The Morning Star

from The Powers That Be by Mercy

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lyrics

Far to the South a star
Bright-shining over all
A sound of voices singing
Round a Babe in an ox's-stall

Three Kings a-riding, riding,
With gifts of myrrh and gold
Far, far from the wild North Ocean
Of which this tale is told

By the sea, in the Hall of Beele
Were Yule and joy and feast
Outside was the noise of the ocean
And storm, like a howling beast

The King sate at the banquet
With his Jarls and Berserks hale
Quaffing to Thor and Odin
Huge horns of mead and ale

Unheeded howled the winter
Round the oak walls of the King
For a mighty skald with a runic harp
Made the hall re-echoing ring

Loud laughed the blonde Norse maidens
As they brimmed the barmy cup
Where the torches flickered the war-blades
And the bucklers hanging up

But out by the thundering North Sea
Ten shattered dragons lie
Vessels, like great sea-monsters
To the billows heaving high

And pale and hacked with gashes
Mid his battered arms lies low
The red-haired Viking, Hareck
Half-buried in the snow

And wan, where the waves beat sullen
Lies his brother, one-eyed Hulf
Above whose mail’d visage
Snarls the winter-famished wolf

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from The Powers That Be, released March 1, 2023
Music: Phillippe Levidad
Vocals: Daniel Corpse
Mixing/Mastering: Bruno Bassani

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Mercy Curitiba, Brazil

Mercy is a black metal studio project from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, drawing inspiration from Antestor, Vaakevandring and Vardøger, with lyrical themes ranging from Christianity to Nature and Norse folklore.

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