Ages

FROM UNKNOWN AGES HE CAME
ON SEARCH OF ONE TO BLAME
A MAN LIKE THOUSAND FEARS
WITH EYES OF THOUSAND SPEARS

A MIGHTY STORM WAS IN HIS BACK
WITH GOLDEN CHAINS AROUND HIS NECK
AND FIERY HORSES SETTLE DOWN
WEARS ON HIS HEAD A SILVER CROWN

HIS VOICE WAS FULL AND LOUD
AS HE'D SPOKEN TO THE CROWD
THE BIRDS FLED FAST AWAY
HE'S RUSHING ON WITH NO DELAY

HE CAME FROM UNKNOWN AGES
WHILE HIS FORGOTTEN WAGES
THE BARDS ARE SINGING 'BOUT THE PAST
BUT NOONE KNEW THIS MAN AT LAST

THE SKY WAS THREATENING DARK
AND SUDDEN IT WAS LIT BY SPARK
BRIGHT FLASHES BEAT THE GROUND
NO LIFE ON STREET THEY FOUND

AND ALL WAS COVERED NOW BY SNOW
THERE WAS A SILENCE DEEP BELOW
THE FROZEN STONES DON'T SPEAK NO MORE
'COS NOONE SAW THIS MAN BEFORE

AND AS HE SLOWLY RAISED HIS HAND
THERE WAS A SILENCE IN THE LAND
AND HE WAS SATISFIED
THE STARS WERE SHINING BRIGHT

HIS HAIR WAS LIKE A THOUSAND CLOUDS
HIS VOICE WAS LIKE A THOUSAND SHOUTS
AND ALL MEN THERE JUST BOWED THEIR HEAD
BELIEVING EVERY WORD HE'D SAID

DEEP THUNDER CRAWLS ACROSS THE HILL
THE VILLAGE IS A SIGN OF THRILL
ALL FOUNTAINS ALL AROUND ARE SOILED
ALL FISHES IN THE SEAS ARE BOILED

AND HE ONLY LAUGHS UNTIL
ALL HAD HAPPENED TO HIS WILL
THOUSAND AGES PASSING BY
BEFORE THE PEASANTS START TO CRIE

AND THIS MAN JUST TRAVELS ON
NOT RETURNING TO HE'D COMING FROM
FOLLOWED BY A THOUSAND PAINS
WHICH WERE TIED TO HIM WITH CHAINS

FROM UNKNOWN AGES HE HAD COME
LISTEN TO THE BARDENS SONG
YOU'LL DISCOVER EMPTY SPACE
BY THE LOOK INTO HIS FACE

SCARY PEOPLE HAD HE LEFT
ALL THEIR HOPES HE HAD THEFT
A MIGHTY MAN ON UNKNOWN WAGES
JOURNEYD THROUGH FROM LOSTEN AGES.