THORIUM LYRICS

1. March Of The Eastern Tribe

[Instrumental]

2. Ostrogoth

Eastbound, arise! It's avoiding demise
We are conquering lands to our West
Forced to the Danube by Huns and misfortune
It's time to take hold of our lives

More nomads than tribe, on the run to survive
Our kings have sworn to divide
It's the end of all fears, the new Era appears
When Alatheus and Safrax collide

We are the Ostrogoth!
Your lives will be spared if you
Bow down to the Ostrogoth!
New kingdom declared

Our kingdom is born, Roman class overwon
From now on we won't be denied
First Issonzo to fall, then Verona's last call
The empire of Rome, dead and gone

Theodoric The Great, ruler of our new state
Kings and nobles submit!
Gone the glory of Rome, all bow down 'fore the throne
In Ravenna they're all off the grid

We are the Ostrogoth!
Your lives will be spared if you
Bow down to the Ostrogoth!
New kingdom declared

Many wars have been fought, new horizons been sought
Years passed by, now lurks the fall
Final battle decides: survival or demise
The outcome a total recall

It's the end of our creed, caused by fatal defeat
Gone are lands we possessed
An annotation in time, we end up down the line
Ostrogoth's back in distress

We are the Ostrogoth!
Your lives will be spared if you
Bow down to the Ostrogoth!
New kingdom declared

3. Court Of Blood

Deo Patrum Nostrorum

A call to arms in the year of Valletta
Conspiracy under a Calvinistic ploy
Iconoclasts, who'd see our rulers' roles recast
An ignominy that just cannot be ignored

Spain won't stand for this damned indignation
Open defiance in the province of mills
All you who of Reform do sing
Out of your mouths remorse I'll wring

Oh, for country, king and kin
A Troubled Council I bring
Laments of a thousand men
Their rights rescinded and wrest down to Hell

Oh my brothers, who fought so brave beside me
Lords of Egmont and Horn
Even your heads I'll see roll with tears in my eyes
My tyranny to atone for your apostasy

I will stand in defence of the chantry
And I will see this through 'til the end
For God and King
Unto your neck the blade shall swing

Oh, down the Spanish Road
I carry your reproach
A force ten thousand strong
A rebel nation right overrun

Oh, call me Iron and rot
Enter my Court of Blood
All your cities under siege
The price you pay for your heresy

4. Godspeed

We play hide-and-seek in helium fields
And speak without a sound
The Grand Cycle of all things our merry-go-round
Ours is a playground unbound

We slingshot around the Milky Way
On our way to Andromeda or some place further away
It's but a question of Time

Godspeed to you in everything you do
And safe returns again
Godspeed to you wherever you may go
And hold your heading true

So we set our dials to Godspeed
And watch the world grow old
As we converse with the quasars
The speed of light a laughing matter
And matter but a question of light and speed

Godspeed to you in everything you do
And safe returns again
Godspeed to you wherever you may walk
I know we'll pull through

Now I'm not afraid to deal with these feelings
'Cause I'd rather go today than I would tomorrow
Even in the dusk of day there still shines a sliver
Of the silver line that lighted my yesterdays

Step right up, to see the world spin on my fingertips! Yeah!

Godspeed to you in everything you do
And safe returns again
Godspeed to you wherever you may go
And hold your heading

5. Icons Fall

Emptiness is all of a sudden
Transformation of accountability
Beyond our powers to be and to believe

Where we stood, a place called our save haven
It has altered our path, our destiny
And we realise that our idolatry wasn't meant to be

I don't want to see the blood, feel the flood
As darkness sets inside our world when icons fade
Will there be a vast new life, we're bound to strife
And so it lingers, yearning what was in control

Lifelong creeds of vast illusive wisdom
Gathered through the things we have achieved
Have defined the structures we hold on to

In order to perform our daily doses
Into a self-created world of slavery
Building skyscrapers to reach infinity; avoid mortality

Eliminate the borderline, control decline
And darkness sets inside the world you ought to know
Will we see the light of day brought to decay
It slowly withers when icons fall and fade away

And in the afterlife, when all that mattered faded
Reveal the truth for the blind to see
So now we're devastated, only our heart is left to be
Without the mind, there's liberty

I don't want to see the blood, feel the flood
As darkness sets inside our world when icons fade
Will we see the light of day brought to decay
It slowly withers when icons fall and fade away

And in the afterlife, when all that mattered faded
Revealed the truth for the blind to see
So now we're devastated, only our hearts are there to beat
Without the mind, there's liberty

6. Powder And Arms

Fontenoy, 1745

I'm a fusilier in the first battalion
Under orders from George
To safeguard all the British Empire
We're taught never to surrender
And that a man must stand his ground

And we see the cannon's ammunition a-flying
O'er the battlefield's roar

Oh, we live but for today
For tomorrow may be a burst of fire away
Yea, I joined the fold
Of the old and the bold
With powder and arms

Port Royal, 1691

I'm a privateer with an ache for adventure
Corsair, if you will
Running wild and free on the high seas
We crave the ecstasy and danger
Of the fight; the frenzy of the fray

So we trim the sails at daybreak
And let 'em fly into the world's end

Oh, they'll fear us far and wide
Oh, to rags or riches, this day'll decide
Our souls are sold, for lead or for gold
For powder and arms

Verdun, 1916

Wherefrom the fascination with all things of conflict born
While on words our leaders play?
Between the warring nations no manner of truce be heard
So down the runway we go

Our fate lies in the air
For the eagle's eye we share
Into the clouds we fly
Us knights of the sky
With powder and arms

7. All Manner Of Light

Falling through fate and through time
Where all men are led astray
And all things must fade away

