As time goes on in deceitful peace
As this world grows strong in unbroken calm
(Unbroken calm)
By stealth and craft all
Is transformed, unbeknown
To you there's a tempest brewing
To you there's a tempest brewing
As time goes on in deceitful peace
As this world grows strong in unbroken calm
(As this world grows strong in unbroken calm)
By stealth and craft all (by stealth and craft all)
Is transformed, unbeknown (transformed, unbeknown)
To you there's a tempest brewing
To you there's a tempest brewing
And underground hideous things are breeding
Until they ripen into full-blown craze (full-blown craze)
And war will burst on
This budding scene
Shattering your oblivious
Daze (Daze)
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Troops advancing from west and east
Enemies close in from every side
Join in the apocalyptic ride
Chained chimeras have been released
Who could expect the defilation?
Who would have seen it coming?
What could upturn this earth of ours?
Nothing's like what it was meant to be
Face up to what we have failed to see
Distorted law is the new decree
For a power built on sand
From tall hills, where birches grew
Through grass blades pearling with dew
And up yonder blooming glen
Into heights beyond
Into heights beyond your ken
Who could expect the defilation?
Who would have seen it coming?
What could upturn this earth of ours?
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This earth of ours, translucent sphere of uncoiling life?
By stealth and craft all (by stealth and craft all)
Is transformed, unbeknown (transformed, unbeknown)
To you there's a tempest brewing
To you there's a tempest brewing
(There's a tempest brewing) A voice will rise, expand and fly
The story of centuries gone by
Of something awful and sublime
Remembrance of a distant time (Remembrance of a distant time)
Of glory and troubles, beauty and shame (beauty and shame)
Audacious deeds and bloody blame
And bloody blame
And the elven-songs will tell
Of the highborn kin that fell