Dark Avenger - Manowar

He broke the laws of the elders

So they plucked out his eyes

Took his land and fortune

Left him to die

Bound on the shoreline

Left for the tide

Sees his lifeblood leaving

Circling lower, the vultures fly

His bones may be broken

But the spirit can’t die

And the Gods see his anguish

And give him a sign

From the floor of the ocean

The ship of the lost souls rise

And they take him

Where no one sleeps while the undead cry

Where no one sleeps while the undead cry

And in the world above

The elders sing

On his land they live

Let death’s bell ring

He was met at the gate of Hades

By the Guardian of the Lost Souls, the Keeper of the Unavenged

And He did say to him

«Let you not pass, abandon

Return to the world from whence you came

And seek payment, not only for thine own anguish

But vindicate the souls of the Unavenged»

And they placed in his hands a sword made for him

Called Vengeance, forged in brimstone

And tempered by the woeful tears of the Unavenged

And to carry him up on his journey back to the upper world

They brought forth their Demon horse called Black Death

A grim steed so fearsome in might and black in colour

That he could stand as one with the darkness

Save for his burning eyes of crimson fire

And on that night they rose up from Hell

The pounding of his hooves did clap like thunder

Burning, death, destruction

Raping the daughters and wives

In blood I take my payment

In full with their lives

No one can escape me

On Black Death I ride

When kissed by the sword of Vengeance

Your head lays there by your side

I take the lives of all that I once knew

The torn flesh of a slow death waits for you

I spare not land or servants

My wake is smoke and flame

I take their wives and daughters

They stand there watching, watching

Hoping to get their lives

But when I’m through they know they must pay

With their lives, with their lives