Climbed from the edge of the world; of my mind
Searching for answers inside
None are there to find

Go! The wind and the rain they will set me free
Far and wide they may carry me
Seasons change but I'll follow my way

No more fear for former days
Say goodbye to yesterdays
All your worries will fly
Fly away; find your way

Hold me in mind and I'll be on your side
All will be reconciled
Hold me in mind
On your passage through time
On your wayward way
And I'll hold you in mine

Take me higher, into the clouds
Drive me onwards, ever into the light of day
Never let life pass you by

We are the keepers of all manner of light
Of infinity

Hold me in mind and I'll be on your side
All will be reconciled
Hold me in mind
On your passage through time
On your wayward way
And I'll hold you in mine

8. Return To The Clouds

1939, a world that is torn once again
The precarious peace of 1919 wouldn't last

No matter the odds we can not stand by
The roar of the chalky shore cries 'fly'

Back home, the battle is over and done
But we'll show them a war not so easily won

Gun-metal grey, we blend over the brine
No mettle as mighty as the 609's

High in the sky it seems so far away
The count'nance of home, it will wait 'til another day
A cry of the engine, the heavens our reign
A bold breed reborn, to battle the sky once again

Gathering pace as we race down the runway
The call to scramble crackles the airwaves
Beneath our wheels, the asphalt gives way to the air

Far from the fight, the clouds roll on
O'er old England's ground
A time to recall our land so small
In the calm before the storm

Hard on the rudders, we fling ourselves into the fray
Feel the speed, the Gees and the rush of the chase

Spit fire at any one foe drawing nigh
Too hot, our Merlins are burning the sky

Fly and avail, we yet can prevail!
A newborn creed, to stand ground and never give way
Honour our heroes, the valiant and few
The yellow, the red and black 'mid the Brits in the blue

9. Four By Number, Four By Fate

[Preludium: Rebirth (instrumental)]

[I. All Good Things Come In Fours]

And so we're back again, you see
In perfect symmetry
To draw thee into our symphony

May our clarion call be heard
'Cross the quarters of the earth
The sign of Four to mark our rebirth

Through the seasons as they turn in time
The burden all men binds
The quarters and the hours; the grind

Take the time and you will see
The truth lies in between
A common ground where we can agree

Four by number, four by fate
Oh, four by number, four by fate

If truth is noble, it numbers four
Four, the elements that made up the world of yore

Below the power lies a perfect fourth
Four fingers that keep tabs on the score

Four by number, four by fate
Oh, four by number, four by fate

[Interludium: Threads (instrumental)]

[II. In Full Fours]

Four bases of power, stages of enlightenment
Horsemen that are drawing near
The points on the compass, corners of the world
The states of matter defined

Four the fates, the answers, the movements in this symphony
Drawn into the four winds, where our souls may find symmetry

Four dimensions and four directions, four are the beats to the bar
Four heavenly kings, and four are the strings that shake the foundations of Earth

Four, they are the forces that all things in this world unite
Four the truths, the virtues, that bind the threads of our lives

The princes have returned from restless sleep
The lords of thunder no longer asunder but back
Back in full force

The horsemen are drawing nearer, and there's nowhere to hide
Wither in the mirror; whither weary-eyed?

Four winds dividing all the fighting 'cross the land
Now they're arriving, there's no abiding, you understand

The rivers in Eden, if you believe in mythology
The Freedoms of Franklin, if you confide in history

Three brave companions needed D'Artagnan to save the day
Four set the stages through the ages, paved the way

Four are the faces of the unknown

Light cracks the sky and the heavens doth cry
Thunder roars low on the land
Forth from the sea four great beasts issue free
Our empires crash and fall

And when darkness takes us all, to the ground, into the cold
We learn but earth's our throne
Into Winter we are strewn, and all our summers end too soon
In our prime we're hewn

[Interludium: Cast to the Winds (instrumental)]

[III. Four Magics, Four Myths]

Nights for Freya's jewels
Deer in Yggdrasil
And the dwarves that bear the sky

Oh, the sons of Horus
Steeds of Helios
Dragon Kings and Children of Lir

As in the sky we ride
The Rites of Spring, we find
Ever to Fall allied
Wheels without end

The rhythm onward ever beats
Revolutions never cease
And the night is just a dream
That only flows between

And every season doth have its charm
The chill of the Winter will do you no harm
Autumn leaves will grow back again
And after the snow comes Spring

[Interludium: The Rites of Spring]

We passed the Ivory Gates, and counted days in Lazarus' tomb
Four sights of suff'ring, and creatures by the sapphire throne

[IV. Four Legacies]

The First Empire, the vision of Caesar did rise
The Glory of Rome, the Elysian loam idealized
Then Bonaparte, his plans upon us did compart
A burning ambition the map of Europe drew apart

And then the third did stump them all
The masses moving to the sermon master's call
The madmen rolling out the dice across a world set aflame
On hist'ry their mark, their claim

Oh, we'll build a new kingdom in the sun
Under the lightning flag the tribe will thrum
Our lives have just begun
To head into the long run

What walks on four legs, on two, then on three, then on none?
The answer a shock, and a fate that you cannot outrun

You'll dread the query of the Sphinx
You answer wrongly and then suddenly eyes fix
Upon your throat, the beast, it leaps and drags you into the pit
To Hades; across the Styx

Oh, though a season is all we have
And Time has the last laugh
One and all, we may be grand
Unbowed and tall we stand

Oh, shorn of guise only Man remains
New chances but a day away
And this is goodbye but not farewell
Until we meet again

[Epilogue: Every Season Has Its Charm (instrumental)]







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