Vinland Saga

[Intro]
Taking your soul and I swear
A true warrior doesn't need a sword

[Verse 1]
I once had known of peace and love, but they were taken from me
Forsaking my family couldn't shake the memory
Of watching my own father being slain by my enemy
He said I didn't have any, but hatred's my energy
I lie awake in a bed of fleas
Friends could be snakes and the rest are just men of beasts
I'm drinking from a lake full of bodies and their weaponry
Exposed to the blood and war and gaining strеngth, eventually avengе and leave to Vinland
But I'll follow my father's murderer
Into the furthest ends of Earth until the honor is returned
I've got to burn him, Ashelad, and earn it all with what I learned
The opposite of what my father's yearning for, I will endure

[Pre-Chorus]
Am I a slave to revenge?
Doing what he says and never paid in the end
Living for the same till the day that we're dead
Hear the war drums with the rage in my head

[Chorus]
Taking your soul and I swear
I'm sending you to Valhalla or Heaven, I don't care
A knife that I swore would be yours
Cause a true warrior doesn't need a sword
Taking your soul and I swear
I'm killing whether you a noble or peasant, I don't care
A knife that I swore would be yours
Cause a true warrior doesn't need a sword

[Verse 2]
Survival of the fittest in a dog eat dog world
But some want to fight it for the women or want to get paid or some are just bored
Only thing that I believe in is my own strength to avenge Thors
Look deep inside of my eyes, you see I'm raging more than Biorn
They love to kill, but I only want to kill to grow stronger
Cold like the winter snow and numb to your own slaughter
I'm dreaming every night to go to Vinland with the ghost of my father
First I got to end the man who broke an oath on water
Thorkell couldn't see, it's not about who wins
So I took his eye and promised Askeladd the consequence
For his dishonest sins, I'll be sure to chop off all his limbs
But why am I the one to fall again for my punishment?

[Pre-Chorus]
Am I a slave to revenge?
Doing what he says and never paid in the end
Living for the same till the day that we're dead
Hear the war drums with the rage in my head

[Chorus]
Taking your soul and I swear
I'm sending you to Valhalla or Heaven, I don't care
A knife that I swore would be yours
Cause a true warrior doesn't need a sword
Taking your soul and I swear
I'm killing whether you a noble or peasant, I don't care
A knife that I swore would be yours
Cause a true warrior doesn't need a sword

[Verse 3]
Hatred will keep me alive
And I'm going for your vital points bleed from the knives
Never want a piece of the pie or the wives
Only want a slice of his demise
Already had that mid-life crisis, sooner than Canute did, now we enlightened
If you seeking death, then I'ma help you find it, blood from my veins, that's blood of a Viking
I didn't sail across the ocean, so far just to die of thirst or disease or to go and starve
But I hunger for your blunder, you'll be dining next to Odin and it won't be long, even if I fight you with a broken arm
The masses gather for a spectacle of bloodshed
Clashing back and forth, but I'll bet he'll be the one dead
Askeladd sent me to war, the rivers run red
Can't avoid the ending I swore, the duel is predetermined