Goblin Hovel

There is no need For summer's heat To rise Nothing killed In this world Truly dies They are the water That feeds the roots Of new creations, Life from barren snow So ends one journey Through burning December Is this the end of all trials Or will more be los...

nokt steg ym brassgaalt trangf mun ochnd mon forslyf ys un kragmalld spolmun vekket gal aeghyte rapf muth kryft sengyr saede uv mochken uvyr al ym fjarg ochnd folt rois hinsk hedt tol hemmle vekt dy grunsig mon stun ochnd wottr buq tol dur...

Ongen, Gaalten, al Munneskapasten! Kamoin, Kamoin! Tol brasseEstefasten! Rois dur ol, rois der screk ochnd sloquen yv en saed Far dit tahre hed komt far in rostefest! Et gaaltegobschk ul Baalkryth vur sjutten yv in stun Far lunghte tahre tonker ym et ros...

From the bones of my abode I watched you fade like mist A trace of eerie ribboned light I wonder if the same happens to me? I am captive in autumnal chains Til the haunting starts again Knowing not what would become of you Obscured but never abse...

I defend the soil, the promise that I made When all was as it was before When ground would bare its teeth as if to claim the prize I force myself to look away. the wheel has turned, and still shall turn again The predator will take the prey To us wit...

Jich kenne trangfylk borokol ve snydde yv din skald vor schrakiscke fur din borokol vor lungte tahre gaalt. din borokol hudt knugfe zog/ hinsk broek vor sloqt tol vendural. Yekka, yekka, schrakischke sagt, din brasse gaalte borokol! Ho ho ho gurlykr m...

Mirror, Mirror, Under the ground Show me where my soul is bound light and fire, circling the void’s maw falling deeper beneath the ground headlong into future unknown born and dying without end in sight the wheel turns, the orbit of immortals...

Warm was the light in your eyes when we met Now cold is the night I will never forget This hut has gone silent since that autumn day I left my belief and I threw you away In this heart an emptiness grows Can faith get us through this? We may never know...

Flicker out of sight The pictures all wear her face She won’t lift her hands I mourn her more than fear her. The hurt and senseless slaughter Her blood among the leaves and water Painted in her mourning dress In the colored earth that covers her...

Every man fears this place Because of us My kinsmen and I Defending the old world Slighted by the red-bloods This forest shall have its revenge They shall hear drums From the roots of the world As we rush like a river of blood Spilled by ou...

Once you shone like the meridian sun Golden, Bleeding now it sets over what time has done Vultures Feeding A faded voice from the red land howls its pain as the work of nature removes its stain There is one of you that yet survives in the Chaos...

Little tavern in the deepest woods Perfect place for the wandering man On its sign stands the fire wyrm Drink that scorches like a firebrand Courage in this flagon will set your soul aflame Raise a pint and raise a shout the firebreathers sing this song...

Far lungte tahre in verbradst vor gifadt Ym brass blo hemmle der dukkuh vor hirt Fat sem bylske starr sem stun Nur vor ym altihre kurrar un! Vrukt din makina nya ro gaalt Vae koll nemme dur, Gremalschk! *res dur ol ochnd sloquen ym in nya ursurgk...

Five trolls wandering through the wooded land Walking staves clutched in their taloned hands Path leading to a cave in the rock Here they repose, a fire they start In the cave their eyes behold Mountains of silver, bronze, and gold Hunting weapons adorn...

Lost in the marshes Daylight fades and dies Consumed in darkness Every shadow seems alive Do you take this path alone? Does the moonlight see you quake? The water seeps into your skin Every shadow seems alive Carrion bird calls from the trees...

I tasted iron on my tongue before the leaves turned red I have seen the embers fail in the wake of harvest pyres and the coldest season is yet to come I can feel it in my bones won't you leave a flower for me as a token of what we've done? I...

Do the people know Where all their prayers go? In their being satisfied Bodies blackened, shrunken, dry. The trees are heavy With fruit that was born to rot. The bands that reach to grasp the boughs Find themselves starved of souls. They are the wate...

Forgotten gaze of life From the fountain's pool It was I, peering from The water, still and cool, Fueling life anew In cold October air Reflections in the mist I see you still wandering there When we used to walk Through the orchards hand in hand I'd swear I...

You called me to you, but not by name You snuffed the last advisor out of shame And I’ve got some words For you brother, if you choose to hear And when you need a weapon Those words will be your spear Searching for answers in nature’s glass Strive for...

Rostkapt Gobschke sahen Rosthirn Ilv veschin slektr ev broekte slekt yn an. Ym brassgaalt skalde Muth yr urtraume Jich ryfev dur vengen Vae surcht skalden schrack! Gres beyr, vande haol Traumkyd steg vun vae spall Traumr kammot vrotfylt B...

That winter’s day I heard the song When the nightingale cried It killed our world, and in an instant Glass sparrows fell from the sky The hero and the serpent Engaged and became one A moment lost in nihil Then the deed was past and done So man...

