Marillion - Grendel lyrics
(derek dick)<br><br>I. heorot's plea and grendel's awakening<br><br>Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk<br>Mountain echo, curfews bell, signal ending tasks<br>They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight<br>The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as grendel stalks the night<br><br>Earth rim walker seeks his meals<br>Prepare the funeral pyres<br>The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear<br>Within their eyes, [their eyes]<br><br>Wooden figures, pagan gods, stare blindly cross the sea<br>Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviour born of dreams<br>They know their lives are forfeit now, priestly head they bow in shame<br>They cannot face the trembling crowd that flinch in grendel's name<br><br>Earth rim walker seeks his meals<br>Prepare the funeral pyres<br>The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear<br>Within their eyes, [their eyes]<br><br>As grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere<br>Along the forest path he roams to hrothgar's hall so clear<br>He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify<br>His claws will drip with mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky<br><br>As grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere<br>Along the forest path he roams to hrothgar's hall so clear<br>He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify<br>His claws will drip with mortal blood, as moonbeams haunt the sky<br><br>Earth rim walker seeks his meals<br>Prepare the funeral pyres<br>The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear<br>Within their eyes, [their eyes]<br><br>-=o=-=o=-<br><br>Ii. grendel's journey<br><br>Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew<br>Denizens of twilight lands humbly beg him through<br>Mother nature's bastard child shunned by leaf and stream<br>An alien in an alien land seeks solace within dreams<br>The shaper's lies his poisoned tongue malign with mocking harp<br>Beguiling queen her innocence offends his icy heart<br><br>-=o=-=o=-<br><br>Iii. lurker at the threshold<br><br>Hounds freeze in silence bewitched by the reptile spell<br>Sulphurous essence pervades round the grassy dell<br>Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butcher's knife<br>Stellular heavens ignore even children's cries<br><br>Screams are his music, lightning his guide<br>Raping the darkness, d-d-death by his side<br><br>Chants rise in terror, free round the oaken beams<br>Flickering firelight portraying the grisly scene<br>Warriors advance, prepare for the nightmare foe<br>Futile their sacrifice as even their hearts must know<br><br>Heroes delusion, with feet in the grave<br>Lurker at the threshold, he cares not for the brave, he cares not for the brave<br><br>-=o=-=o=-<br><br>Iv. finale<br><br>So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out<br>You should have known better after all this time<br>You're gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander<br>With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes<br>Why should I feel pity when you kill your own and feel no shame<br>God's on my side, sure as hell<br>I'm gonna take no blame<br>I'm gonna take no blame<br>I'm gonna take no blame<br><br>So you say you believe in all of mother nature's laws<br>You lust for gold with your sharpened knives<br>Oh when your hoards are gathered and your enemies left to rot<br>You pray with your bloodstained hands at the feet of your pagan gods<br><br>Then you try to place the killer's blade in my hand<br>You call for justice and distort the truth<br>Well I've had enough of all your pretty pretty speeches<br>Receive your punishment<br>Expose your throats to my righteous claws<br>And let the blood flow, and [let the blood flow], flow, flow, flow.
