Man Of Iron lyrics

Song information

Artist: Bathory
Album: Blood On Ice

Lyrics

I have paced these forests for so long I don't know if I am man or I am beast
I, though, hold deep within me a quest for revenge
Then I must be a man as much as I can be

I have learned to speak the tongue of the animal
I have learned to read the signs in bark and snow
I have taken within myself the spirits of my fathers
Long time gone
In this short time, far from home, a man of iron I've grown
A man of iron I have grown

A part of the eternal woods..
Late evening..

["Just after sunset on his way back to his camp after watching the sun unite]
[With the mountains in the west, he sees the flickering of light between the]
[Tree trunks. approaching, he sees an old man sitting calmly by a fire, as]
[If waiting for him. his left eye missing. his beard as if gold. the signs]
[On his cloak and hood familiar. the one eyed old man matches the]
[Description of the soothsayer, as told by the elders of his village by the]
[Fires at night when he only a child. the boy, now a young man, eager to]
[Know, asks the one eyed old man about his dreams. dreams he cannot]
[Understand. dreams about strange things he is seeing himself doing. then]
[The winds that seem to talk to him. voices that whisper to him behind his]
[Back. the one eyed old man tells him of the cycles of the stars, of the]
[Trail of fate and of the valley where time and space had ceased to exist...]
[Where his world ends and the shadows begin. the one eyed old man tells the]
[Young man that fate has chosen him to interfere with the other world. the]
[Disturbance is already made. the daughters of the four winds have sold]
[Themselves to the shadows, distorting the balance of the universe. and the]
[One eyed old man says he has seen him come for a thousand years, and that]
[The aging gods have told him to teach him all that he has ever known and to]
[Prepare him to ride beyond his world and into the shadows as their champion]
[To restore the balance. to his aid he shall be given a sword forged when]
[This world was young. he shall be guarded and guided by two ravens, and he]
[Shall ride the eight-legged stallion of his fathers' god. he will encounter]
[The woodwoman, and he will make a visit to the lake. one hundred days and]
[One hundred nights his training shall be hard. and this very night it will]
[Already have begun.]
[And thus he had met the one eyed old man..."]

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