A raven came to me,
Spoke to me in my dream.
A long lost prophecy,
A forgotten legacy.
Echoes of yesterday,
Won't let these dreams fade away.
All the beauty I adored,
At the edge of the world.
Across the universe,
Time is to be reversed.
No shelter can be found,
To this fate, we are bound!
Behold the final hour,
The last times will be dour.
All life falls into gorge
Of the end of the world!
"Burning skies
On the vengeances night.
Devastating scythe,
Of the ancient Light."
I saw the might,
Of the ancient Light!
And the beauty of the perishing world,
There's no tomorrow.
We have been warned.
"The sky's bird struck fire,
Made a flame flare up.
The north wind burnt the clearing.
The north-east quite consumed it:
It burnt all the trees to ash and reduced them to dust."
Spoke to me in my dream.
A long lost prophecy,
A forgotten legacy.
Won't let these dreams fade away.
All the beauty I adored,
At the edge of the world.
Time is to be reversed.
No shelter can be found,
To this fate, we are bound!
The last times will be dour.
All life falls into gorge
Of the end of the world!
On the vengeances night.
Devastating scythe,
Of the ancient Light."
Of the ancient Light!
And the beauty of the perishing world,
There's no tomorrow.
We have been warned.
Made a flame flare up.
The north wind burnt the clearing.
The north-east quite consumed it:
It burnt all the trees to ash and reduced them to dust."
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@TheTrooper1138: You're thinking of the wrong mythology. This song appears to be in direct reference to the Kalevala, particularly the poem 'Felling and Sowing" The bridge is taken directly from the Kalevala (wrongly might I add) The correct lines areas follows:
The sky's bird struck fire made a flame flare up The north wind burnt the clearing the north-east quite consumed it: it burnt all the trees to ash reduced them to dust.
Thank you, very helpful! And yes, I knew it wasn't a Ragnarok song. No talk of Odin's battle or anything. Also, I posted these based on copies I was listening to on Youtube. :P The quality was less than adequate.
Thank you, very helpful! And yes, I knew it wasn't a Ragnarok song. No talk of Odin's battle or anything. Also, I posted these based on copies I was listening to on Youtube. :P The quality was less than adequate.
Sounds like it's about the end of the world. Thoughts?
probably about Ragnarok, since it's "traditional"... some old prophecy about Ragnarok... makes sense since the raven is important in the northern mythology too..
I'm going to disagree with Geoff on this one and agree with TheTrooper. Everything about this song and its context points to Ragnarok ("lost prophecy, Forgotten legacy"). Yes the excerpt is from the Kalevela but its not used in context in the poem, that section can have any meaning you want it to when its out of context, and since it's put into this song, it fits with the Ragnarok meaning. Also the line "burnt all the trees to dust" is important because all tress would include Yggdrasil and that is the end of the world when that happens (Ragnarok). Odin isn't specifically mentioned in this but he is commonly associated with the form of a Raven and the raven in this song foretells this prophecy, hence Ragnarok.
So this may be a bit far-fetched, but hear me out:
I think the song speaks upon the loss of indigenous, primal beliefs due to the new Abrahamic paradigm.
"I saw the might, Of the ancient Light! And the beauty of the perishing world, There's no tomorrow. We have been warned."
I interpret that the song itself and the music video give hints to the looming threat of a dark force engulfing the world in its shadow. The "ancient light" is seemingly now a force we could find through our primordial knowing and intuition. Assimilation into dogmatic religions is the true cancer of this Universe. Salvation is met from within, not from the material and external. Tap into your power today and avert away from the venomous teachings of lies we have been fed since the day we were born.