Welcome To Dying Lyrics

Lyric discussion by PanteroBlanco 

Cover art for Welcome To Dying lyrics by Blind Guardian

This is about a German folk story in which a man gradually turns into a dragon and takes revenge on the people of a city that did him wrong.

A similar story (likely based on this one) takes place in Mark Rogers' Zorachus series.

Heydrich: It does remind me somewhat of "Little Dragon" Vlad the Impaler, but the above explanation was the one given by one of the band members. Possibly the folk story was inspired by him?