The Ruin

A masonry so wondrous broken though by fate

A home without a dweller, the giant's work decayed

Towers all in ruin and the roofs are all torn down

Undermined by age and now they're mother nature bound

Oh the ruin is alive and well

Though she's quiet now with time to dwell

Oh the ruin is alive and well

If we listen she will tell

Mighty builders perish, a hundred generations part

This wall now dressed in lichen, stained in blood, a violent art

Has seen one reign after another, ages everlong

This ancient work an echo from a time forever gone

Oh the ruin is alive and well

Though she's quiet now with time to dwell

Oh the ruin is alive and well

If we listen she will tell

If we listen she will tell

Bright were the castle buildings and many bathing halls

Abundant was the laughter that would bounce around these walls

Splendid arches and parades through which the traders came

Mead halls full and prosperous til mighty fate would claim

Oh the ruin is alive and well

Though she's quiet now with time to dwell

Oh the ruin is alive and well

If we listen she will tell

If we listen she will tell

Far and wide the slain were perished, days of plague would come

Death took all the brave ones and not only our sons

Battlefields deserted, rebuilders too long gone

These buildings they grow desolate at the turning of a dawn

Oh the ruin is alive and well

Though she's quiet now with time to dwell

Oh the ruin is alive and well

If we listen she will tell

If we listen she will tell

If we listen she will tell