WINTER IS COMING
Lyrics: © 2001 Juliane Honisch / Music: © 2001 Kerstin Dröge

When the shadows from the wild grow black
Slither hither with cold winter ice
Monsters from the fairy tales come back
And demand for summer time their price.
And we long for summer's bright long sun
Which did warm us for so many years
But cruel winter truly has begun,
Will make icy crystals of our tears

Winter is coming
Winter is nigh
Winter's upon us like a dreaded foe
And will not go
Will not go for a long time

And now armies cross our splintered realm
Spilling pillage, murder, rape and hate.
Like a bloody river overwhelm
Everyone who fled and ran too late.
But where can you run when danger's rife
Dragons in the south, ice in the north
And five kings' marauders hunt your life
Kill and without further thought march forth

Winter is coming
Winter is nigh
Winter's upon us like a dreaded foe
And will not go
Will not go for a long time

Children will wear swords and mothers weep
Brother will kill brother without doubt
And a stream of blood runs dark and deep
And no street, nor path nor way leads out.
We're within the fiery realm of war
Honour counts for nought, mercy for less
Noble knights leave tracks and trails of gore
At the outcome you can only guess

Incest, fratricide, patricide and more
Open up the door
To bloody gory war
And what once was lore
Is coming from the snowy, icy wall
To kill you all.

Bastard brother of the night watch black
You will take no wife and have no kin,
but you try to keep the monsters back,
time has eaten your defences thin.
You have sworn an oath to watch the wall
And you broke that oath to save more lives
One more oath you swear to break for all
Can your broken oaths make us survive?

Winter is coming
Winter is nigh
Winter's upon us like a dreaded foe
And will not go
Will not go for a long time