The Gathering - Citizen Cain

As I watched from the towers

A valley opened up with a scream

On the threshold below came an army

Counselled in all the ways of war

We are here before you

We are here as men

To take hold of possessions and praise the severed head

Show heed to your wives and your children

And open up for all will soon be dead

Oh God of war and of fear don’t leave me

Please help me through this troubled time

Just give me power and give me strength

Walk before me

And give me honour in the fighting line

The sheep have all been slaughtered

Prophets signalling this side

It has begun

All at once there was shouting

To my left I saw a friend of mine

We are here before them, we are here as men

So fight and crush the enemy

And claim the bastard’s head

I raise my shield to stop their arrows

But a spear enters flesh above my thigh

Oh God of war and of fear don’t leave me