1) Heorot's plea and Grendel's awakening.



Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk,

Mountain echo, curfews bell, signal ending tasks

They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight

The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as Grendel stalks the night



Earth rim walker seeks his meals

Prepare the funeral pyres

The shaper's song no longer heal the fear

Within their eyes, [their eyes]



Wooden figures, pagan gods, stare blindly cross the sea

Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviour born of dreams

They know their lives are forfeit now, priestly head they bow in shame

They cannot face the trembling crowd that flinch in Grendel's name



Earth rim walker seeks his meals

Prepare the funeral pyres

The shaper's song no longer heal the fear

Within their eyes, (their eyes)



As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere

Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear

He Knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify

His claws will drip with mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky



As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere

Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear

He Knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify

His claws will drip with mortal blood, as moonbeams haunt the sky



Earth rim walker seeks his meals

Prepare the funeral pyres

The shaper's song no longer heal the fear

Within their eyes, (their eyes)



2) Grendel's Journey.



Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew

Denizens of twilight lands humbly beg him through

Mother nature's bastard child shunned by leaf and stream

As alien in an alien land seeks solace within dreams

The shape