Army of the Dead
Heath Allyn
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'Twas the autumn of the year, that the blood moon did appear Above my little town beneath the hill And the few that did survive, will remember all their lives How the rest of us, we took a sudden chill So, they carried me away to a cold and shallow grave With a hundred other of my nameless kin And there they bid us lay 'till the final judgement day When the hand of God will wipe away our sin But my tale begins again with a man that swore revenge On the lord who took his raven-headed bride With a book his only friend that was bound in human skin He devised a way to reach the other side (Oh, he found a way to reach the other side) Just a shovel and a cart and some necromantic arts Really did the trick to roll away the stone Just as pretty as you please, did I rattle to my knees And I bowed my skull before the lord of bones There's no wine, there's no bread, in the Army of the Dead And we couldn't tell you any of our names So, don't beg, and don't plead, we've forgotten how to bleed But we'll teach you how to do it, just the same Now the knights of the keep swore they'd put us back to sleep And to stop us at the crossing of the ford So, at dawn they chose to ride with the river on their side Between us and their rich and noble lord With half a thousand men and two hundred of their friends They trampled down our bones along the bank But we got back up again and we gave a muddy grin As we added seven hundred to our ranks There's no wine, there's no bread, in the Army of the Dead And we couldn't tell you any of our names So, don't beg, and don't plead, we've forgotten how to bleed But we'll teach you how to do it, just the same With our footmen, six feet deep, and some mounted cavalry All ridin' on the horses that we killed So, we stopped to thank the lord for providin' us the horde As we stood before his castle on the hill With the wind against our back, 'neath a banner painted black We set our boney sockets on the prize And the men along the wall, pissed their britches, one and all When they saw the fi-re burnin' in our eyes (Battle Cry) There's no wine, there's no bread, in the Army of the Dead And we couldn't tell you any of our names So, don't beg, and don't plead, we've forgotten how to bleed But we'll teach you how to do it, just the same Oh, we left no stone unturned as we watched the castle burn But we never found the maiden anywhere And the lord upon his knees, begged us, "Spare me, if you please For I never touched the girl with raven hair" "It was on our wedding night that the maiden took her life With the silver-handled dagger that I wear And her spirit, I am told, haunts the crossing of the roads With a veil of white upon her ebon hair" (Anguished Scream) ("Bring him!") With her skin as white as frost where the highway makes a cross The master found his raven-headed bride And so, we end our tale with the lifting of a veil As he found a way to reach the other side (And she found a way to reach the other side) 'Twas a cold and moonless night that he spoke his final rite And he lives on now, forever with his wife And the book the devil wrote wears a rich and noble coat That we tailored with a silver-handled knife (Hoo-Rah!) With our swords painted red, in the Army of the Dead There's no man alive would dare to speak our name! So don't weep, and don't cry, we've forgotten how to die But we'll teach you how to do it, just the same! Please don't weep, please don't cry, we've forgotten how to die But we'll teach you how to do it, just the same
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