Skyclad - Which Is Why

You say that it's good reason, "an eye for an eye" "A queer bird the fish, sir" must be my reply For fresh meat and lodgings I'll stand by your side If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride All the days after, said all the days after All the days after, let fortune decide Always and after, sing, always and after Death, debt or disaster, let fortune decide When absurdity starts to make more or less sense Embrace all your demons, then banish them hence When clarity flows in the sweet by and ...

Skyclad - Superculture

Councillor, I love your city fair With its vistas and its good clean air that we all breathe Councillor, I love your city fair With its moguls and its gurus who sing "boom or bust" It's okay because we're free men and in God we trust Love your superculture Bigger, brighter future They make it better every year Love your superculture Even if it's overdone Overblown and over here Councillor, I love your city fair With its curfews and its social care and "by your leave" Councillor, I love your city ...

Skyclad - Hit List

A list of needs to get me started Help me organise my day Get up, get dressed and get reminded Exactly what I need to say Everything is architecture Everything's political It's all pride and prejudice Don't tell me that it's art! A cool head for calculation These things occupy my mind I work better independent Deal with one thing at a time Buzzwords buzzing through my brain Repetition makes the point...again Your vile vowel movements, they bother me Don't bother to buzz me again In the evening ...

Skyclad - Babakoto

Bush of ghosts is burning In the forests of the night We hear spirits call to move our souls Hear their voice in many things Animals and birds and trees Babakoto and his kind They will help us sing our song Reach across the gulf of time They will help us sing our song We must try and understand Commutate a falling leaf Catch the breathing of the sands Raindrops on a windowpane we must understand Spirits move amongst us all Ask the ancients of this world If we only read the signs They will help ...

Skyclad - The Well-travelled Man

Seems so many years now since he set off down the road For the bright lights of the city and his story to unfold No strings, no family plans, no ties to hold him down His first avowed intent, to leave this dormitory town At first, he lay just dreaming till he hit upon a plan To be a true civilian and a well-travelled man His father told him: "Listen son, the world lies at your feet Great lands of opportunity and strangers all to meet" So seize the day, go make your mark, 'cause fortune loves ...

Skyclad - Still Small Beer

Wake up Jacob now, wake up John Day's a-wasting, great things to be done Super-highways don't build themselves Estates and empires by the stroke of twelve Where we fit in the scheme of things? We're just debris blown by the wind So forget your woman and the water can We're all working for the man He's got money now, he's got fame He's got letters running after his name He says "We are where we must be And we are what we must be" Still small beer Got the message loud and clear Still small beer For ...

Haggard - Lost (Robin's Song)

Running away in the autumn rain Did you ever see a little child sleeping? "To be near them will my sorrow drain..." Suddenly I stocked, their bodies weren't breathing anymore And I couln't help! They captured my heart with their sorrow... it grows - Due to the ones who fear Dance in the morninglight Due to the ones who fear Slaves to this innocent might - Due to the ones who fear Dance in the morninglight Due to the ones who fear Slaves to this innocent might - Carrying away the ones I love Folden ...

Haggard - The Day As Heaven Wept

One of man's darkest chapter, it has just begun In the sign of the cross they rise It's the epoch of the inquisition Too many brothers and sisters have died... ..left with no life inside to be awaken They will never see the morning sun again Hypocrisy killed the forsaken Who thought, faith would be their only friend Faith would be their only friend The scenery shows the ashes of some who tried to refuse Rising smoke becomes one with the dim light of the pale and lurid moon Can dark clouds hide ...

Haggard - Daddy Was Her First Man

A sweet girl of eleven years Within her brain: The darkest fear caught by absolute disaster Her virginity - lost to the own father There he comes with alcoholic breath Now her mind is fallen, emotions are dead Cold by routine she's accepting her fate Which she must endure since her age of 8 People close their ears And they close their eyes They're only open for a moment When somebody has died The weak, little victims have no voice And falling tears don't make a noise How long does it take 'til a ...

Haggard - Progressive...

Nowadays they are called "Progressive Wars" So seen near ARABIA CROATIA and BOSNIA Politicians preach with their greatest pride The last thing we need is a nuclear Suicide! Mankind will be sorted out... Nowadays they are called "Progressive Wars" So seen near ARABIA CROATIA and BOSNIA Politicians preach with their greatest pride The last thing we need is a nuclear Suicide! Mankind will be sorted out ...

