Prologue - Twilight Of The Gods - Epilogue / Through Blood By Thunder / Blood And Iron Songtext / Lyric

There is a serpent in every Eden

Slick as grease and cold as ice

There is a lie in every meaning

Rest assured to fool you twice



In this age of utter madness

We maintain we are in control

And ending life before deliverance

While countries are both bought and sold



Holy writtings hokus-pokus

Blaze of glory and crucifix

Prepried costly credit salvations

TV-preachers and dirty tricks



Don't trust nobody

It will cost you much too much

Beware of the dagger

It caress you at first touch

O, all small creatures

It is the twilight if the gods






When the foundations to our existence

Begins to crumble one by one

And legislations protects its breakers

And he who was wrong but paid the most won



Even the gods of countless religions

Holds no powers against this tide

Of degeneration because we have now found

That there is no thrones up there in the sky



Run from this fire

It will burn your very soul

Its flames reaching higher

Comed this far there is no hold

O, all small creatures

It is the twilight if the gods



(Twilight of the gods

Twilight of the gods

Twilight of the gods

Twilight of the gods)



For as long as the grass grows

For as long as the stream flows

And the sun shines down unto us

Only they who walks the clouds knows

For how long the wind blows

And the sky is blue above us



O, I am a man and I hold in my hand my fate

Free as the wind as if even

I had wings that carried me

Still in the middle of the night

Even I will need light to guide me

So I turn my face to the sky from

Where he with one eye is watching over me



My fathers' gods - I ride for you

My fathers' gods - I fight for you

My fathers' gods - I die for you

My fathers' gods - I am coming through to you

My fathers' gods - I am yours



Through blood by thunder



Sound of wings in the air and

his ravens fly near to lead me

So I will not fail to ride down the trail

long time destined for me

long before I was born



O, can you not see it is all

carved in the tree of fate

That a son of the north must forfill

his destined course to

follow the bond of blood



(Bond of blood Bond of blood

Bond of blood Bond of blood

Bond of blood Bond of blood

Bond of blood Bond of blood

Bond of blood Bond of blood)



O, so it is written son

When all waters and land you see

All around came to birth

Man and beast was one

And the gods of the sky

Walked the face of the earth



Few free and innocent

Man strolled paths next to those

Of beasts seeing no signs

But stars in the sky

Knowing of day and night

Of rain and winds, hunger and fright

But not of death nor of life



While all was at ease with all

Living creatures and beast and the gods of the sky enjoyed the lavish

riches of this world, giants rose out of their caves and took to the

skies challenging the gods for the power of the universe.

Only when the great halls of Valhalla stood aflame lighting up the

worlds all around did the gods wake up from their drunken sleep, to

speed through the heavens and clash with the giants in the greatest

battle ever seen.

Heads arms and legs of both giant and god fell down upon the earth

and... The weapons... The swords of shining metal... And those who

found them and took these shining blades in hand were only men, now

man was the master of this world.



The story tells of stormy skies Black clouds gathered up high

And of lightning striking from a

Burning bloodred sky



The mountains crumbled to the seas

Earth sthe worlds collide

Ending the age of gods

Giving birth to our time



And man lived and learned

The secret of steel



Ore of earth - fire of sky

Forged is blade of gods



Blood and iron Blood and iron

Blood and iron Blood and iron

Blood and iron Blood and iron

Blood and iron Blood and iron



So the age to learn and to teach

for man begins, the power to know

the blood and iron discipline, and

tell the story of how man was granted

these shining blades of steel



Knowing of the past she will know

of the tomorrow and man shall reign, yes,

even conquer other worlds and she will set

sails on her starships sailing across the

black space and become the new gods of the skies.

(The skies... the skies... the skies... the skies... the skies...

the skies... the skies...)



Blood and iron.