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Ashen the world creates itself |
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Up the branches down the roots |
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Pecked atby birds |
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By worms gnawed |
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At the crossroads |
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By the graves among therowan trees |
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Nailed white as ivory |
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With skulls that grin amidst the rot |
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For strange are these woods to fare |
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Stranger the fruit they bear |
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Oh hang me high |
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Upon that tree |
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For all the secrets to find me |
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Asravens' claws |
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As eagles' bills |
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As Wotan's eyes upon the hills |
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Oh ten Ihave of fingers fine |
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For all the evil's work in the night |
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Oh baby I willgrow for you from a tree |
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Burning with glory |
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Given to trolls and ogre broods |
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Days will drown in twilight's gloom |
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Where black dogs howl |
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Pulling up mandragore |
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Chained to the ash forevermore |
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Deaf to the world's grey roar |
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Digging up treasures vile and foul |
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Eye for an eye for a rune |
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Drawing down the waning moon |
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Howled at by allwolves |
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Ensnared 'til the day of doom |
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So hang me high |
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Upon that tree |
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For all the secrets to find me |
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Asravens' claws |
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As eagles' bills |
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As Wotan's eyes upon the hills |
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Oh ten Ihave of fingers fine |
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For all the evil's work in the night |
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Oh baby I willgrow for you from a tree |
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Burning with glory |
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All crooks and ghouls who understand |
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Cherish the work of idle hands |
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Allof the pages turned |
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All of the treasures yearned |
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All of the fingersburned |
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Burning with |
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Glory |