Haggard - Incapsuled

Victim of a tragic accident To survive she really had no chance And they thought, that all in her had died But ONE part was still alive... So they couldn't hear The silent scream As they connected her on this life-machine An embryonic existence Incapsuled in a corpse Artifical rescue of a lost life The decision: Right or wrong? Let live? Or let die? If it would be on you, how would YOU decide? An abortion, a solution - maybe But taking the right to live from the Baby away? Why punish to die? Is ...

Haggard - Charity Absurd

The murmur grows - until they rage It is not a scenery At this market-place in middle-ages Somebody - in the crowd - Speaks a prayer Hundred burning torches rise In their light appears the silhouette Of a mighty FUNeral pile Headling with some unknown herbs - Rising suspicion - "Death" - they say - "is what she deserves!" - An innocent victim - "Instruments of torture will tell us the truth!" And it feels like Oooohhh... "I'm representing the church Somebody said, in you might lurk Things - still ...

Skyclad - In The... All Together

Another dawn, another date Another meeting of the ol' G8 To change the world, make history Not compromise or hesitate Try something, try anything Try help the situation Amidst the cries and demonstrations We hear the plans of favoured nations "If it could be done", they said, "the sooner then, the better" "It would be good if it was better than the way it was before" they said In the mire all together, when there's so much to admire It seems "the emperor's new clothes" is such a seasonable attire The ...

Skyclad - Modern Minds

Lord knows I've been drinking again Caffeine and alcohol And taking of that opiate and where that leaves me ...I don't know Asking all those questions 'bout democracy Society and "all that jazz" Go to run a check on reality Is anything just what it seems? We can work it out We've got modern minds There's nothing to be scared of We've got modern minds Lord knows I'm a willing man And you shouldn't want to stop a willing man You could never hurt me like I hurt myself So, let me go, abuse myself A ...

Haggard - Eppur Si Muove

My Son, beware. ... of all that your eyes cannot see Trust your mind And strenghten your abilities Did you ever touch the starlight ? Dream for a thousand years? Have you ever seen the beauty Of a newborn century? And now's the time to enter A new way, things to see Man is just a weak reflection In evolution's history And in your hour of darkness It will guide your way: La bellezza del paese di Galilei E nella mia ora più buia loro splenderanno spenderanno per me all'infinito Geboren im flackernden ...

Haggard - The Observer

So all the stars Will guide us on our way The Sextant as a leader Has duration for all days Look at the amazing sky In long and profund discoveries With a strong and a clear mind he's encryping Secrets of astronomy In endless nights He observes the sky This publications will change the world Galileo Galilei Only what my eyes will see, I will believe! Day and night - seperated by the light In Pisa he's required To teach the theory That the stars and all the planets Revolve around the earth But ...

Haggard - Of A Might Divine

Requiem eternam Et dona eis domine Ride, ride, over the land Sorrow comes without a waring, dear And do never start to sacrifice your faith They, they betray And poisoned voices creep into your mind For this will be their final stand Ride, ride over the land! Outside - a light! He awakes in the deep of a stormy night They have come to get him now A feast for the raging crowed With torches still alight Supressed by a might divine "Your science of the dark" Revoke what has been told Or at the break ...

Haggard - Per Aspera Ad Astra

(Adesso sono qui.) An old dungeon hidden from all the light Thirteen candles enlighten the dark Shadows are playing their games on the wall And a shimmering glow fills the arch Now, as night steps as side, and a new dawn will break Silently a new age of science awakes Old theory that has been wrong Power of the universe Will take me to the place where I belong Through the clauds of lies and fear In silent moments it comes near: In my deepest hour of darkness They will shine. (feel my scorn) endlessly. (The ...

Haggard - And The dark Night Entered

And Michael Nostradamus began to wander through Europe for the next sixyears, where he first became aware the awakening of his prophetic powers - So god has found him weeping And weath flickered deep withis his eyes For thy shalt suffer As long ago... - Sadness comes from deep inside There are so many shades of winter His breath warms up the wintry air Punishment to all the sinners - Demenia slowly unlightnes the mind... - So god has found him weeping And wrath flickered deep withis his eyes For ...

