Dark Avenger-Manowar

[ti:Dark Avenger] [ar:Manowar] [al:Battle Hymns] [offset:0] [00:43.55]He broke the laws of the elders [00:48.04]So they plucked out his eye [00:53.16]Took his land and fortune [00:57.60]Left him to die [01:02.96]Bound on the shoreline [01:04.58] [01:07.43]Left for the tide [01:11.61]Sees his life blood leaving [01:15.42] [01:16.73]Circling lower the vultures fly [01:24.03] [01:24.77]These bones may be broken [01:29.45]But the spirit cant die [01:34.01]And the gods see his anguish [01:38.83]And give him a sign [01:43.32]From the floor of the ocean [01:47.06]The ship of the lost souls rise [01:53.60]And they take him where no one sleeps [02:00.87]While the undead cry [02:06.61]Where no one sleeps while the undead cry [02:11.19] [02:16.74]And in the world above [02:21.98]The elders sing [02:25.80] [02:26.48]On his land they live [02:30.10] [02:30.98]Let deaths bell ring [02:35.56] [02:37.37]He was met at the gate of hades [02:39.99]By the guardian of the lost souls [02:42.99]The keeper of the unavenged [02:43.99] [02:44.74]And he did say to him [02:48.17]Let you not pass abandon return to the world from once you came [02:56.22]And seek payment not only for thy known anguish [02:59.47] [03:00.97]But vindicate the souls of the unavenged [03:04.79] [03:06.45]And placed they in his hands a sword made for him called vengeance [03:12.26]Forged in brimstone and tempered by the woeful tears of the unavenged [03:17.71]And to carry him up on his journey back to the upper world [03:21.58]They brought forth their demon horse called black death [03:27.81]A grim steed so fiercely might and black in colour [03:33.43]That he could stand as one with the darkness [03:37.91]Save from his burning eyes of crimson fire [03:41.35]And on that night they rode up from hell [03:46.41]The pounding of his hooves did clap like thunder [03:56.71] [04:24.73]Burning death destruction raping the daughters and wives [04:29.85]In blood I take my payment in full with their lives [04:35.79]No one can escape me on black death I ride [04:40.91]When kissed by the sword of vengeance [04:43.53]Your head lays there by your side [04:47.21]I take the lives of all that I once knew [04:51.34]The torn flesh of a slow death waits for you [04:57.25] [04:57.98]Burning death destruction raping the daughters and wives [05:03.34]In blood I take my payment in full with their lives [05:08.75]I spare not land or servants my wake is slow dead there [05:14.30]I take their wives and daughters [05:17.11]They stand there watching watching [05:19.77]Hoping to get my life but when Im through they know they must pay burning death distruction raping the daughters and wives in blood i take my payment in full with their lives with their lives with their lives