Autumn Roars Thunder Lyrics - Singles - Darkwoods My Betrothed

Torchlight in utter darkness 

Starts licking wood with its deadly tongue 

In seconds its hunger grows 

Wood is eaten by flames twelve feet long 

Before the eyes of heathens 

The shrine of the cross lights up the glade 

On the ground lie six bodies 

That have met their fate by pagan blade 

Hear the autumn thunder in the sky 

Vanishing the mild summer breeze 

An autumn thunder roars down on the ground 

By its force the foreign god flees 

A flash of steel cuts flesh 

By doing so it cuts the cross 

The mossy ground drinks the blood 

Of a hundred men in white clothes 

The morning smells of death 

But still it feels like a fresh wind 

After so many years 

Where the forests returned to the pagan kings 

Hear the autumn thunder in the sky 

Vanishing the mild summer breeze 

An autumn thunder roars down on the ground 

By its force the foreign god flees 

Fullmoon turned to crescent and crescent to fullmoon 

Many times over the forests of Hme 

The old gods were respected 

And new houses rose on the ashes of the cross 

All was at peace 

When the summer began to turn to autumn 

But when the first leaves turned to yellow and brown 

People began to see signs...bad omens 

One day a hunter from the coast came 

And told he had heard rumours 

The ships of the foe had been seen in northwest 

And their numbers were great 

Morning mist chilly was floating up from the sea 

At a dawn when leaves were falling down from trees 

Gathered were the pagan kings to the circle of stones 

Out of silence rose a man known as wise and old 

"We've all seen the fires 

And heard the tale of the hunter 

Hear my words when I say 

This autumn roars thunder" 

Passed dusks and dawns two times ten 

Fires burning were not on their hills 

Again was blood flowing, now of heathen men 

The foe had returned to burn and kill 

Village by village they went 

Leaving only crosses and ashes behind 

Until pagans were beaten 

By their body, not their mind 

Poured water on their heads 

Mumbling words of a foreign tongue 

Built houses for their god 

Was the pride of these forests forever gone? 

Hear the autumn thunder fade away 

With its echo they lost their pride 

Freedom of centuries was lost in days 

The autumn thunder in their hearts had died 

(Music: Teemu, Pasi and Thomas 

Words: Teemu)