Haggard - Prophecy Fulfilled

Out beneath the nightly sky Squat down on the ground His breath warms up the wintry air The truth hurts, that he found - He might be the chosen one The one, allowed to see God's eye for the human race That ends in misery - Nobody knows... That it is real, nobody knows... that it is real! - It's so powerful to foresee With diving astronomy The light inside the crystal soul Protecs me from the wintry coldness But a dark might is on the lead And thy scares start to bleed... again... - Nobody knows... That ...

Haggard - In A Full Moon Procession

As the evining breaks The night awakes And the land is mournfully wrapped in silence Sorrow last And remains the past cause this will be my ending day - Then the moonlight dies And torches rise See the crowd longing for the ritual burning Holy rimes, as the churchbells chime cause this will be my ending day - Silent thief Take me away Let my soul rest in the realm of fairytales And as the fire enlightens the dark I see the face bewildered with guilt An nobody's speaking a word - And the dark night ...

Haggard - Statement Zur Lage Der Musica

Wart! Ich erzehl euch von den Trummen, man nenne yetz bey uns Tympanu als die grossen Herpauken, von kupferen kessell gemacht und mir Kalbs fellen über zogen, daruff schlecht man mit Klüpfeln, das es ser laut und helle tumelt. Under Fürsten höfe zu den felt tumeten, wan man zu tisch plaset oder wan ein Fürst in ein Stat ein reitet oder aufzeucht oder in das Felt zeucht, das synd gar ungeheur rumpelfesser. Dise bauken alle synd wie sye wellen die machen vil onruwe en Erbern frummen alten leuten, ...

Haggard - Awaking The Centuries

Awaking the Centuries - In the books of what will be Written by the demon lord? Never lift your head up to the east 'cause darkness wakes the best! - Der Kerzen Schein Er leuchtet fahl Als das Sonnenlicht er stahl Und nur das große Himmelszelt Bezeugt das Ende dieser Welt - So feed the spark Welcome to the land of dark Death in all the centuries is what I left behind Take my hand Forgotten in the promised land Death in all the centuries is what I left behind - The knowledge, brought to the world Is ...

Haggard - The Final Victory

We are writing the year 1543 A.D., the time the black plaque struck Agen, here Michael Nostradamus lived with his wife and two children. He confidently began to treat his felow citizens, but - unfortunately - was not able to save his family from his old enemy... - The final victory Has crushed the autumn silence The vinal victory Has crushed the autumn silence - Mortius, domine, lux perpetua luceat Mortius, domine, lux perpetua luceat Mortius, domine - Mortius, domine - Viju svet v notschi tumanoi Ne ...

Haggard - Heavenly Damnation

Suffering dementia Unchains the secret's bearer Unholy visions "God forgive me!" Are coming nearer - coming nearer, Amen! - Lux perpetua, domine - Dementia slowly unlightens the mind And satan steals the morninglight - Domine - Viju svet v notschi tumanoi Ne prognat mne prisrak strany Svet Negasnusei svetschi Gorit, Gorit v notschi Svet Negasnusei svetschi Gorit, Gorit v notschi - No God has found him weeping And wrath flickered deep withing His eyes So thy shalt suffer As long ago the one's been ...

Haggard - Pestilencia

Aide moi... - Oh, il est tombé! Mais, qu'est-ce qu'il a ? Sainte vierge! Au secours! Venez! Venez! Venez! - C'est la peste! C'est la peste! Sauve qui peut! Sauve qui peut! - Dominus vobiscum - Et cum spiritu tuo. Quid est, quod vis? - Iter! Claudite fenestras et portas! Nunc manus Dei punientis pestilentiam etiam Agentem apportavit! - Domine, serva animos nostros... Aide moi... - Oh, il est tombé! Mais, qu'est-ce qu'il a ? Sainte vierge! Au secours! Venez! Venez! Venez! - C'est la peste! C'est la ...

Haggard - The Midnight Gathering

In the woods we met you, stranger And though we don't know your face Taken your fiddle, come on over Sit down 'round the fireplace - Watch the flames are dancing higher They are longing for the sky heroes now will be awaken Elder stories let their spirits fly - Watch the flames are dancing higher They are longing for the sky heroes now will be awaken Elder stories let their spirits fly - In the woods we met you, stranger Now it's time to say goodbye Like all the stars that lead the blind We're hiding ...

