflects the sky, the pale moon
and there a glimpse caught of myself
I′m shattered, the vision is ruined
An arrow from the water
a serpent rips my mind
into the black river of Death
with a slash across my heart
My last sight a white swan
behind the swan a starless sky
under the sky a coal black river
reflected a bone white moon
Sorrow is my bread
And tears I drink as wine
Oblivion my happiness
Ground under teeth of time
For cold be the stone
When frost ve devoured the land
Consolation is no gift
Of winter′s icy hand
Upon a crust of snow
I′ll lay my broken frame
What steel and iron won′t take
I′ll give in winter′s name
No good a sullen sout no use a simple knave
No groom for brides of plaited hair
This man old and lame
If only I could breathe
To see the sun of may
but still longer are the nigths than days
As I wither away
Came the man of crown
With sound of war drums beat
Said no sword arm′s strong enough
Without my two good feet
But not overlooked am I
In eyes of the maid I′ll wed
I′ll reap the crops of Tuonela
My bride′s wealth in death
I walk down to the seashore
To bury my hate
I wait till the morning of the mourning
But it′s too late
Down to the seashore
Through the illuminous gate
You wait for tomorrow but today is today
No one can understand my pain
Find me the ocean
Where waters stand still
Nothing can befall evermore
Find me the ocean which swallows all that floats
It′s time to prevail your conspiracy
It′s a whisper of a dead man
I′ve heard it before
It′s yearning my emotions
Before I was born
It was only delusion
Of illuminous gate
′cause today is the day
Calm is the breath that breaks the circle of silence
Like the whisper of a dying man
Who was born in his own funeral
Time is right for the twisted one
Guide me to the center of the vicious goal
You′re my prey, kiss my arrow the silver
Blackness falls on empty calmness
the night is full
I kissed the frozen sweetness
the mist around my grief
don′t let the past wear you down
let go of the life that haunts you tonight
don′t let the silence take the sound
alone and isolated
ethereal solitude
you can keep all your secrets
there′s no one to hold on to
don′t let the past wear you down
let go of the life that haunts you tonight
don′t let the silence take the sound
don′t let the past wear you down
let go of the life that haunts you tonight
don′t let the silence take the sound
In the bowels of rocky mountain
A fiery bird I forged
Forged from iron, from molten steel
A flaming eagle majestic beast
On the wings of my eagle
To black river I flew
To the dale of the dead
To the stream that grinds all flesh
The eagle soared sky high
Touched the vault of heaven
The sky sparkled
Cracked and creaked
The eagle soared sky high
Soared my flaming griffin
The thunder crashed and rolled
Rolled the monster′s head
I found a monster, a black giant pike
From it′s jaws my eagle saved me
Dragged the fish under the sun
Split it′s belly, ripped the head off
I rolled the pike′s head to the house of the north
I threw the bony skull at they haughty queen
Here′s a throne for you to rest your frozen bones
I have done my share, now keep your promise
I had made the heavens
Forged out a miracle
The snake infested field of death turned over
Slayed the wolf of shadow lands
Shackled the bear of death
I captured the impossible
The pike from the black river
I am of crimson blood
nought shall hold me
mirror mine the dark of night
reflects me in water
Ablaze are my eyes
my soul consumed by woe
my braids weaved by the wind
an image black in my mind
Leave I must now with haste
me who tires of quiet life
me who′s path leads to war
me who fears no death
I yearn for more
I yearn to rise
I yearn for everything
I yearn for you
I yearn to rise
No longer I was breathing
No more bleeding
Inside the urn
Under a soil and black stone
Under a soil and black stone
And I was listening
And felt no pain
To the sunrise to east
I′ll leave my grief
To the stars shine
Casting my eyes by the long nights
Blessed I was
To rest then
Inside the urn
Under a soil and black stone
Soil upon me
So fragile
As a veil
Without secrets
The staring
Space so wide
She′s riding on a crimson wave
Truth sat on her shoulder
Planets before melting face
The keys for the wounded
Sinking into underground
Please the one who wants it
Something is pulling you down
It′s not the cravings why you need it
It′s a rush hour inside my head
Don′t wanna share the anguish
And I will take it away from you
Before you can change it
That bastard hallucination′s pushing me
Like a damned I walk over
Touch the sky when it′s burning red
Standing the ground I have chosen
Shivering in outer space
There′s no one who can hear you
Getting into different state
It′s like getting nowhere
Gathering all those fears and fails
There′s no one who can see you
Someone is pulling you down
It′s not the cravings why you need it
The Devils weds a widow
Death another′s leftovers
Better to lie on a willows
Rest on alder boughs
Then upon a widow′s bed
On a used woman′s pillow
Sweeter the side of a fence
Then a widow′s flank
