The Hound

Bay, O' great hound bay, in the midnight shadows Gone is the light of day, unknown is thy name Conjured from the putrid graves and cast out from the flames My soul is thine to claim, taken from this world Darkness is my only sight My brethren was taken from this life Cursed is this evil relic Damned am I, I'm in pain Madness rides the star-wind, dripping death astride Night-black ruins of buried temples of Belial The baying of that dead and fleshless whirring monstrosity Fangs yawning twistedly from grinning jaws of death An inert mass of mangled flesh Draws me to that foetid grave This fateful amulet of jade Will damn me to this ancient grave Under the frozen light of the cold moon Thickened in blood and rising full Fear does call and life does fade Upon the night when the hound does bay Bay, O' great hound bay, in the midnight shadows Gone is the light of day, unknown is thy name Conjured from the putrid graves and cast out from the flames My soul in Hell will blaze, forgotten from this world Centuries of mangled corpses Golden heads of new-buried children That faint distant, large, incessant baying Unnamed and unnamable