Ruins of Yore Lyrics


Crumbling down the stone

Can you see it

The city beneath is there

Can you read it

The writings of the old

I’m not going away

The spirits do not share

You must listen to what we say

Remember me

Buried away beneath the black ruin of yore

Is the dark rune of persecution

Nothing to say but the dark words of the master’s tongue

Telling you work, slave, under my gun

From the old world to the new

Shipwrecks killed all but the chosen few

Dying in vain

When this body gives all it’s got

My life will be just an after-thought

Crumbling down the stone

Can you see it

The city beneath is there

Can you read it

The writings of the old

I’m not going away

The spirits do not share

You must listen to what we say

Remember me

Remember this soul

No matter what’s told

Beneath the black ruin of yore

Is the dark rune of persecution

Nothing to say

But the words of the masters tongue

From the old world to the new

Shipwrecks killed all but the chosen few

Dying in vain

this body gives all until it rots