Hawkwind : The Chronicle of the Black Sword

Heavy Rock / Royaume-Uni
(1985 - Griffin Music (USA) / Gopaco / Flicknife Records)
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1. SONG OF THE SWORDS

A clash of steel, a blinding light
Is this the start of Chaos' fight?
We were born to be free
Not live in terror, under tyranny

"Take up the sword and take up me,"
the Chaos Lord's answer is to be,
"Your path is chosen, you have no choice,
Come join us now!" thus spake the voice.

It's paradise,
Is this my paradise?
(repeat)

The cool brain tortured by neurotic fears
The man of ice melts in shameless tears
The journey onward, it never ends
When you're alone, with so few friends


2. SHADE GATE

(Instrumental)


3. SEA KING

Sinking deeper beneath the waves
Mind now resigned, accepts his fate
Ancient alliance creeps into his thoughts
Unbid to him comes a rune once taught

Sea King has come to him
Sea King to save him

Unsure whether he's dreaming or dead
Seeing the face that his youth has bred
Slowly realising that to him has come
His ancestors' ally, friend only to some

Sea King has come to him
Sea King to save him

He sees that his life is safe
His foe Yrkoon has failed
The deed that was to finish him
Has come to no avail

Sea King has come to him
Sea King to save him

To his kingdom he is now bound
The sea around him is his shroud
Age old wisdom has set him free
So to realise his destiny

Sea King has come to him
Sea King to save him


4. PULSING CAVERN

(Instrumental)


5. ELRIC THE ENCHANTER

The song he sang was surfaces
Nothing deeper than a child knows
He could sing sand into pearls
So the saying goes

Some said he was a sorcerer
Or a warrior chief
But he was the stealer of souls
The lord of Chaos reaps

And he's frozen in a time trap
Slowly losing power
And he's frightened if he makes a move
The dream will soon turn sour

Sprawling in a Ruby Throne
His head cupped in his hands
The Lord of Dragons, Elric's thoughts
Were of quests to far-off lands

The Black Sword was at his side
Murmuring in its scabbard cold
Waiting for the moment to arrive
To drink the very essence of souls

And he's frozen in a time trap
Slowly losing power
And he's frightened if he makes a move
The dream will soon turn sour

[guitar solo]

[Bridge:]
He did not know that the sword he'd hold
Would turn his priceless empire into fool's gold
The truth, the shadow of the sword will hide
'Til it's too late, a traitor at his side

And as he gazes from his ruby throne
He's growing restless of the life he's sown
To get away, embark on a quest
To put his powers of sorcery to the test

The drugs he takes to keep himself awake
Lose their effect, he can no longer wait
To find the sword and gain more power
And make his move before the dream turns sour


6. NEEDLE GUN

So you're alive, I thought you was done ...

So you're alive, I thought you was done
I'm gonna bring you down with my needle gun
Feel my pin-prick tattoo your spine
Give it a minute, your life's entwined with mine

It's gonna make you run
Needle needle, needle needle gun
It's gonna make you run
Needle needle, needle needle gun

Hear my laughter in your head
It's a pity, it's a shame nothing's been said
It's a vaccination joy with the ultimate death toy
It's gonna make you run, needle gun! needle gun!

It's gonna make you run
Needle needle, needle needle gun
It's gonna make you run
Needle needle, needle needle gun

It's gonna make you run
Needle needle, needle needle gun
It's gonna make you run
Evil needle, needle needle gun!

(Needle gun!)


7. ZAROZINIA

Fire of destiny
Fire of reality
Zarozinia
The burning of flesh
Flames loving caress
Zarozinia
Water from a thousand tears
Feeling of a thousand years
Flows over me
But the dream it is too real
Cold reality of steel
Zarozinia
Hurt and wounded you return
But deep down feel the anger burn
Zarozinia


8. DEMISE

Arioch I summon thee
Lord of the Seven Darks
Arioch I summon thee
Put fire in my heart
Arioch I summon thee
Can you hear my plea
Arioch I summon thee
In my hour of need


9. SLEEP OF A THOUSAND YEARS

With your white arms wrapped around me
And locked in embrace so cold
We slept a thousand years or more
To awake in a land of gold
Where, the king of the world was a creature
Both man and woman and beast
Under landscape boiled with a million strange flowers

And the sun set in the east
And we were heroes you and I
By virtue of age and skill
And we rode to the land at the edge of the skies
To an emerald tower on a hill


10. CHAOS ARMY

(Instrumental)


11. HORN OF DESTINY

Yet year on year the greedy tide
Swelled from the west unsatisfied
And ever with impatient fret
Gnawed at the human banquet
And many with madness in their eyes
Stared gibbering at the white hot skies
Where foul birds circled overhead
Shadowing the living and the dead
Southward to where the blood red sun
Sickens at noon in vapours dun
He stumbles with the fear-tamed herds
Of savage beasts
While homeless birds fly overhead


12. ARIOCH

(Instrumental)


13. WAR I SURVIVED

Death comes like a ???? in the midst of all wars
Reason and logic, the generals cry "more"
Bodies in gullies, contortionate poses
Caught by the same time, as the guns and roses

Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five
Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five

Nice business guns, bombs to the haloed Moon
Trust this landscape to the barren gloom
A bulletproof Bible can protect your heart
It'll cover your eyes when you're falling apart

Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five
Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five

???? rise higher for the martyrs ?????
???????? freedom for unprovoked attack
Get in there and use them, the shatter????? bomb
Armies create circles, sparks for the dawn

Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five
Take me back to the war I survived
I can't live no more, this is slaughterhouse five

There's only bombs, nobody's left alive
Take me back to the war I survived
These were people like you and I
Take me back to the war I survived


14. VOICE INSIDE MY HEAD

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