Lord of the ages rode one night
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Out through the gateways of time
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Astride a great charger
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In a cloak of white samite
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He flew on the air
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Like a storm
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Dark was the night
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For he gathered the stars in his hand
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To light a path through the sky
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While the hooves of his charger
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Made comets of fire
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Bewitching all eyes
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Beheld them
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Lord of the ages, nobody knows
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Whether he goes, nobody knows
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Below a dark forest in caves of black granite
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The children of darkness dwelt in oblivion
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Betraying one another in endless confusion
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But the lord of the dark
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Had bewitched them
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From time’s first creation
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The wise men and prophets
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And all workers of magic
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Had warned of the reckoning
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The wind and the fire
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And the plague of destruction that follows the path
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Of evil
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Lord of the ages, nobody knows
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Whether he goes, nobody knows
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Far above the wide ocean and thundering rivers
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Through the sun and the rain
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The turn of the seasons
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Rode the god of all knowing
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While all around him celestial companions
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Friends from the void before time was woven
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Honour his crown with words of white fire
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And carry his robes of light
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Whither he goes, nobody knows
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But in the peace of a valley
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A young child was born
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Filling the night with his crying
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And an old man gave thanks to the lord of the ages
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Who’s battle is not with innocence
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But the birds of the air were silent
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Knowing that time had come when time was forgotten
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The waters were stilled
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The mountains stood empty
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And the cities were deaf
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Long, long ago
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Enough
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Cried a voice
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And the earth was awakened
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Poor and the rich fell to ring of the fire
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Death and destruction rode out together
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Turning the world to a funeral pyre
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It was the lord of the ages
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Gathering in the harvest
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I said the lord of the ages
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Gathering in the harvest
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Oh, lord
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Gathering in the harvest
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Gathering in the harvest (repeated by backing vocals)
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And from the blood and the thunder of men and their dying
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His eyes dark with sorrow
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The lord of the ages
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Gathered in his harvest
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Gathering in the harvest (repeated by backing vocals)
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But to the old and helpless
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The weak and the humble
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To the children of light
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His words of compassion breezed on them gently
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Dissolving the darkness across the great valley that rumbled with fire
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And from the death and destruction
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The lord of the ages
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Carried the fruit to the harvest
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To freedom
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Lord of the ages, nobody knows
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Whither he goes, nobody knows |