Naked Steel (The Warrior's Saga) lyrics

Song information

Artist: Bal-Sagoth
Album: Battle Magic

Lyrics

[Legends etched into the ancient stone dolmens on the dark moors...]

[The oracle of war:]
The crows will pick your bones clean..
Never sweet the kiss of cold steel

The exultation of battle..

[The warrior:]
Blades aflame with witch-fire burning
Bright swords blessed by nine king's blood
The elf-witch weaves war-spells upon us
Neath the wolf-moon's gaze we shall slake our steel!

[The warrior:] battle magic empowers my thews!
[The oracle of war:] the crows will pick your bones clean..
[The warrior:] red-tooth thirsts to smite and slaughter!
[The oracle of war:] never sweet the kiss of cold steel..

[The shaman's decree:]
Born beneath the thrice-cursed cromlech (destined for deeds of greatness)
Three stars aligned to assauge thine newborn cries, foretold, the hilt of
Red-tooth awaits thine hand (kingdoms shall fall before thee!), and in the
Nine scrolls thine death prophesized

[The warrior:]
The clarion of battle beckons me... red-tooth crackles with searing spectral
Energy. aye, emperors and kings shall perish beneath my blade! the head of the
Eastern chieftan adorns my spear... I've a throne to usurp! into the thick of
The fray!

[The shaman's decree:]
This heart that pounds like a hammer
This heart that pounds so strong
This heart that pumps a great warrior's blood
This heart will pound for half as long

[The warrior's vow:]
By all the gods... I swear the ireful edge of dwarf-forged steel shall meet
All who dare stand against me! my destiny awaits... I shall carve my path in
Carnage, and inscribe my saga upon the scrolls of legendry in the spilled
Blood of slaughtered kings!

[The oracle of war:] carnage! and the crows shall feast upon the eyes of the
Slain!

The final dolmen of the dark moors is mysteriously missing, believed removed
Thousands of years ago by troll war-bands as a trophy of battle..