Softer the side of a grove
Than a widow′s beside is
The Devil weds a widow
The grave one twice wed
A widow′s hand is rougher
Than a dry spruce bough
With which she strikes the playful
Grabs the one who laughs
A widow has had her games
And spent a merry evening
Your helping hand is killing me
If you see me suffer it′s not your victory
Sadistic forms of new way discipline
Like I love myself I love to sin
And I want more
And I want it low
Of course you wont forgive me
But I wont crawl
Look out for number one
I pray on you it has begun
Let the night stand one thousand years
Longstanding ,everlasting
Breathless masquerade
I′m your devil in disguise
Grieve stricken heart
Calls upon you
Grieve stricken heart
My only look you fools
I love my misery too
I′m the one to see your collapse
I′m on the side of destruction
On the side of black and I love to sin
Mentally transmitted disease
Rotten wretched attraction
And I love myself
Spring came in one day
The clouds in front of the moon
Tore themselves to shreds
So that two moons passed in one night
Winter went and spring came
And the clouds tore off their clothes
Washed them in the rivers of rain
And naked in the dark they stayed
Waited for their cloaks to dry
They darkened the face of the moon
They would have tried to kill it
If they could have reached that far
As it spied on the clouds
They′ve taken off in the rivers of heaven
They′ve taken off
I will never sleep alone (never without you)
Whatever you say to me
I already know
If I said something to you
You would take those words
There′s so much power in those words
(You don′t know) You don′t know nothing yet
About the dreams I have
I will make you sleep
(You don′t know) You don′t know nothing yet
About the dreams I have
Sleep is a house for lovers
You will be the mistress (of that house)
You will be given the wide belt
And the big key to the gate
If I said something to you
You would take those words
There′s so much power in those words
Darkness was my light
Muteness was my tongue
Death was my life
Matter was my spirit
I am a brother to the fire
To fire a brother I am
From breasts of maidens three
I drank the black milk
Devoured the white milk
I swallowed the red milk
Brother to the fire I am
Brother to the fire
I′ve lain in the dark bowels
Bowels of this marshland
Dead beneath the soil
Under the waters
Oblivious to all
Devoid of all knowing
A bird flew out of Lapland
An eagle from the North East
One wing ruffled the water
And the other swept the sky
It′s tail skimmed the sea
It flutters, it glides
It looks, it turns round
"Why, man are you in the sea
Fellow, among the billows?"
The god of deception
a man with your face
see him still wondering
searching for your grave
needles called luster
it′s only a one night stand
and you are six feet under
dead by your own hand
as you lost your destination
something drilled holes in your soul
it′s time to meet your maker
raise the relief on your temple
as you lost your destination
something drilled holes in your soul
it′s time to meet your maker
raise the relief on your temple
make them blame themselves
regret the deceased
until the truth kills it′s novelty
attrition of their beliefs
as you lost your destination
something drilled holes in your soul
it′s time to meet your maker
raise the relief on your temple
it′s the pain that calls the tune
those heartbreaking moments
mislaid it all
all the happiness
you can die at your leisure
make them blame themselves
regret the deceased
until the truth kills its novelty
attrition of their beliefs
Once I was there
Standing outside
Looking in
Beside my window
Smiling face, shattering
It′s an old man′s pride
That climbs over understanding
It wasn′t your child
That I was hurting
And I turn my back to the world
Well I don′t care
What can I say if I see you all as dead
Under the dying sun it comes
Weaving fear but I have none
I know that mushroom cloud
Won′t come very near
What do you have to believe in
And all the poison you breath in
The crystal heart shatters within
once I was there
standing outside
moving in
inside my window
crying face, shattering
take all that you have
and leave the rest for today
it′s the old folk′s sign
that took away your chastidy
We craved the light from the darkness
It′s a morning of misfortune
The dawn of a mankind
Listen to me instead of a blind folk′s speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you′ll see
I can hear the silence
See invisible emptiness
Tarnish the halo of your guidance
And the night is over
That women in grief
Luxurious gehenna
And what I have become
What I have done to you
Listen to me instead of a blind folk′s speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you′ll see
Mother wept for her son
she wept and sang
anxiously pondered fate
his and her own
A sun′s ray, in through the eye
glimmered in the room of mind
changing the woman shape
sorrow fled her face
From the shaman into shaman
From the chimney a witch flew out
shaman dived across the sky
under her the woods and lakes
till she saw the Northland gates
I have come for my son, where is my son?
