A Land in Darkness Lyrics


Once more into the fray

Marching under the cross this cursed day

Guided by the maiden dressed in white

Lead us from the dark into the light

Coward, where is your faith?

Traitor, kneel to your false god and pray

You have lost the right to wield the sword drawn from the lake

Your choice alone, your promises to break

Sound now the horn

Our final war

Darkness, this is your fate

Victory, but what a price we had to pay

You have left behind the vows you swore

Deceived and cowed by a pious, jealous lord

Bleeding, this is your fate

Fighting, but now your wounds are just too great

Forgotten are the sacrifices made to make you king

Your treachery, the lowest of all sins

(Solo: Farmer)

Their solemn hymns will mark this turning of an age

Baptised in sickness and in deceit

The truth is cast astray and a foreign god now praised

They shun our "primitive" beliefs

A land in darkness, we await the end of the days

Victim of the priests!

(Solo: McNeill)

Sound now the horn

Our final war

Sound now the horn

Into the mists our fallen king

Back to the isle where peace still reigns

Our final war

The magic of Avalon will fade

Now only the Church and cross remain