Manowar - Dark Avenger lyrics

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Dark Avenger Lyrics

He broke the laws of the elders

So they plucked out his eye,

Took his land and fortune,

Left him to die

Bound on the shoreline,

Left for the tide,

Sees his life blood leaving...

Circling lower the vultures fly

These bones may be broken

But the spirit can't die

And the Gods see his anguish

And give him a sign

From the floor of the ocean

The ship of the lost souls rise

And they take him where no one sleeps

while the undead cry

Where no one sleeps while the undead cry

And in the world above

The elders sing,

On his land they live

Let death's bell ring

He was met at the gate of Hades

By the Guardian of the Lost Souls,

The Keeper of the Unavenged

And He did say to him:

"Let ye not pass Abbadon but return to the world from once ye came

And seek payment not only for thine own anguish

But to vindicate the souls of the Unavenged"

And they placed in his hands a sword made for him called Vengeance

Forged in brimstone and tempered by the woeful tears of the Unavenged

And to carry him up on his journey back to the upper world

They brought forth their Demon horse called Black Death

A grim steed so fearsome in might and black in colour

That he could stand as one with the darkness

Save for his burning eyes of crimson fire

And on that night they rode up from Hell

The pounding of his hooves did clap like thunder

Burning, death, destruction raping the daughters and wives

In blood I take my payment in full with their lives

No one can escape me on Black Death I ride

When kissed by the sword of Vengeance

Your head lays there by your side

I take the lives of all that I once knew

The torn flesh of a slow death waits for you

Burning, death, destruction raping the daughters and wives

In blood I take my payment in full with their lives

I spare not land or servants my wake is slow death there

I take their wives and daughters

They stand there watching, watching

Hoping to get my life but when I'm through they know they must pay

Burning, death, destruction raping the daughters and wives

In blood I take my payment in full with their lives

With their lives!

With their lives!