Haggard - Hijo De La Luna

Tonto el que no entienda Cuenta una leyenda Que una hembra gitana Conjuró la luna Hasta el amanecer Llorando pedía Que al llegar el día Desposara un carél Tendrás a tu hombre Piel morena Desde el cielo habló La luna llena Pero a cambio quiero El hijo primero Que le engendres a él Que quien su hijo inmola Para no estar sola ¿Como le iba a querer? Luna quieres ser madre Y no encuentras querer que te hagan mujer Dime luna de plata ¿Qué pretendes hacer con un niño de piel? Hijo de la luna De padre ...

Haggard - Vor Dem Sturme

Marching long and far Day turns to night Scattered campfires flicker on three thousand mighty warriors who the sharpen their swords and axes Never knowing if they will return Marching long and far Day turns to night Scattered campfires flicker on three thousand mighty warriors who the sharpen their swords and axes Never knowing if they will ret ...

Chapter II - Upon Fallen Autumn Leaves

Moonrise Chapter III - La Terra Santa So we're all the letters In a mystical tale While the hours of my kingdom Do rapidly fade Deep clouds bear thunder Like a dark poem's rhyme And now is the dawn of all times Concealed behind old castle walls Will the grim one return, will Ithiria fall? "Bring me the seer, may true words he speak" As nightfall has murdered the last rays of light Oh god, don't let my heart be weak tonight Now as morning nears Farewell they fear There is sadness in her eyes Out ...

Haggard - On my path

Als ich nun wand're auf dem Pfad Und die Dunkelheit verhüllt Den Mondenschein der Licht mir gab Der das inn're Toben stillt Suddenly Along the mountainside Fog demons slowly rise Oh wanderer you'll see Your fate seems to be sealed by thee As magic did weave On sanctified grounds He fell on this knees where he stood And blinded by those That have passed long ago Here in Gildeon's Woods As he turns his head Hurt by the beasts His heart - filled with fear For this is the end Or will he find The way ...

Haggard - From Deep Within

Arriving at his farm house He saw his fathers lifeless body Pinned to the front door by two arrows He could feel his anger rising From Deep Within Arriving at his farm house He saw his fathers lifeless body Pinned to the front door by two arrows He could feel his anger rising From Deep Wit ...

Haggard - Chapter I - Tales Of Ithiria

Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem My son, now listen what I say: Keep in mind what you have learned Wrap your fingers 'round your sword Maybe you will not return Thousands that we once have been Only a few are still here I've to give this sacrifice oh, the autumn brought us fear My life, my blood, my tears, my pain I'm the guardener of thee Through an axestrike I have lost The ability to see Now my child, your time hath ...

Haggard - The Origin

It had already become day as he opened the big wooden door and stepped out of the shadows. The sun had shown behind the eastern forest, bright and warm in a cloudless sky. As his eyes closed, he slowly raised his head. Gently, the morning wind caressed his face and rustled through his long hair The chatter of the birds had become one with the whispers of the black elders, melding with the rhythmic babbling of the little brook, which wound its way to the distance behind the humble grange. But ...

Haggard - Herr Mannelig (Short Version)

All'alba, prima che il sole sorgesse e gli uccelli cantassero la loro dolce canzone La donna del troll della montagna con lingua falsa ed ingannevole propose al signore: Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig mi vorrai sposare Per tutto quello che io dolcemente ti darè? Se vorrai, rispondi solo si o no Farai così o no? Ti darò i dodici mulini che stanno tra Tillo e Terno le macine sono fatte del più rosso rame e le ruote sono cariche d'argento Herr Mannelig, Herr Mannelig mi vorrai sposare per tutto quello ...

Ava Inferi - La Stanza Nera

Give me your hand I'll enlighten your path... Stay all the night with me in here There are secrets to show you Don't be afraid... In this void we will stay Stay all the night with me in here I'm yours... You've found yourself in me These walls silence your fears Give me your hand I'll enlighten your path... Stay all the night with me in here There are secrets to show you Don't be afraid... In this void we will stay Stay all the night with me in here I'm yours... You've found yourself in me These ...