Dark Avenger Lyrics by Manowar

Dark Avenger Lyrics

    He broke the laws of the elders
    So they plucked out his eye,
    Took his land and fortune,
    Left him to die

    Bound on the shoreline,
    Left for the tide,
    See's his life blood leaving...
    Circling lower the vultures fly

    These bones may be broken
    But the spirit can't die
    And the Gods see his anguish
    And give him a sign

    From the floor of the ocean
    The ship of the lost souls rise
    And they take him where no one sleeps
    while the undead cry
    Where no one sleeps while the undead cry

    And in the world above
    The elders sing,
    On his land they live
    Let death's bell ring

    He was met at the gate of Hades
    By the Guardian of the Lost Souls,
    The Keeper of the Unavenged
    And He did say to him:
    "Let you not pass abandon return to the world from once you came
    And seek payment not only for thy known anguish
    But vindicate the souls of the Unavenged"

    And they placed in his hands a sword made for him called Vengeance
    Forged in brimstone and tempered by the woeful tears of the Unavenged

    And to carry him up on his journey back to the upper world
    They brought forth their Demon horse called Black Death
    A grim steed so fiercely might and black in colour
    That he could stand as one with the darkness
    Save from his burning eyes of crimson fire

    And on that night they rode up from Hell
    The pounding of his hooves did clap like thunder

    Burning, death, destruction raping the daughters and wives
    In blood I take my payment in full with their lives

    No one can escape me on Black Death I ride
    When kissed by the sword of Vengeance
    Your head lays there by your side
    I take the lives of all that I once knew
    The torn flesh of a slow death waits for you

    Burning, death, destruction raping the daughters and wives
    In blood I take my payment in full with their lives

    I spare not land or servants my wake is slow dead there
    I take their wives and daughters
    They stand there watching, watching
    Hoping to get my life but when I'm through they know they must pay


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