I accept no lies, no falsehods or deception
I′ll send you plagues unnumbered
destruction upon your house
I lay to waste your treasures
and slay your fairest daughter
The queen of north told of the way
the road to River Black
impossible and incomplete
the path of no return
As I sense their steel,
As I see the mighty one,
As we all gather once again
the gods of war summon us...
summon us
North wind blows to our valley
men with ships, with swords, with honour
Their horses between flames,
their dogs eating enemy childs,
Our heavenly father, what is this mortality,
do you see my mortal agony
Look, I see the shield up high
this must be the sign from my lord
this can be my death – sentence
what a fine day to die
Taste of blood comes up high
Wind blows hard, our men fall...
one by one
This oath claims me
I must bleed for my generation
Strong is the enemy,
strong is my sword
the hammer is rising
I feel their cold steel
Now when I leave this world
I shall open the mighty oaken gate
and we all shall gather once again
Old folk remember
And those today learn
How before their time
Life was different here:
Without the sun people lived
Groped about without the moon
With candles sowing was done
Planting performed with torched.
At the time we lived
Without the sunshine
Who had covered up our sun
And who had hidden our moon?
Without the moonlight stumbled
With our fists fumbled the land
With our hands we sought out roads
With hands roads, with fingers swamps
We could seek out the sun
Who spy out the moon?
Who else if not God
The one son of God?
Still searching for my way, the right way to be
still pondering what I′ve done
I′m still thinking what I′ve said, still finding from within
and all that I know is still not enough
I′m being held by the one
shadow tormenting my soul
the curving neck of a swan
the slow turning of a birds head
So white its plumes and feathers
itse breast like the moon in water
silent and tranquil it moves
on the river in the calm
I wander back on familiar roads
I sense the marks I left on the hills
I see the cuts and wounds of my deeds
they make me muse on life
Up the hill and the mountain
I look back, I look down
there flows the River of Death
and here the wind in my hair
Sparks sent flying, my mind thundering
The room of my heart flashing to the sky
The flaring of fumes fill my senses
Pervade this room and this space
The days they blend into the nights
The moon, the sun unite
Order of stars expires
A wonder is born
I listen and aim, I observe
I use all the forces and let it transpire
I confront the darkness absolute
And blinding, dazzling brilliance
From roaring flames the shapes emerge
Come forth they do with vile charms
Their poisoned core hides in beauty
But I see and perceive their deceit, I see
Into the blaze I shove them back
To lose their forms to the hungry fire
Again and yet again
I start my work anew
Again and again
I start my work again
Under the vault of heavens
I stood alone, waiting
The blaze of silver shining in my eyes
My hands of gleaming gold
The red of iron in my veins
The blue of steel in my bones
The sparkle of blackness of coal in my hair
My chest golden with waved
It is my heaven
It has my eyes
It is my space
It has my shape
I knew it was my masterwork
I felt the strength of gods
Revised the soaring heights
Let the heavens be aligned
I listened with care the place for the moon
Made sure of the tones
Painted through void the route for the sun
Made out the locus of stars
I pierced the distant dome
For the lights to seep through
I checked the curves of borders of all
And placed the highest star
It worked and sun and danced
It shone and gloved and gleaned
It circled, curved and blazed
It pulsed, burned and waned
It flowed from my bones
And bolted from my fingers
And settled on and over me
And made me face my longing
I climb to the higher ground
to see what′s behind the sun
step on the hands made out of clay
the hands of stained mortals
all there is and all you′ll have
bless the one who cannot cry
there is no night
there is no sunlight
until you refuse to die
I′d let you sleep now
but I don′t know how
I′d let you grieve now
but I don′t know how
I chant the songs of madness
to be the chosen one
still all these bleeding wounds
cannot be cured by sadness
all there is and all you′ll have
bless the one who cannot cry
there is no night
there is no sunlight
until you refuse to die
I′d let you sleep now
but I don′t know how
I′d let you grieve now
but I don′t know how
That′s what my sister says
And during that day
Came spring and summer
Oh, when did you fly here?
It was you I found
The same flesh and blood
(My flesh) It was you that I found
(My blood) It was you that I met
One just like me, same flesh and blood
(My flesh) It was you that I found
(My blood) It was you that I met
One just like me, my flesh and blood
A hard place, this world
And nowhere else
Does one make so many mistakes
What′s done is done
Done and gone
The same flesh and blood
The calloo′s spirits are low
Swimming on the chill water
But the orphan′s are lower
Walking down the village street.
