Kingslayers

Madness laid waste, the kingslayers rise

Lost and forsaken, our kingdom’s demise

Ravens on blackened bough

Call through the mist and snow

One last goodbye to you now

With the wolves at our door, you just stood

All the signs I foretold you ignored

With your enemies out for your rich royal blood

Your pride took your life just as sure as the sword

No ballads are sung, no immortal life

Just royal bones ravaged by fire and ice

Left to rot where you fell

No mourners, no burial

One last goodbye to you now

With the wolves at our door, you just stood

All the signs I foretold you ignored

With your enemies out for your rich royal blood

Your pride took your life just as sure as the sword

Our moment of splendor now death and decay

None will remember the grace of our reign

The long years of peace now gone

The fierce loyalties undone

One last goodbye to you now

Mortuus est

Autem rex

Vivat rex

Gloria in Deo

You heeded my warnings before

But pride made you hunger for war

No reign of splendor lasts

All years of plenty pass

The Die of Fate is cast

Bloodlust wins at last

White wolves are howling a requiem

Another night falls to another red dawn

Ravens rise, circle round

You lie cold in the ground

My last goodbye to you now

Through courtyards of carnage and flame

With our child in my arms I escaped

His bloodline concealed now and forevermore

No kingslayers plotting, no wolves at the door