The Revenant King

Out across the foothills they rode

Banners as black as their souls

As a winter sky loomed above

Pale as the wind-driven snow

I have seen this day in my dreams

The hour of my doom drawing nigh

Black blades of treachery draw forth my aging blood

And I fall, dying on the cold stones of my throne

Retake the usurper's throne

The blades of our fallen burst forth with the revenant's breath

Destined to fight, even in death

These are the bones that they thought they had shattered

But we'll never rest

Immortal blood courses through my veins

I won't be denied; your battle's lost in vain

I have returned to reclaim my rightful throne

From realms beyond the waking world

We'll rend your flesh from bone

There the young man sits on my throne

Surrounded by ill-gotten gains

Ebon hair and eyes black like coal

Murder and thievery his way

I see the horror gripping his mind

As we descend on his ranks

A thousand men they thought they had killed ride out from the woods

And our steel thirsts for betrayers' flesh and blood

Retake the usurper's throne

The blades of our fallen burst forth with the revenant's breath

Destined to fight, even in death

These are the bones that they thought they had shattered

But we'll never rest

Immortal blood courses through my veins

I won't be denied; your battle's lost in vain

I have returned to reclaim my rightful throne

From realms beyond the waking world

We'll rend your flesh from bone

We traveled realms beyond the crystal moon

And shadowed keeps

Where mighty serpents stalked ensorcelled seas

And ice-crowned peaks

So here we are to bring your end my friend

And none shall week

Betrayal's debt paid in your foul blood

The price is steep

We are revenant

We have returned

So bow your heads

We are your doom

The hoarfrost breaks as steel-shod hooves

Make known their presence to the night

And fires rise against the starwheel, casting smoke into the sky

My bloodline was and always will be rightful heirs to this old throne

Your blood will slake the soil's thirst for sacrifice and blooded stone

Immortal blood courses through my veins

I won't be denied; your battle's lost in vain

I have returned to reclaim my rightful throne

From realms beyond the waking world

We'll rend your flesh from bone