VERSE 1:
Fields fade and warm days age and. Summer suns grow weak.
Shades sleep and shadows creeping come. Dim dreams as fear comes near and Doom knows what it seeks.
Dark and dank to thank when death has won.
On Valhalla’s steps the laws of death are Easy to forget, when the
Power rests with those who cheat so well. The gods above and those they love share Asgard’s golden rest, while the
Greater part of life is cast to...
To me who can see with
Mother’s eyes beyond the dark below A witch’s vision of the
World above that I have never
Tasted, I am wasted by your
Father’s fear of what I could have been And what he made me
Be in the land of the
CHORUS:
Abandoned men, abandoned place,
Abandoned world, abandoned race,
Abandoned you, abandoned me,
Abandoned all to the Hel of the abandoned.
VERSE 2:
When ice-born Jotuns meet our end we
Fade to senseless dust unless
Darker spells compel the will to stay
But Odin fashioned humans with
Eternal souls in trust, that don’t
Even have the choice to fade away.
When ice-born Jotuns meet our end we
Fade to senseless dust, unless
Spells keep spirits bound as witches
Choose
But Odin fashioned humans with
Eternal souls in trust, that must
Wait and hate and rot their long night
Through...
True
Like I do now
Waiting for the cock that never crows.
Only one end Patient ’til when
Ragnarok comes
And ends it. Your
Father always planning for
Tomorrow not today
And pretending it’s the best the Norns allow.
He granted me dominion over
Souls he casts away
Never thinking such a gift would matter
Who I knew as
Nothing but a stranger’s distant name
That others cling to
Nothing but
Promises and
Prophecies. The
Souls down here are
Eager to stay with you and Desperate to pray to you and Quick to embrace you
Now that the sun has
Come to the dark, without your
Warmth without your hope without your Light, who were so far
And tried so hard
But fell to me. They con-
-tinue to pray to you,
Beg to be saved by you, but
What can you offer them now?
Men love you, beasts love you,
Stones love you, seas love you,
They loved you once, but you
Stay our foe
CHORUS:
Abandoned them, abandoned place,
Abandoned world, abandoned race,
Abandoned you, abandoned me,
Abandoned all to the Hel of the Abandoned
VERSE 3:
You knew
There were races that were
Older than the worlds you made.
There were Reasons that my father sat alone.
There were monsters in the darkness that your brothers sealed away But we never called you “cousin” only
Crone
Enemy
How could I see beyond the labels and the war?
Which must come, so certain since our fathers made it so.
Fathers made us go
Down here, where I can hear with Mother’s ears a father’s curses, Shrieking in his shackles, not
Too close, but not too far to feel his
Heat, his leaking rage, its lava creep,
That always churns and never sleeps
Your father waits to see him weep
But he waits only for the war.
Heat, his leaking rage, its lava creep,
That always churns and never sleeps
Your father waits to see him weep
But he waits only for the war
Soon it’s coming, say it’s coming
Soon our battle and our end.
Soon it’s coming, say it’s coming
Soon our battle, our revenge.
Soon it’s coming, soon we’re
Here waiting for the cock that never crows.
Soon it’s coming, keep it coming
Soon our battle
For if you rejoin the living world, forgiving and forget
And the stones and seas and Odin too renounce their grim revenge
And forgiveness heals Yggdrasil, and peace stays strong
Then we wait and wait
And wait and wait
Then to please the fleeting living you Condemn the frozen to wait on.
And they would have waited too.
Anything for you.
Just so you can warm the living
They consent, the patient dead
To wait on
They love you, they love you
They love you, they love you
Bird, every beast, every
Ghost, every god except one
Heat, his leaking rage, its lava creep,
That always churns and never sleeps
Your father waits to see him weep
But he waits only for the war
Which must come, so
Certain since our fathers made it so,
Certain since our fathers won’t let go.
I think on our fathers, the choices they made
And I almost believe there was no other way,
But we wait and we watch and the anger it fades
still there is no hope of rescue until both our fathers change
FINAL CHORUS:
And they abandoned us, abandoned place,
Abandoned world, abandoned race,
Abandoned you, abandoned me,
Abandoned all to the Hel when we
Accepted death, accepted war,
No longer try to change its course,
Abandoned life, abandoned hope,
Abandoned all to the Hel of the Abandoned
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