The Golden Bough Lyrics

An altar, a city, a people

Engulfed in the flames

No Gods dare snuff the ire of these sons of war and rage

A beating heart syncs rhythm to blood

Swelling a symphony of gold and soul

Hammering down

Shaking the ground

This land is theirs to take

This is where Aeneas began

Brought the Golden Bough to Charon

And I crossed the river Lethe

To embrace my kin to come again

Again and again, we all rise again

Again and again and again

Rain to a flame

The smoke rose and claimed

The unshackled traitors of all that is green

The deafening cries of the faithless fell

Before their accursed tribe was bound to hell

Corrosion in flesh

Lifeless in thrums

The iron chants

The soul reforms

Intoxicated by the fruits of valor

For beauty rests by sword and shield

There subsists within the blight, a shimmering mantra for the chosen

And it is heard by all those who yet possess the soul gifted to them by flesh now lost

The spell sounds out from all safe havens left in this perilous realm

And its words are as such

"We who conquer death ne'er die

Our mother earth and father sky

Though iron wanes, and brothers will fall

It's the eternal us

Against them all"

This is where Aeneas began

Brought the Golden Bough to Charon

And I crossed the river Lethe

To embrace my kin to come again

Again and again, we all rise again

Again and again and again

The rites of the slain

Were chanted through pain

As the living were felled in the mud and the rain

The brooding heart of noble ire

The thunderous thrum of noble sons

To die with steel while bathed in mud

This is the creed of noble blood

This is where Aeneas began

Brought the Golden Bough to Charon

And I crossed the river Lethe

To embrace my kin to come again

Ascend higher and higher

So that in your fall you may burn brighter

Brighter than any who came before

Lighter,

So that in your dream's wake

You will be reborn again