Marillion - Grendel

Tekst :

I. Heorot s plea and Grendel s awakening
Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk
Mountain echo, curfews bell, signal ending tasks
They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight
The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as Grendel stalks the night

Earth rim walker seeks his meals
Prepare the funeral pyres
The shaper s songs no longer heal the fear
Within their eyes, their eyes

Wooden figures, pagan gods, stare blindly cross the sea
Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviour born of dreams
They know their lives are forfeit now, priestly head they bow in shame
They cannot face the trembling crowd that flinch in Grendel s name

Earth rim walker seeks his meals
Prepare the funeral pyres
The shaper s songs no longer heal the fear
Within their eyes, their eyes

As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere
Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar s hall so clear
He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify
His claws will drip with mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky

Earth rim walker seeks his meals
Prepare the funeral pyres
The shaper s songs no longer heal the fear
Within their eyes, their eyes

II. Grendel s Journey

Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew
Denizens of twilight lands humbly beg him through
Mother nature s bastard child shunned by leaf and stream
An alien in an alien land seeks solace within dreams
The shaper s lies his poisoned tongue malign with mocking harp
Beguiling queen her innocence offends his icy heart

III. Lurker at the Threshold

Hounds freeze in silence bewitched by the reptile spell
Sulphurous essence pervades round the grassy dell
Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butcher s knife
Stellular heavens ignore even children s cries

Screams are his music, lightning his guide
Raping the darkness, death by his side

Chants rise in terror, free round the oaken beams
Flickering firelight portraying the grisly scene
Warriors advance, prepare for the nightmare foe
Futile their sacrifice as even their hearts must know

Heroes delusion, with feet in the grave
Lurker at the threshold, he cares not for the brave, he cares not for the brave

So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out
You should have known better after all this time
You re gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander
With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes
Why should I feel pity when you kill your own and feel no shame
God s on my side, sure as hell, I m gonna take no blame
I m gonna take no blame, I m gonna take no blame

So you say you believe in all of Mother Nature s laws
You lust for gold with your sharpened knives
Oh when your hoards are gathered and your enemies left to rot
You pray with your bloodstained hands at the feet of your pagan gods

Then you try to place the killer s blade in my hand
You call for justice and distort the truth
Well I ve had enough of all your pretty pretty speeches
Receive your punishment, Expose your throats to my righteous claws
And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, flow, flow, flow.

Inne utwory

  • Somewhere else
  • White Russian
  • The great escape
  • The only unforgivable thing
  • Rich
  • The fruit of the wild rose
  • Hard as love
  • Alice
  • Paper lies
  • Afraid of sunlight
  • The last straw
  • Sunset hill
  • The party
  • Beyond you
  • Assassing
  • Most toys
  • Between you and me
  • Losowe utwory

    Beyond you

    If you were a baby I would take you and run
    I could hide you in the folds of my heart
    There s a truth in the madness that I can t get beyond
    And a fever that won t leave me alone
    I don t...

    Blue moon monday

    So scared of the dark
    Frightened now to close heavy eyes
    Escape this dream
    Haunts my every cell

    Whenever I sleep
    I wake into a world
    After the war
    Cities turned to sand

    We live underground
    Ever since the...

    Aesthetics of hate

    You tried to spit in the eye
    Of a dead man s face
    Attacked the ways of a man
    Not yet in his grave
    But your hate was over all too soon
    Because nothing is over
    And nothing s through,
    Till we bury you

    For the love of brother
    I will sing this fucking song
    Aesthetics of hate,
    I hope you...

    Treat me like an animal

    There s a light at the edge of the darkness
    A cool clear light, entices me there
    And I know that I m your slave, I m yours for eternity, there s no escape

    I ve had love, now I m thru with it, feed the body, not the...

    I get wet

    You watch what I say,
    (Watch what I Say),
    Watch what I do.
    Because I really don t care,
    I really don t care,
    I know you re trying to get somewhere.
    You watch what you say,
    (Watch what I do),
    Im...