The sparrow′s belly is chill
Sitting on the icy bough
But my belly is more chill
As I step from glade to glade.
The dove′s heart is cold
As it pecks the village rick
But I′m colder still
As I drink the icy water.
A beautiful day when it′s over
Clouds high up in the sky
A beautiful day when it′s over
Nobody will bury me
In this wicked world the war I live
In this wicked world to war I go
Here′s my good life, best I ever have
How did I get here
Beautiful yard, trees against the sky
There is an empty opening
They only live for one summer
This world is too good for me
Feel the ground
the mourning soil
close your eyes and lay
confront the passage of time
eternity which you cannot betray
barter away this haziness
down to earth this sparkling distress
thereafter you calling me hallowed
barter away this haziness
down to earth this sparkling distress
thereafter you calling me hallowed
sadness eclipsed
passing your heart
calling out the shadows from the dark
you still believe
that your life was empty
and now all that has gone
barter away this haziness
down to earth this sparkling distress
thereafter you calling me hallowed
barter away this haziness
down to earth this sparkling distress
thereafter you calling me hallowed
down to earth this sparkling distress
down to earth this sparkling distress
Astonishment when I bend over you creep
Put a noose around my neck
Which side I deside it′s my time to reap
It′s your side wicked and deaf
Take me to the place I can sleep
Wipe away all misery
Turn my path away
From the mind tearing tragedy
Consuming range of vision
I can see they decline
It′s a stay of execution
I fly free tonight
New moon laughs on it′s own
Without compassion
I crawl through the realms unknown
And kneel to the goddess of the sad man
Inhale all mists from the shadows
And hide before the dawn
Face your mortal horror
You won′t be reborn
Is he a proud man or just a fraud
Fooling himself with a losers talk
Punished to eternal vanity
It′s thy destiny to cry for purity
You infidel slime
I grace insanity
satisfy my agony
I know what my goddess needs
I bet there′s something wrong
inside my psycho creep
fire burns within her eyes
take me to the deadly ride
I remember how she was
when she choked on her own pride
Fate changed
Life healed like a wound
How does the kind of life heal
That leaves such a scar
I cover myself, I uncover myself
Now I know how to do things
No longer will I listen to any talk
Now I know and it′s working
Everything hurts inside of me
Out from the frozen lake
She finally grew into her full might
She grew from a tiny thing
On this lake as I drove there to meet her
Forging the future from the timeless stone
Oh let me know how far I can go
Answering the questions thet no one ever asks
Float through the sea of madness
And face the everlasting task
So lonely to wander
So sad to be alone
In the mist of the unknown
Trying to fool myself with dreams that never come true
So hard to stand my ground
Never again will I fail
Will you tell me not to wait
Tell me to live for today
As the flowers wither
I will forget my pain
Since the stars have shone
The devil has shown me the way
Got a maid from the lands of north
A wife from lands of strange
The work of gods was at last replaced
By days and nights of men
She wakes beside me
She stands by me
She stares at our sky
She lives our lives
In the beginning of all time the sounds of war
I sanctified for work
Cries of terror harmonized to a song
Spirits of wrath restrained
And now dead is my wife
Ripped apart by iron teeth
Slashed by the claws of steel
The ancient venom surfaced again
She lies in the ground
She′s gone from me
She stares without eyes
She stares at me
Poisoned by the bane of riches
Betrayed by lies manifold
Slain by avenger
The ancient venom turned the course of fate
She woke beside me
She stood by me
She stared at our sky
And lived our life
I hear you
hear your worthless speech
unheard and sensational
feeding my comprehension
let me see beyond all additional
show me something real
something low and dramatical
when all this sinful glittery
is still too much to see
taste the death from my hand
cleanse your senses
take the death from my hands
please your senses
I fear you
planetary misfortune
who will pray for my hallucinations
I′m not attuned
when you fold your hands
it′s a wave of the salvation
and their slaves are their kings
futility of this creation
stand before the illusionist
the man of misapprehension
taste the death from my hand
cleanse your senses
take the death from my hands
please your senses
How does it feel
Blessed to receive
Be modest and forgiving
How does it feel
You can try to hate me
But you′re only hurting yourself
Drifting in your shady memories
Where to go when sorrow breeds
Let the fear run through
Breath in black and stiffling air
All those words they disappear
No need to rest it′s too early to die
You don′t have to say
Why rue for that day
When you′ve open up your eyes again
Now it′s your fate
Face your heart ache
You wish to make it unreal
