We 're gathered here about the old
Stone hearth of fire
The flame burns cold
And around the voices raise in shout
For wood to burn and heat rise out
A cask of ale and an open drum
Will keep me dancing all night long
A dash of brandy here and there
The cooks out cold so he don't even care... So Go!
The air around you turns a smoky hue
The smell of beer, death and mould
I'ts a part of you
We've spent a fortnight from the town
And now the open cask it leaks we have to
Drink it down
And all through the night
I believe in dreams
Of the suffering I've caused
I will not be redeemed
There's one place I'll go
That's down to the deep, into the keep
Into the realm of demons far below
The stormy seas of madness takes a hold of me
I feel it clenching tight onto my sanity
I want it all, so far I've been denied
I can feel it getting closer
The edge to which, I'm slowly gonna fall
Hail to the gods of the world
And we will live forever
A serpent rises to only fall
Back down to Earth
Into his wicked ways
And did I repent from my sins?
Did I hell!
A man cannot have a moral conscience
And expect to do the things that I do
And as for the dreams? Ha!
A mere recession from my early days
The days when I might have felt pity!
