Steel Seal

Midnight, my heart is aching and a numbness pains My sense as too much I'd drunk, Or by, a sleeping-potion emptied to the drains In the darkness I had sunk In the still of my room, I close my eyes and try to call your name But no one is there anymore

Babels of blocks tow ring up to the sky Rivers of people below Poisonous smoke clouds That rise slow and high Street lamps and neon lights that glow Can't you see it's coming. Coming in the air around? Can't you see it's rising, Rising anger from the

Shadows, desolation and memories of Eld Darkness an' silence an' frost, I can feel in their strength Spells more sure than ever, more potent than all charms Ever drawn down from out fire of down-falling stars Where a palace once stood, now a column f

Scent in the air, stars in the sky Look, it's a real gala night! Demons in red, angels in white Sinners in veils all bedight They seat in a theatre, together to see A new play of old hopes and fears Where there's much of madness and there's more of s

Dried up lands, sandy roads as they wind among the mountains That you walk with your guns made of steel, oohh Hot winds run, heat waves flow, there's no river, there's no fountain Sterile sand everywhere like a sea You march on in the sun, if there o

Look! A shadow of horror is risen, a dark power stands Unknown, unseen, unforgiving, hangs over these lands Pity, compassion, forgiveness, knows not what they mean Rancour and hate, rage and fury it fosters within From the anger storm Something was b