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Marillion
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(Derek Dick)
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I. Heorot's plea and Grendel's awakening
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Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk
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Mountain echo, curfews bell, signal ending tasks
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They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight
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The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as Grendel stalks the night
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Earth rim walker seeks his meals
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Prepare the funeral pyres
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The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear
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Within their eyes, [their eyes]
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Wooden figures, pagan gods, stare blindly cross the sea
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Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviour born of dreams
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They know their lives are forfeit now, priestly head they bow in shame
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They cannot face the trembling crowd that flinch in Grendel's name
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Earth rim walker seeks his meals
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Prepare the funeral pyres
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The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear
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Within their eyes, [their eyes]
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As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere
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Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear
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He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify
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His claws will drip with mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky
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As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere
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Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear
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He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify
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His claws will drip with mortal blood, as moonbeams haunt the sky
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Earth rim walker seeks his meals
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Prepare the funeral pyres
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The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear
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Within their eyes, [their eyes]
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-=o=-=o=-
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II. Grendel's Journey
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Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew
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Denizens of twilight lands humbly beg him through
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Mother nature's bastard child shunned by leaf and stream
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An alien in an alien land seeks solace within dreams
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The shaper's lies his poisoned tongue malign with mocking harp
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Beguiling queen her innocence offends his icy heart
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-=o=-=o=-
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III. Lurker at the Threshold
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Hounds freeze in silence bewitched by the reptile spell
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Sulphurous essence pervades round the grassy dell
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Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butcher's knife
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Stellular heavens ignore even children's cries
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Screams are his music, lightning his guide
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Raping the darkness, d-d-death by his side
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Chants rise in terror, free round the oaken beams
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Flickering firelight portraying the grisly scene
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Warriors advance, prepare for the nightmare foe
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Futile their sacrifice as even their hearts must know
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Heroes delusion, with feet in the grave
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Lurker at the threshold, he cares not for the brave, he cares not for the brave
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-=o=-=o=-
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IV. Finale
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So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out
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You should have known better after all this time
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You're gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander
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With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes
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Why should I feel pity when you kill your own and feel no shame
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God's on my side, sure as hell
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I'm gonna take no blame
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I'm gonna take no blame
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I'm gonna take no blame
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So you say you believe in all of Mother Nature's laws
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You lust for gold with your sharpened knives
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Oh when your hoards are gathered and your enemies left to rot
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You pray with your bloodstained hands at the feet of your pagan gods
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Then you try to place the killer's blade in my hand
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You call for justice and distort the truth
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Well I've had enough of all your pretty pretty speeches
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Receive your punishment
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Expose your throats to my righteous claws
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And let the blood flow, and [let the blood flow], flow, flow, flow.
Grendel - Marillion (lyrics)
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