Drift beyond the conscious sphere Through the trees by moonlit paths Leave the dying fire to burn Fading as you tread the ground I am running on the paths (Have I given into panic?) Winding through the forest (Or fallen for illusions?) There is mist u...

Dig, dig, dig for something Nothing in this soil worth keeping Nothing in this ground worth finding No one buried worth remembering When it comes apart from me Rotted roots, a fallen tree, I’ve forgotten how to be The god the people want to see....

I Was Always here Under the stairs just Waiting for your footsteps Hush Now Can’t you hear? Fears and failures Are upon your doorstep You Won’t Know my face Until too late Look at your reflection Strike The Match and wait Th...

The sun escaped the night woods And crept up to the sky Surprised my eyes With light amid this graveyard Hollow, hurt and haunted By stories long kept down The buried souls fade like morning mist And leave no trace The tombs have all gone sil...

When the harvest ended the citadels burned down and in the dust I painted the sickle in red clay drumbeat echoes across the skyline traced in the starlight the diamond in green clay Others give their wealth as if you hadn't more Others giv...

I have not raised a sword against foes How it feels to kill I shall never know And I shall not die in a glorious fight So to sing of such honors is not in my right. These rusted words hang Like a blade on my wall Spoken and dreamt of But ne’er u...

Falling or sinking in total emptiness Leviathan shadows swim through the abyss I stand unbreathing in islands of wealth Atop the corpseless shells of those who came before Eye, Devourer, Unfathomable depth That dwarfs the flames that consume and ins...

Muses guide my tongue to sing An ode to the amphora-keepers A song for the maenad’s groves Of the spirit strangers dwelling there Souvenirs from bacchus journeys Living essence of the soil Colored red with ritual wine And blood of wilderness . ....

In the sunlight we bend our backs For there's much work to be done We stopped only for wine and for rest at night In the shade beneath the trees In the starlight we share our tales As we sit beside our fire Of the heroes of old and of sagas they told And the c...

Hunched upon a wooden throne, In the caverns cold and dim Dancing shadows cloak his form. Mankind fears to gaze on him Casting mischief with a smirk on his face from his hovel under the roots Singing songs of trouble to come. Soon chaos shall be afoot. Gob...

Mochk bloskynne luyse tol fuljh Fur dur vor vendre, jich gyf yn gjyfr Yn prauye yv trangfvulkes kryft Din Merkuirt undyst kam teum furkholdt ys hamunschke Lonckt din drygma tol glyz “hjur vor undrehg ess otvo hjur” “jich skal vigr dur Andre f...

Intention lost at sea in tides of Obligation sails cannot hold the breeze, you know the implication and if you find yourself adrift, will you know who takes the blame? If you should feed the waters you'll find they were not yours to claim What I feel...

This was a test to weigh my options you make it so easy it can't be true I rip the page off line for line (word for word) cut and stitch to make it fit to you. do you think you're something else besides a character I've read about a thousand times?...

Eyes watching from above wings stretched across the wall here I will never watch in vain I born of harsher fires I bathed in colder rains no harm will come to us this day form I am forced to take honor I will receive though I desire no great pr...

I had to speak my father’s words I had to cry my mother’s tears I had to walk my teacher’s path Because I forgot my own Pulse and pace forge ahead and I forget Do I walk or fly? In my memory pictures I recall In my passing sigh Is this a mirro...

Serpents and spiders, your darkest desires deviously weaving the web of events seraphs are silenced for devout defiance desperately trying to mount a defense ghosts guide your hands and conspire in your soul with true intention the action is whole...

I left my home and I left my job Went and joined the army If I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have been so barmy. Poor old soldier, poor old soldier If I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have been so barmy. Gave me a gun and a big red c...

Iolite waters and breathing trees I beseech you awaken to my song Magic once buried in root-caged hills Now by a river’s course set free this place where stars like silver light the paths When daylight falls The royal blue of night chases the sun...

I see the blaze in your eyes You are worthy to take the staff To recognize the truth of what you are And in spirit, be its agent of finality. We stand upon the ancestral bridge And I promise you it will not be lost There is one of us who cannot fail An...

(translated from the original Gobbish) Skraptif was a goblin man Never in all times were there greater ones Green was he and old as hell With fire and sword he conquered the world! Hey! Hey! Come on and join in with your drums! Where beasts wander wild...

Everyone in this forest is going to the festival We are joyous jesters, We are folk of silent groves! I’ll take you where the bloodred lights hang Like foul lanterns from the boughs Eager to become your greatest fears! Aren’t you afraid of the blackness?...

I carry a coin on my lips I see through a filter of grey The leaking craft carries me To a world of flameless smoke Under the cosmic roots In the vaults of asphodel My hope is their memory of me Here is a poison without root Here is a cry without soun...

Sound of the strings can awaken the storm Strains of the flute calm the venomous wyrm Voice on the wind and the kantele's cry Brought fruit to the woods and the sun to the sky Oh summer why hast thou gone? Winter frost has caked my aging bones I have wai...

“Mei lehes Téniap’d Nemehs. Mei lehes Nat Dokkaebi. Ic liú siewle albe lehes Téniap’d Nemehs” Blurred and buried Have they all forgotten I was here? I walked the paths to disappear, an exile through the mist Hollow and weary Is this cursed strea...

