Blood of Ancients by Dagon Lyrics
Once I was stranded in my pride
My vision blind by the scope of things prescribed
Then by the words of a contemplative mind
My dreams took flight and the sage within me thrived
What once with certainty I had considered myth
Fiction gone amiss, the stuff of abyss
I see as more than tales men whisper in the night
The truth will come to light and proof will come with sight
To the ends of the earth
To a place where dreams make berth
I feel the blood of the ancients swimming through my veins
A call to see what they have seen
A faith in dreams and visions in my soul ingrained
Could I believe what they believed?
Once the envy of peers
My new convictions have resigned me to their jeers
I must stand up to my fears
Lest I be consumed for years, the path to me is clear
By providence alone ride to the marches and beyond
Were few have gone, I'll travel on
Until I find the legends that men have lost
Consigned to memory, cast aside as Zeus or Thath
Onward I ride to the west and to the east
To seek the proof I need and my torment's surcease
Verities confound me as a stag eludes a hound
But I'll have my vindication and tell of what I've found
My vision blind by the scope of things prescribed
Then by the words of a contemplative mind
My dreams took flight and the sage within me thrived
What once with certainty I had considered myth
Fiction gone amiss, the stuff of abyss
I see as more than tales men whisper in the night
The truth will come to light and proof will come with sight
To the ends of the earth
To a place where dreams make berth
I feel the blood of the ancients swimming through my veins
A call to see what they have seen
A faith in dreams and visions in my soul ingrained
Could I believe what they believed?
Once the envy of peers
My new convictions have resigned me to their jeers
I must stand up to my fears
Lest I be consumed for years, the path to me is clear
By providence alone ride to the marches and beyond
Were few have gone, I'll travel on
Until I find the legends that men have lost
Consigned to memory, cast aside as Zeus or Thath
Onward I ride to the west and to the east
To seek the proof I need and my torment's surcease
Verities confound me as a stag eludes a hound
But I'll have my vindication and tell of what I've found