Kiss the devil′s mark
like a self-denial without temptation
she suffers from shame
prodigious perversions
it′s her final dimension
feel affection for her longings
lamentation for no reason why
deep mistrust over matter
seduce it′s will to melt away
she′s plagued with pain
making me insane
passionate repulsion
kiss the evil inside
that you cannot deny
smiling at your sufferings
feel affection for her longings
lamentation for no reason why
deep mistrust over matter
seduce its will to melt away
A mind dejected, blood boiling with anger
the storm of the warpath, now sings in my heart
your pleading, useless, I now shall disregard
I′ll leave you to weep and to fear for me
(I′m ready for my end)
my hair I comb down
with resin into braids
(I′m ready to ascend)
my will burning high
summon strength from the night
I equip myself, to warfare I prepare
I put on my black cloak, enchanted adders skins
your prayers shall not reach into my heart
your despair shall not stop me now
This precious hairbrush, thrown at the wall
it came to me from my father
I give you this as a token of myself
for you to have and mourn over
And when my blood flows from it′s bristles
when my sap is dripping from it′s shaft
then you will know of my anguish
my destruction will be revealed
Slowly turns the key of time
In the lock of promises broken
In mute silence of my space
I crouch under my yearning
The works of my gods receding now
Evade my grasping hands
Her hair I would long to adorn
With glowing stars
Her brow with shining sun
In silver I would trace
The moonshine of her grace
The shining one
Perfection of the skies I knew
And memories of my deeds
Fade away beyond my reach
And change to lonely nights
But ever so slowly
Turns the key of time
In a rusty lock
Of broken promises
From my world the sun faded
And the moon from my sky was gone with stars
I came home to a bleak room of sorrow
Forsaken house, place of grief, in solitude
I listened to my heart beating
The faint rush of my blood
I listened to my heart beating
The echoes from space
Something moving in the emptiness
Something drew me near
Someone told me of my future deeds
Whispered them in my ear
The sky stirred
The lights of space flared
Beneath my feet
The living earth started to breath
The sky is mine
This sword is mine
This fate is mine
This miracle, mine
From steel I made the master′s sword
Cleaving stone, cliff, a mountain
From darkness I stepped
Onto the path of stars
In my dream smoke followed me
As on fire the whole world had been
To the yard I walked in
Up the frontstep and opened the door
Cranes flew over to the North
As I walked on dry
And passed through a grove
Yellow with flowers
They had been expecting me
They said so and I believed
Im my dream smoke came to me
And we became as one
I am smoke
Inside this nonexistence
I know very clearly
The directions, all the points
Of every potential quarter
I forge my wisdom
Into an arc surrounding all
I forge my heartbeat
To a dome all heavens wide
I know the sun and the moon
The names of stars
Their movement and purpose
I mark the place of polaris on these impossible heights
I forge the horizons
I craft them for flowing blood
I forge the places
Precise for silver, precise for gold
In solitude, I measure out
The range of barren lands
I drain unto the nothingness
The intersecting curves
I look at all directions
I look at one clear point
I see them all come together
I see into the heart
This here is my place, it is my work
I was made the maker of the sky
I am the maker of the sky
I am the forger of the arc
I have known the arcane lore
on strange roads such visions met
that I have no fear nor concern
for hatred and obstacles of this world
By stone-shoed wanderer I am taught
my visions from fiery eyed iron-armed chanter
I know how to fight, I know how to sing
I know how to bend, I know how to break
I′ve not grown weary on lengthy roads
on strange lands not gone astray
such is the knowledge cast in me
such is the knowledge, such are the skills
I know how to fight
I know how to sing
I know the way
If ruin is said to befall me
it has not come to pass
I′ve conquered all who stood on my way
and drowned the snakes of death
Because of treason I now shall leave
because of my blood burning my soul
and now I raise this flaming sword
towards darkness, against everyone
Where have you been, where have you been
my son, my merry son?
On the seashore, on the seashore
mother, my darling one.
And what have you been doing there
my son, my merry son?
I have been watering my horse
mother, my darling one.
Why is there blood upon your feet
my son, my merry son?
My horse stamped with its iron shoe
mother, my darling one.
Why there is blood upon your sword
my son, my merry son?
I have stabbed my brother to death
mother, my darling one.
What now of you, where will you go
my son, my wretched son?
To other lands to foreign lands
my dame, my darling one.
When will you be returning home
my son, my wretched son?
When all the world to judgement comes
my dame, my darling one.