Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk   Mountains echo, curfews bell, signal ending tasks   They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight   The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as Grendel stalks the night      Earth rim walker seeks his meals   Prepare the funeral pyres   The shapers songs no longer heal the fear   Within their eyes, their eyes   [Incomprehensible]      Wooden figures, pagan gods, stare blindly cross the sea   Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviors born of dreams   They know their lives are forfeit now, priestly heads they bow in shame   They cannot face the trembling crowd that flinch in Grendel's name      Earth rim walker seeks his meals   Prepare the funeral pyres   The shapers songs no longer heal the fear   Within their eyes, their eyes   Their eyes, their eyes, their eyes      As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere   Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear   He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify   His claws will drip with mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky      As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere   Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear   He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify   His claws will drip with mortal blood, as moonbeams haunt the sky      Earth rim walker seeks his meals   Prepare the funeral pyres   The shapers songs no longer heal the fear   Within their hearts, within their hearts   Within their hearts, within their eyes      Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew   Denizens of twilight lands humbly beg him through   Mother nature's bastard child, shunned by leaf and stream   An alien in an alien land, seeks solace within dreams      The shapers lies his poisoned tongue malign with mocking harp   Beguiling queen, her innocence offends his icy heart      Hounds freeze in silence bewitched by the reptile spell   Sulfurous essence pervades 'round the grassy dell   Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butcher's knife   Stellular heavens ignore even children's cries      Screams are his music, lightning his guide   Raping the darkness, death by his side      Chants rise in terror, free round the oaken beams   Flickering firelight portraying the grisly scene   Warriors advance, prepare for the nightmare foe   Futile their sacrifice as even their hearts must know      Heroes delusions with feet in the grave   Lurker at the threshold   He cares not for the brave   He cares not for the brave      So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out   You should have known better after all this time   You're gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander   With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes      Why should I feel pity when you kill your own and feel no shame?   God's on my side, sure as hell, I'm gonna take no blame   I'm gonna take no blame, I'm goin' to take no blame      So you say you believe in all of mother nature's laws   You lust for gold with your sharpened knives   Ooh, when your hoards are gathered and your enemies left to rot   You pray with your bloodstained hands at the feet of your pagan gods      Then you try to place the killers blade in my hand   You call for justice and distort the truth   Well, I've had enough of all your pretty, pretty speeches   Receive your punishment, expose your throats to my righteous claws   And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, and let the blood flow   And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow      Let the blood flow, let the blood flow   Let the blood flow, let the blood flow, let the blood flow, flow, flow   Let the blood flow, let the blood flow   Let the blood flow, let the blood flow, flow, flow      Let the blood, let the blood, let the blood   Let the blood, let the blood, let the blood   Let the blood, let the blood, let the blood   Flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow