The Siege
Creaking, snapping, walls collapsing, catapults release,
Pouring fire from the sky, the siege has now unleashed!
The eyes of greedy men are brightly shining in this raid,
While the burning of the buildings turns the night into day
Murderous intent, destruction intertwined with lust
Their fires choking the sky with ash, ember and dust!
These raiders will burn our homes until nothing is left,
Our kingdom now sits in the hands of Death!
NO!
There is no backing down!
We fight until the end!
It is our homes that we defend!
They rise up from the night,
Like ghostly cowards avoiding sight.
Arm yourselves and on your life
Defeat their wicked strife.
NO!
You shall not back down!
We fight until the end!
It is our families we defend!
There is no retreat!
To leave now means certain defeat!
These raiders are not the ogres they seem,
We’ll thwart their wicked scheme.
Vikings:
Hey hey hey hey…
Viking Chieftain:
Attack!
Mother:
Please take my son from this burning city!
Boatman:
My cares and loyalties are not with this land.
Who are you to ask such a thing?
Mother:
Please dear sir, I beg of you- Across the sea, where your kin be.
Where he can grow and live in peace.
Boatman:
I have no use for your begging and pleas. I know not you or the boy.
Women, you’re gravely mistaken. This burden I cannot employ.
Mother:
Oh God, can nobody save him? Must he die at the hands of fiends?
Boatman:
Enough crying now! I will take him, now leave here and keep your voice low.
Mother:
My son, cry not. Now stop your tears of sad dismay.
You will live on and grow in lands so far away.
Prosper, beloved child, keep your heart free of sin.
May God hold you in the palm of his hand, until we meet again!
General:
Cataclysmic obliteration buildings smeared with death.
Men are running, men are dying there is nothing left.
The walls around us burning, there’s no hope for escape.
Once they’ve claimed our lives, there’s nothing left to take.
Murderous intent, destruction intertwined with lust.
To see my city fall fills my heart with disgust!
Annihilation of all I’ve known at these gruesome hands.
I fear this may be my final stand.
NO!
There is no backing down!
We fight until the End!
Our very lives we will Rescind!
For the glory of our king!
We’ll crush the fear that these heathens bring!
Kill as many of them as you can
To defend our land!
Mother:
A nightmare. I have failed.
My son we won’t ever meet again.
Crushing breaking lights are fading.
I die tonight. This cannot be right.
Though I fall my Blood will will live.
My son Will Carry on.
General:
Though we fall, with their blood, they’ll pay!
They have won the day.