Winter Saga I: Before the Winter Comes Lyrics

Before the winter comes

Make peace with your gods

For no hope lasts with men

When the summer sets

I feel the gusts of September's wind

It calls to me, to a fixture in my past

Of the day that a season found me

And left its mark upon my visions

My kingdom cold is fast approaching

I still remember my first view of vastness

White fire swept clean the earth

Leaving desolate the plains of this world

A glacial reckoning of what's to come

Tree bark splits and crystals form

Beginning of a new chapter

Turn the page to see what happens

Archaic in an aftermath

Before the start of autumnal collapse

Batten down the hatches

Prepare for a pale darkness

O, winter is coming

Mother Nature and Mother Earth conspire

To end the infernal months

And begin illustrious duration

Glisten for me precious seasons

You give freedom to my words

On hands and knees I beg

Release me from perpetual scorn

Gazing upon grey skies

Watchful for signs of life

That clouds of dark split wide

A rift for snowfall deep inside

When the warmth begins to fade

I feel pleasure in my knowledge

That once the forest bleeds

Old Man Winter shall rear his head

The one eyed wanderer

Two crows circling the sky

Might spear Gungnir in hand

Trudging through depths on land

Gift from the heavens

So majestic in your movement

I call to thee

Beseeched to an early arrival

I was born as a son of the frost

Destined as a prophet of cold

A soothing shade of winter

In a forest murdered by ice

This is my path through life

To impeach the genesis of spring

Endure the harshness of heat

And pray for my beloved's return

The drudkh of forests charred

Burned by a cold sliver fire

Still in woodlands, stillborn wood

Born of ash in an ancient world

Return to the cradle of life

Zenith of a grandiose design

Watch the stars as I become skyclad

The progeny of pagan gods

As much a son as I am a daughter

Borne of the tempered water

The temple of temperance

A dedication to absence of progress

Soaring 'cross the ageless sky

Black ravens of a smouldering high

Feathering falling of symbolic might

A prophecy of what lies in sight

A blanket of death precedes you

The forest floor, a graveyard

Before duality encompasses all

Smothering all that was left behind

Abandon all that you've ever known

The compass points towards what north is shown

A journey to my point of dawning

Where the goddess birthed me, at the edge of a world

Universal inheritance

Weightless and drifting

When the polar winds are blowing

Where the solar winds are growing

I watch lifeblood drain away

Bathed in frost from a thawed domain

Realm drenched in white, life withers away

A legend of reborn immortality

Stare into the reflecting pools

But don't step through

A muted glistening, listening

Close to the nocturne