Starless Paths

Cruel is the winter's might

Dreadful the howl of wind

Beyond the pathless treks we roam

Where the church bells never toll

The bloodhounds thrash and moan

A raven takes flight and caws

Shadows glance behind every tree

The forest is watching our way

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Through this moonless night

Through these starless paths

We roam

For the hunt has begun

Deeper we march into the unknown

Deeper into the hidden womb of the woods

There is no return

A lonely hut at the edge of a cliff

A lonely hut waits there at the end of the world

A house deserted and cold

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Wind-watcher and healer

A woman of might

Keeper of the secrets

Of worlds above and below

I carry the torch here

I bring forth the flame

I ward off the darkness

Cast the shadows away

Cast the shadows, cast the shadows away

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Hear how the spirits ride across the night sky

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Christ will scour this squalid land

Christ will hunt down the heretics and foes

So they say

Devils lurk among the shadows of the trees

Demons wait outside the fences of Lord's church yard

They wait for our souls

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Through this moonless night

Through these starless paths

We roam

For the hunt will go on

Wind-watcher and healer

A woman of might

Keeper of the secrets

Of worlds above and below

I carry the torch here

I bring forth the flame

I ward off the darkness

Cast the shadows away

Enlightenment prevails

Over surmise and hate

Over pastors and zealots

Over gallows and stocks

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I draw out the lead

I stitch her wound

Outside in the coldness

I'm gasping for air

I carried the torch here

Brought reason and hope

I'm the herald of new dawn

Harbinger of light

But then there's a scream in the night

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And flames they rise

And winds they blow

She's gone

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Into the dark