#53 Blood on the Ridge

[Lyrics for “Blood on the Ridge”]

In Shenandoah shadows Magnus walks alone tonight

Thorin’s pack behind him, but the valley’s losing light

Björn’s empire’s rising from Thunderfjord’s cold command

He took Dragon’s Bane’s Alpha, left their blood upon the land

Lieutenants form a wall no wolf can break or bend

Ragnarok is next to fall if the fear don’t meet its end

It’s one wolf and one grizzly at the lake where death awaits

Magnus chasing Achilles, bearing Skol Pack’s fate

If he don’t bring the legend, if Boris takes him down

The blood bath starts at sunrise, every pack will drown

Thorin dies in silence, Skol scatters to the wind

The mountains run with crimson if this gamble don’t win

Two moons back the raven flew with challenge in its cry

Boris waits for vengeance ‘neath the blood moon in the sky

Wolves and bears are enemies since the old drought days of old

One wolf can tire the monster if he plays the story bold

Magnus trained for this moment though his Alpha said don’t go

Mother warned of other roads but freedom’s all he knows

The Valhalla blood still burns hot in Magnus’s veins

He’ll exhaust that grizzly killer or he’ll die beneath the rains

If the legend cracks the terror and the hide comes back in teeth

The empire built on fear will crumble underneath

But if Magnus falls to claws there in the Teal Lake mist

The packs will turn to war and the valley won’t exist

Dragon’s Bane already gone, the others next in line

A blood bath ’cross the ridges, Skol Pack left behind

So he walks the ridge at midnight with the moon as his only kin

For the blood that runs in Valhalla, for the pack he’ll never see again

If he claims the legend’s glory the war might fade away

But if he falls to Boris then the blood bath owns the day

Of every wolf in the valley and the howls will turn to cries

As the empire takes the mountains and the freedom slowly dies