Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Havoc on Holy Island, artist - Forefather. Album song Curse of the Cwelled, in the genre Метал
Date of issue: 16.08.2015
Record label: Seven Kingdoms
Song language: English
Havoc on Holy Island |
In placid halls beside the tide |
The tiresome scrape of quill on hide |
Passes every plodding hour |
In the care of a hollow power |
Lying alone, treasures abound |
Spells sent forth throughout the lands |
But stubborn hearts are not beguiled |
Beyond the waves a wrath is riled |
Longships break the waters |
Dragonfire paints the sky |
Anger rends the silence |
Harried by a wild warcry |
Relics through ravaged altars |
White Christ servants flee |
Havoc on Holy Island |
Punishment from the sea |
A lonesome life they embrace |
Walled within this hallowed space |
Toiling for a higher cause |
Loyal slaves to heavenly laws |
Macabre rites with rag and bone |
Praise to corporal idols shown |
But empty words cannot resist |
Whirlwinds wreck the fragile bliss |
Solo: Wulfstan |
So he bade them go, carry forth |
To the daunting halls of the north |
Promise of salvation they brought |
Pilgrims in a distant domain |
Wily words spreading like a plague |
So was a land led astray |
'Her wæron reðe forebecna cumene ofer Norðhymbra land,…ormete þodenas and |
ligrescas, and fyrenne dracan wæron gesewene on þam lifte fleogende. |
Þam tacnum sona fyligde mycel hunger,… earmlice hæþenra manna hergunc |
adilegode Godes cyrican in Lindisfarnaee…' - AS Chronicle 793 |
(Here came dreadful forewarnings over the land of the Northumbrians: |
huge whirlwinds and flashes of light, and firey dragons flying in the sky. |
After these tokens soon followed much hunger, and the harrying of wretched |
heathen men destroyed God’s church on Lindisfarne.) |
Longships break the waters |
Dragonfire paints the sky |
Anger rends the silence |
Harried by a wild warcry |
Relics through ravaged altars |
White Christ servants flee |
Havoc on Holy Island |
Punishment from the sea |