The Hound

There lies a beast Near the top of the stairs Weary and weak In its final years Still at times you'll hear Hear it howl Howl at the wind A low haunted lament For the glorious times spent Stalking the halls Of the tower Close to the sovereign's seat the wretched beast lies Dreary and riddled with lice Frail, weak, and dirty Fur patched and thin It barely bothers to shake off the flies Its years of glory now long past and gone Its body quakes, throbbing in its shame Of its fall from grandeur into the abyss To the oblivion of the useless and the maimed I used to hear it call my name But the howl turned to a wail As the hound yearns The past burns the beast At the top of the stairs So weary and weak In its final years Still at times you'll hear Hear it howl Howl at the wind A low haunted lament For the glorious times spent Stalking the halls The halls of the tower The halls of the tower The halls of the tower The halls The halls of the Hear the beast's reigning call A ghost from the past chasing through every hall A feeble shadow of what was once feared by us all A reluctant derelict from a bygone time Still sending shivers down many a spine But a stranger still Among its own kind This pitiful ghost Oh, I miss it still Oh, I miss it so Oh, I miss it so By the beast's reigning cry By the beast's reigning cry By the beast's reigning cry And the hound keeps calling As it used to know our names But it can't recall them As its grip did slowly And the hound keeps calling As it used to know our names But it can't recall them As its grip did slowly wane And the hound keeps calling (Hear it call) As its world keeps falling (Hear it call) And the hound keeps calling (Hear it call) As its world keeps falling (Hear it call) And the hound keeps calling (Hear it call) As its world keeps falling (Hear it call) And the hound keeps calling (Hear it call) As its world keeps falling (Hear it call) And the hound keeps calling (Hear it call) As its world keeps falling (Hear it call) And the hound keeps calling (Hear it call) As its world keeps falling