Thunder sounds my coming, this vitriolic will Lays waste these lands before me, for blood shall spill The interminable suffering in which your kin will wallow Shall wipe your seed from this earth, so none may follow Kneel and serve before me, I'll slay yours one by one Behold the age of pestilence, I am your kingdom come
Yet stood as one With tempered nerve and steel Ten thousand strong Our kings had become his pawns Hiding our fate inside their walls When tumbled down so did reveal Insidious and heinous deals To sell the souls of kindred men Deal death to those opposing them To smite the spark of life from birth And sow the seeds of hell on earth This night will see our vengeance won My life this land still holds 'til war is done
A solider's song We chant this night of the Fianns' might To drive us on and on
Ready now men with your horse-swords and bows Our dead to avenge as we round on our foes
The skies fell red and winds came cold O'er steely clasps on arms there borne Such woe beheld through eyes of men Could stir the heart to fight 'til the end Quicken your step and be bold men Lifeblood for the seasons old
From forth the mass one hundred brave Led out first charge that night And followed on ten thousand strong Their foe to bring the fight
March, on the bastion of helotry March, to the thunderous cheer Too long enslaved have our forebears been March, for the battle draws near
Ready and fire the funeral pyre Of servitude under them
Lo! The tide of iniquity slows The hour it is ripe for the blow Let children of men be shown Lest happens they forget their own Saw them sold, that kings of men Saw them sold, these kings of men Would see us sold
Impassioned cries for the war-felled men Rake thin the verve of valour's yen Foul price that sees our freedom won All life in war a victim has become
A soldier's song Intones this night our people's plight And drives us on and on and on and on...
Impassioned cries for the war-felled men Rake thin the verve of valour's yen Foul price that sees our freedom won All life in war a victim has become