The Ride - Blood Axis

When doors lie open at halloween

On glimmering hills and lands unseen

The oldest of all that the world gave birth

Ride again through the hills of earth

Chorus:

Out of the darkness

On the road where the dead years run

Cold as moonlight

Terrible as the sun

Long before the word was spoken

Moon scarred or promise broken

From dust before the first day’s sun

The children of the twilight come

(Chorus)

When the great stones rose on the windy plain

And the corn-mother sang for the springing grain

They (??) on the hill

The grey host rode and it’s riding still

(Chorus)

When the eagles came with their wings outspread

And the hard roads rang to the legion’s tread

The war ran straight from coast to coast

Under the starlights rode the host

(Chorus)

When they came from the north with their axe and plow

And the one-eyed god hung from the bough

Nine knights between the earth and sky

He saw the host come riding by

(Chorus)

When clamoring bells and chanting priests

Proclaimed the dead god from the east

And churches rose on every hand

Still the grey host rode the land

(Chorus)

When gold was gone and labor cheap

And they herded men like dogs herd sheep

Through furnace, glair and smokey mill

The grey host rode and it’s riding still

(Chorus)

Through towered blocks and littered streets

Where sirens wail and buses sleep

Where hope lives god only knows

For the gods died long ago

Still the grey host rides through the dead of night

And the cities are shadow to their sight

For beyond the mist of centuries

Still shine the stars and the ancient trees

Out of the darkness