The Revenant King

Out across the foothills they rode Banners as black as their souls As a winter sky loomed above Pale as the wind-driven snow I have seen this day in my dreams The hour of my doom drawing nigh Black blades of treachery draw forth my aging blood And I fall, dying on the cold stones of my throne Retake the usurper's throne The blades of our fallen burst forth with the revenant's breath Destined to fight, even in death These are the bones that they thought they had shattered But we'll never rest Immortal blood courses through my veins I won't be denied; your battle's lost in vain I have returned to reclaim my rightful throne From realms beyond the waking world We'll rend your flesh from bone There the young man sits on my throne Surrounded by ill-gotten gains Ebon hair and eyes black like coal Murder and thievery his way I see the horror gripping his mind As we descend on his ranks A thousand men they thought they had killed ride out from the woods And our steel thirsts for betrayers' flesh and blood Retake the usurper's throne The blades of our fallen burst forth with the revenant's breath Destined to fight, even in death These are the bones that they thought they had shattered But we'll never rest Immortal blood courses through my veins I won't be denied; your battle's lost in vain I have returned to reclaim my rightful throne From realms beyond the waking world We'll rend your flesh from bone We traveled realms beyond the crystal moon And shadowed keeps Where mighty serpents stalked ensorcelled seas And ice-crowned peaks So here we are to bring your end my friend And none shall week Betrayal's debt paid in your foul blood The price is steep We are revenant We have returned So bow your heads We are your doom The hoarfrost breaks as steel-shod hooves Make known their presence to the night And fires rise against the starwheel, casting smoke into the sky My bloodline was and always will be rightful heirs to this old throne Your life will slake the soil's thirst for sacrifice and blooded stone Immortal blood courses through my veins I won't be denied; your battle's lost in vain I have returned to reclaim my rightful throne From realms beyond the waking world We'll rend your flesh from bone