Silence, never sing again! I know your voice will resound cacophonous against this beauty even the dovesong falters as ravens croaking laughter my song is rootless for her Powerless and vain There are no words There is no sound I lie awake...

Crows calling Circling above Wind blowing through the fallow field. Still standing Man of straw Beaks tearing Sackcloth skin Ravaged by the elements, A silent sentinel, thankless one I stand here in an empty field The stones of broken wal...

It’s been a wolf’s age Since you stopped to see the shadows Tracing the contours, and spiraling into the realms I had begun to think You were not ever coming back Were you too proud to seize the pike and claim your place? I speak to you through the glas...

You kept your heart inside a glass A vessel meant to break in time I saw too late the opus failed And in a way the fault was mine I watched in the greatest dismay As the colors fade to grey But your core is sapphire blue Is that not beauty in itself?...

rut-a, rut-s anx-a, anx-s un re-a, petra-a em maa -a! (I grow, it groweth I live and it liveth I open my mouth, I see with my eyes!) 

Underfoot and split wide screaming with a geyser of old blood Every dying prayer coughed to the sky All the sacrifices are rejected by the gods at last For a cause I never wanted to succeed My bones were shaped to blades My skin was tarred and armor...

I see a light through the grey when you speak to me though to others you appear the fool singing to an empty room. I try, vainly to comfort you A wind through the curtains from the other side. And though I was never truly there You see me for who I am. Would...

From earth they rose in wretched pain To leave the hillside bare They have caught the wicked stench Of woodsmoke in the air The fury of the timber shakes the earth And roots unyielding and gnarled March against the towns of man To reclaim their world A...

Sound ye the horns of war Stand and defend your selves For all is here and now Trapped in a living cell I never knew what lay behind the mask I never saw the treasure I had sworn to keep Chained to this beaten corpse, my prized identity Obsessed...

The sun has yet to rise, smothered by these cloudy hands This essence is unknown, the stranger in a mundane land It flickers as the candles in my darkened cell. It howls as the desert wind that sweeps my tower walls It gnaws as pangs of hunger in clois...

Welcome to the bitter fantasy if misery loves company then be my guest. All around, victims of beauty a tomb embellished to impress she will hold the torch unto you to shine a light on what you keep like a moth unto the candle drawn slavishly aw...

Carved upon the crystal halls On the arcane temple walls The legacy of she with shining eyes Mentioned once in passing Reflections cleansed my inner sight From illusions of the night Now sentenced to life in obscurity Through the crystal let me...

The revenant irreverent bathing in bloodshed the sylvan entities bleed chlorophyll from green to red you were doomed for every second you're awaiting in the woodlands the cold caress of carbon claws clutched in their green hands here's your tomb e...

The hands of a child reach out and touch the barrier between the times A simple act before crossing sempiternal lines waiting here inside . . . Here in this place among the artefacts the lessons are alive the essence has survived in those who step in...

The cloisters of my sanctum Will no longer be Empty when my imagination Catches up with me My mind, my monastery Turned upon itself And all that was once holy Has become my hell. Light plays from wavering lamps Across the face of haggard glo...

I spent my days in search of former times I looked in front of me only when I had to The walls came up to meet my blinded eyes But the halls we walked ten years ago Are the same today and so You, disc that burns up in the sky gaze down at us as w...

Old blood Old woods So often the two are bound together Cold Stone Cold bones Under one is buried the other Oaths made Truth fades So often lives go unremembered Old grove Below The soil of which is buried a story For many years this place has stood Forgotten...

Staring eyes in the windowpanes Flinging reason to winds of sorrow Speaking in verse to withering gardens Singing false spells to the cornerstones. Chanting the names of demon heroes They spin in circles round the pyre Praising the smoke of departure In...

Kam randt din fuheld ol Hjer stammere myn Av trangfylk ymtae skald Elskre alcohol und seng! Ne ynsenim kyld nock Gobischke trangfylk futsjolt Ymtae din brasurtraume Nek lys fur din folt *trangfylke trekt din hjyl lysmak Fur din alcohol hins...

Even though your eyes are open it is impossible to see the magic boils around this place the skin crawls from its cold caress Fire! Fire! Bring the torches Moonlight red from celestial cloud Blaze above this strange concoction. Spiritual pyre burns r...

This day is not what it was promised to be I cradled your broken body and washed thee And still I question how could man be this cruel? Yet he who thinks war comes bloodless is a fool The battle flags are tattered, on windless fields We begged and p...

I sense your life is slowly fading I hold you in my many arms Could I see a face through the mask of flesh A spirit that is worthy of my name? In the future come what may If the mist will ever leave Cover soil infertile, overgrown The name is all you h...

Aidas, Orcus Agesailos You who know all Giver of wealth Polydegmon Eubuleus All who take Return to you Stygius, Lethe Cocytus, Phlegethon Lead the way And I will follow Agesander Ploutodotes This is wealth I kill to have Eidinai Aidoneus Awi...