Vaunting Veins - Wilderun

Carve the fire into your skin

Stitch the wounds revealing the sin

Waiting in the sky is the wisdom of the ages

Freedom’s ignorant realm

Clear the thoughts addressing your heart

While rage and honor tear your apart

Look beyond the clouds

With your troubles left behind you

I can lead you

Charging, bloody

Crimson red

Hollow, shameful

Leave them dead

Nightfall draws ever near

In the silence all you can hear

Is pride’s heartless whimper

As your purpose falls away

But hold your ground and wait

Shadows creep in forest below

The sun has set, no light left to show

The memory to bridge

This purpose to your home

The cracking glow unknown

At the sound of war, when blood boils to a flame

Does your spirit die?

When the frost of your truth has melted away

Vaunting veins will redden the night

Your ghost charges forth

Vaunting veins will redden the night

Your heart still breathes in the north

You long to see this enemy

As a mirror into your soul

A worthy adversary wearing the badge

Of his strength for all to know

But his heart is buried deep in his eyes

His purpose locked within his mind

You fear the power his clarity can find

Fall to your knees

You bored and reckless man

Why have you taken the lifes of

Those who choose to walk the path of light

Men — But can you tell which is your foe

Blood — It flows in rivers on the ground below

Wind — The wind is howling past your ear

Now — Your final battle drawing near

The despair of the voices from my home

Fills the air

Was love not enough?

Were they not enough?

Screams of sorrow, longing for my land

Sanguine pride flows down my hand

Wounds to guide my way eternally

My fire stains the earth