Interpret:

Manowar

Album:

Battle Hymns MMXI

He broke the laws of the elders
So they plucked out his eye
Took his land and fortune
Left him to die


Bound on the shoreline
Left for the tide
Sees his life-blood leaving
Circling lower, the vultures fly


These bones may be broken
But the spirit can't die
And the gods see his anguish
And give him a sign


From the floor of the ocean
The ship of the lost souls rise
And they take him
Where no one sleeps while the undead cry
Where no one sleeps while the undead cry


And in the world above
The elders sing
On his land they live
Let death's bell ring


He was met at the gate of Hades
By the Guardian of the Lost Souls
The keeper of the unavenged


And he did say to him
"Let ye not pass, Abbadon
Return to the world
From whence you came"


"And seek payment
Not only for thine own anguish
But vindicate the souls
Of the unavenged"


And they placed in his hands
A sword made for him
Called, 'Vengeance'
Forged in brimstone


And tempered
By the woeful tears of the unavenged
And to carry him up on his journey
Back to the upper world


They brought forth their demon horse
Called, 'Black Death', a grim steed
So fearsome in might and black in color
That he could stand as one with the darkness


Save for his burning eyes of crimson fire
And on that night they rode up from hell
The pounding of his hooves
Did clap like thunder


Burning, death, destruction
Raping their daughters and wives
In blood I take my payment
In full with their lives


No one can escape me
On black death, I ride
When kissed by the sword of vengeance
Your head lays there by your side


I take the lives of all that I once knew
The torn flesh of a slow death waits for you


Burning, death, destruction
Raping their daughters and wives
In blood I take my payment
In full with their lives


I spare not land or servants
My wake is smoke and flame
I take their wives and daughters
They stand there watching


Hoping to gain their lives
But when I'm through
They know that they must pay


Burning, death, destruction
Raping their daughters and wives
In blood I take my payment
In full with their lives


With their lives
With their lives