Ode from the Mountains of Bothzak-L'elan Vital

[ti:Ode from the Mountains of Bothzak] [ar:L'elan Vital] [al:The Wink and The Gun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ode from the Mountains of Bothzak - L'elan Vital [00:14.43]Once in a land of darkness--long ago--when all the [00:20.09]Earth was covered in darkness and shadow under a spell [00:24.97]Of an evil sorceress witch [00:27.86]The people cried for deliverance [00:31.91]And no child was born for many a long year [00:41.01] [00:42.65]Out of the mountains of Bothzak a hero did answer their [00:46.11]Call: riding forth upon his stalwart steed [00:51.91]Brandishing the heirloom of his house: the jewel encrusted claymore [00:59.09] [01:09.61]Forth he rode into the night [01:11.44]Slaying foes great and small [01:13.97]And all evil did flee before this valiant hero and [01:18.49]The might of the jewel-encrusted claymore [01:25.81]At last the hero came to the evil witch's realm and [01:29.08]Lo he looked upon the barren wasteland: frozen and [01:32.98]Dry where no life could take hold [01:38.55]And with his claymore he smote the witch's minions [01:42.73]And at long last stood face to face with her [01:48.73]And he did run her through with his claymore [01:51.80]Piercing the soft flesh beneath the witch's callous exterior [01:54.67]She gave a cry of pain and--yet it seemed to all that [02:07.55]Did witness--possibly a cry of ecstasy [02:09.06]As well And behold impossibly he saw that she was [02:18.49]Unharmed and fair now to look upon [02:23.56]The skies of the land opened upon the Earth and life began to blood anew [02:32.10] [02:33.53]She looked upon him and said [02:35.74]"Oh most valiant of heroes [02:36.86]Thou hast delivered me from a fate worse than death [02:43.09]Verily I beseech you wilt thou pierce me with thy [02:47.04]Jewel-encrusted claymore once more [02:48.67]" And so he did and all the land rejoiced