Album Cover Achilles, Agony And Ecstasy

Achilles, Agony And Ecstasy

Manowar

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Original Lyrics

Prelude

i) Hector Storms The Wall

See my chariot run to your ships I'll drive you back to the sea

You came her for gold the wall will not hold

This day was promised to me

The gods are my shield lightning and javelins fly

Soon many will fall we are storming the wall

Stones fall snow from the sky

We will pay with our glory in the fire of battle

Zeus today is mine

Killing all in my way like sheep and like cattle

smashing skulls of all who defy

I spare not the hammer I spare not the sword

This day will ring with my name

None have to chase me let he who will face me

Kill me or die by the sword

ii) The Death Of Patroclus

Oh friend of mine, how to say goodbye

This was your time, but the armor you wore was mine

I will not rest until Hector's blood is spilled

His bones will all be broken dragged across the field

This dear friend is how we'll say goodbye

until we meet in the sky

iii) Funeral March

iv) Armor Of The Gods

v) Hector's Final Hour

Here inside the walls of Troy, the gods weigh my fate

From this bay do I abstain, to a memory of hate

To pay for all the blood that spilled the many thousands i did kill

No walls can contain the gods' almighty will

I hear the silent voices I cannot hide

The gods leave no choices so we all must die

Oh Achilles let thy arrows fly, into the wind, where eagles cross the sky

Today my mortal blood will mix with sand it was foretold

I will die by thy hand into Hades my soul descend

vi) Death Hector's Reward

Cowards in the grip of fear, no valor to uphold

Cut into the earth, with honor long been sold

For all shall come to know me as they fall unto their knees

Zeus the Thunderer, control my destiny

When the cards of life were bealt my hand a ruthless fate

To avenge, and bringeth fury, Hector feel my hate

A bloodbath I was born to bring, by birth I'm an assassin