Tyrants and Wraiths - Hollenthon

Ballads of death

In killing fields

A new age of fear

A life of kings

Forgotten ones

Concealed in shadows

The piercing wails

Of human flesh

Wraiths… suspended time and fate

Fate… comes knocking at the door

Wraiths… foretell the tyrant’s tale

Wraiths… will sing their glorious songs

Carved for eternity

A name in gold

Seek immortality

In every breath

Yet justice prevails

And in the throes of death

Vengeance is vile

Open the gates of hell

Wraiths… standing the test of time

Time… will only wait so long

Wraiths… foretell the tyrant’s fate

Wraiths… returned to hallowed ground

Columns of rising smoke

Written in wreaths of lies

In unmarked tombs of pain

Silence screams

Unspoken words of valour

Grow louder through the years

Though falling on deaf ears

Are carried by the winds

Relics of sin

Steal the night away

Lurking in sleep

Phantom daffodils

Castles of sand in changing tides

Fall to the scorn of accusing waves

One by one refusing pleas

Digress triumphantly into the seas

As tyrants slowly drown in sacrificial waters

Awaiting wraiths of fabled lore find their peace

Fall back into the mists of fading endless battles

Remembrance following their stoic, solid stride

Wraiths… standing the test of time

Wraiths… recall the tyrant’s fate

Wraiths… returned to hallowed ground

Wraiths… sing their glory