The Woodwoman - Bathory

[00:00.0] 作词 : Quorthon
[00:31.0]Resting by my fire. Looking deep into it＇s flames.
[00:38.0]My mind must have been somewhere else
[00:42.0]Far beyond these plains.
[00:46.0]I am suddenly aware of a pair of eyes staring at me.
[00:53.0]I turn around and behold the most ugly thing I have seen.
[01:01.0]The woman standing in the glade like a shadow in the night
[01:09.0]Points her wretched finger at me with a wretched smile
[01:16.0]And she asks me in a voice that sounds as if it＇s been so long
[01:24.0]since she spoke, if I seek magic then I should come along
[01:34.0]I＇m but a man. Mortal, a man.
[01:41.0]But she leaves no footprints in the snow
[01:48.0]Still I follow on to where she is going
[01:56.0]For she has promised me magic if I follow on.
[02:17.0]She takes me to a part of these woods few have ever seen.
[02:24.0]Where the sun surely won＇t reach
[02:27.0]Still the ground ominously gleams.
[02:31.0]She says she＇s seen me coming and that she knows where I＇ll go.
[02:39.0]But before I leave she says there is this one thing I should know.
[02:47.0]She offers me the ability to take a fatal wound.
[02:54.0]Every cut by sword or spear will be absorbed by her tree-womb.
[03:02.0]The magic will remain until it＇s time for me to part with this mortal world.
[03:12.0]And all she＇ll claim is my young heart.
[03:19.0]I＇m but a man. Mortal, a man.
[03:26.0]And I＇ll need all the help that I can get.
[03:34.0]So I give my heart to the woman of the dark
[03:41.0]With or without it...my life is not over yet.
[04:03.0]Wing of bat and lizard＇s eye.
[04:06.0]Dust of a star fallen from the sky.
[04:10.0]Tears of a virgin, *** of a god.
[04:14.0]Thirteen drops of an infant＇s blood
[04:17.0]A twist of a cat＇s spit and oil of the moon
[04:21.0]Stir for a while and very soon
[04:25.0]A salve to be applied upon the chest
[04:29.0]close to where the heart beats strong.
[05:03.0]No pains will occur when her hand is pushed into my flesh
[05:10.0]She＇ll slowly draw my living heart out of my open chest.
[05:18.0]She＇ll place my heart in the pit of the snake and behold the years go by.
[05:25.0]Hers to keep from the moment when the time has come for me to die.
[05:37.0]By a lake in an open part of the Eternal Woods...
[05:39.0]Noon...
[05:42.0]＂The one eyed old man had told him of a lake. Its bottom uniting with the
[05:44.0]end of the universe, Fall into it and there is no return. To reach its
[05:47.0]bottom will take a thousand generations. When this world was anew, the one
[05:49.0]eyed old man, then a young wanderer, hidden behind a tree, had overheard
[05:52.0]two gods speak as they walked by. All the knowledge of all worlds, old and
[05:54.0]new, was kept safe in a lake in a part of the Eternal Woods. The one eyed
[05:56.0]old man had found the lake after having taken away by a magical blizzard.
[05:58.0]Throwing his left eye into its black water he had gained not only all the
[06:00.0]gathered knowledge of all the worlds. He had also been granted the sight
[06:02.0]into the future. Set to find this lake, the young man mounts his satllion.
[06:04.0]Riding with the speed of the winds high in the sky, he all of a sudden sees
[06:06.0]the sun reflected in a lake. Standing by it, he throws both of his eyes
[06:08.0]into the depths. Now he will not need to stare down the beast on the day of
[06:10.0]The Battle.
[06:12.0]Now he had gained supreme vision offering his eyes to The Lake...＂