Blood Hails Steel - Steel Hails Fire

On this endless crest
The wind chokes dreams with ice
Unheard, I promise doom
Brother, may you perish!

Careful now, the white line narrows
Your benign smile quickly vanishes
A push, torpid
Unbelieving eyes

I watch the fall
And silently, I wonder
Old summits, slow decay
We are the strong, yet still we crawl

Red glows the horizon – Eternal fire
We starve, then we rot
In the name of the truest God

Sire, call me defiler!
But there are no ties holding me

In these wastelands, lovers come asunder and
I tell the liar
Blood hails steel – Steel hails fire

With a heaving chest
I run down secret paths
To find, in the cave where we’d hide
Uninvited guests by your side

My gift, my rage, my hammer’s kisses
For every conniving pate
No guile, no game

Their throes compose
An inebriant hymn
Blood hails steel – Steel hails fire

In winter, we drown in snow
In spring, we drown in water
In summer, foul eggs burst
We drown in blood

Ferakhia
Hardship, pain, penury
Karakh, chthonic terror
The numbing frost, short-lived relief

Under lurid skies
I flee the tainted ground
Shattered fists
This deed so dire
Blood hails steel – Steel hails fire

I keep wandering
Frozen, my heart retreats
Blood hails steel – Steel hails fire

Of sanity
A hole remains
In the end, the light wanes
Blood hails steel – Steel hails fire

The crests unmoved
Flashing laughter
Primal fear as I slowly tire
Blood hails steel – Steel hails fire