Stone face dog, swirling fog, gates open on the dark, dark night   Standing stone, skull and bone, dead witness to an unseen fight   Beat the drum, beat the drum, beat forever on the endless march   Stricken dumb, cut and run, somebody's screaming and the sky is dark      Sword and shield, bone and steel, rictus grin   Deaf forever to the battles din   Deaf forever to the battles din      March or croak, flame and smoke, burn forever in eternal pain   Charge and fall, bugle call, bone splinter in the driving rain   Horses scream, Viking dream, drowned heroes in a lake of blood   Armored fist, severed wrist, broken spears in a sea of mud      Sword and shield, bone and steel, rictus grin   Deaf forever to the battles din   Deaf forever to the battles din      Deaf forever   Stone deaf forever      Mother earth, mother earth, enfold you in her cold embrace   Sinking down, killing ground, worm crawling on your cold white face   Win or lose, naught to choose, all men are equal when their memory fades   No one knows, friends or foes, if Valhalla lies beyond the grave      Sword and shield, bone and steel, rictus grin   Deaf forever to the battles din   Deaf forever to the battles din   Deaf forever to the battles din   Deaf forever to the battles din, hey