The Woodwoman-Bathory

[00:00.000] 作词 : Quorthon [00:31]Resting by my fire. Looking deep into it＇s flames. [00:38]My mind must have been somewhere else [00:42]Far beyond these plains. [00:46]I am suddenly aware of a pair of eyes staring at me. [00:53]I turn around and behold the most ugly thing I have seen. [01:01]The woman standing in the glade like a shadow in the night [01:09]Points her wretched finger at me with a wretched smile [01:16]And she asks me in a voice that sounds as if it＇s been so long [01:24]since she spoke, if I seek magic then I should come along [01:34]I＇m but a man. Mortal, a man. [01:41]But she leaves no footprints in the snow [01:48]Still I follow on to where she is going [01:56]For she has promised me magic if I follow on. [02:17]She takes me to a part of these woods few have ever seen. [02:24]Where the sun surely won＇t reach [02:27]Still the ground ominously gleams. [02:31]She says she＇s seen me coming and that she knows where I＇ll go. [02:39]But before I leave she says there is this one thing I should know. [02:47]She offers me the ability to take a fatal wound. [02:54]Every cut by sword or spear will be absorbed by her tree-womb. [03:02]The magic will remain until it＇s time for me to part with this mortal world. [03:12]And all she＇ll claim is my young heart. [03:19]I＇m but a man. Mortal, a man. [03:26]And I＇ll need all the help that I can get. [03:34]So I give my heart to the woman of the dark [03:41]With or without it...my life is not over yet. [04:03]Wing of bat and lizard＇s eye. [04:06]Dust of a star fallen from the sky. [04:10]Tears of a virgin, *** of a god. [04:14]Thirteen drops of an infant＇s blood [04:17]A twist of a cat＇s spit and oil of the moon [04:21]Stir for a while and very soon [04:25]A salve to be applied upon the chest [04:29]close to where the heart beats strong. [05:03]No pains will occur when her hand is pushed into my flesh [05:10]She＇ll slowly draw my living heart out of my open chest. [05:18]She＇ll place my heart in the pit of the snake and behold the years go by. [05:25]Hers to keep from the moment when the time has come for me to die. [05:37]By a lake in an open part of the Eternal Woods... [05:39]Noon... [05:42]＂The one eyed old man had told him of a lake. Its bottom uniting with the [05:44]end of the universe, Fall into it and there is no return. To reach its [05:47]bottom will take a thousand generations. When this world was anew, the one [05:49]eyed old man, then a young wanderer, hidden behind a tree, had overheard [05:52]two gods speak as they walked by. All the knowledge of all worlds, old and [05:54]new, was kept safe in a lake in a part of the Eternal Woods. The one eyed [05:56]old man had found the lake after having taken away by a magical blizzard. [05:58]Throwing his left eye into its black water he had gained not only all the [06:00]gathered knowledge of all the worlds. He had also been granted the sight [06:02]into the future. Set to find this lake, the young man mounts his satllion. [06:04]Riding with the speed of the winds high in the sky, he all of a sudden sees [06:06]the sun reflected in a lake. Standing by it, he throws both of his eyes [06:08]into the depths. Now he will not need to stare down the beast on the day of [06:10]The Battle. [06:12]Now he had gained supreme vision offering his eyes to The Lake...＂