Third track on Eluveitie’s fourth studio album, Everything Remains (As It Never Was), “Thousandfold” is probably one of the most popular songs of the swiss folk metal band. About the lyrics, lead singer and writer Chrigel Glanzmann stated:
“The song is actually about the character of Orgetorix, who...
Sprinkled by the trappings
Of words that make the outlines
Blur on the showplace of made history
The folk is willed
To parrot the dishes up tale
The lure of a higher meaning
Cheat to had to create
An enemy stereotype
To receive your absolution
A frothy poor excuse for your foray
To disengage from deeps
Of your encumbrance
[Chorus]
Behold
All our gold
Thousandfold
Bereave me
Declined
Truths ensign
Forever mine
Bereave me
March in with ten legions
Whilst the crucial weapons not the pilum
But the feather held in your hand
Penned in blood
Your tall-tales rule the forum
Altering it into the battlefield
I, the spectral guise
Evoking these barring fears
Pestering your conscript fathers
I smile at my demise and while I die
I cherish the roots of my perseverance
[Chorus]
Thousandfold was written by Ivo Henzi & Chrigel Glanzmann.
Thousandfold was produced by Colin Richardson & Eluveitie & Tommy Vetterli.
Eluveitie released Thousandfold on Sun Jan 24 2010.