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PERFORMING ARTISTS
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Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Iver Sandøy
Iver Sandøy
Composer
Grutle Kjellson
Grutle Kjellson
Songwriter
Ivar Storm Peersen
Ivar Storm Peersen
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
In the time before time, I was fighting
The desperation
The grief, and the pain
The weapon of time I was yielding
So the kin wouldn't vanish in vain
[Verse 2]
I held out my hand, befriended the slave
He gave me hospitality and trust
Blind to the ways of the flickering kind
His reward was my treacherous lust
[Verse 3]
The soldier bid me welcome, I bowed in awe
I told him the ways of my house
He beheld the son of sense and lust
In the morning, the awareness aroused
[Verse 4]
Smugly, I entered the realm of the king
As a herald of time and of space
We carved the runes, we drank and sang
To mankind, to gods and their grace
[Verse 5]
The tree set ablaze at the end of my days
[Outro]
Awaiting my deserved death yell
Long forgotten, no one whispers my name
In the mountains and the forests, I'll dwell
Written by: Ivar Storm Peersen, Iver Sandøy, Kjetil Grutle

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