Bathory - Man Of Iron lyrics

I have paced these forests for so long I don't know if I am man or I am beast. I, though, hold deep within me a quest for revenge. Then I must be a man as much as I can be. I have learned to speak the tongue of the animal I have learned to read the signs in bark and snow. I have taken within myself the spirits of my fathers, long time gone. In this short time, far from home, a man of Iron I've grown. A man of Iron I have grown. A part of the Eternal Woods... Late evening... ["Just after sunset on his way back to his camp after watching the sun unite] [with the mountains in the west, he sees the flickering of light between the] [tree trunks. Approaching, he sees an old man sitting calmly by a fire, as] [if waiting for him. His left eye missing. His beard as if gold. The signs] [on his cloak and hood familiar. The one eyed old man matches the] [description of the soothsayer, as told by the elders of his village by the] [fires at night when he only a child. The boy, now a young man, eager to] [know, asks the one eyed old man about his dreams. Dreams he cannot] [understand. Dreams about strange things he is seeing himself doing. Then] [the winds that seem to talk to him. Voices that whisper to him behind his] [back. The one eyed old man tells him of the cycles of the stars, of the] [trail of fate and of the valley where time and space had ceased to exist...] [where his world ends and the shadows begin. The one eyed old man tells the] [young man that fate has chosen him to interfere with the other world. The] [disturbance is already made. The daughters of the four winds have sold] [themselves to the shadows, distorting the balance of the universe. And the] [one eyed old man says he has seen him come for a thousand years, and that] [the aging gods have told him to teach him all that he has ever known and to] [prepare him to ride beyond his world and into the shadows as their champion] [to restore the balance. To his aid he shall be given a sword forged when] [this world was young. He shall be guarded and guided by two ravens, and he] [shall ride the eight-legged stallion of his fathers' god. He will encounter] [the Woodwoman, and he will make a visit to the Lake. One hundred days and] [one hundred nights his training shall be hard. And this very night it will] [already have begun.] [And thus he had met the One Eyed old Man..."]