Eve Of The Nine Kings Lyrics

A bell resounds, my dreams abound
With sundered sights and vexing sounds
Erratic sleep; my conscience bleeds
A squalid mire of stale debris
The wraith it came the night before
O'er the lane and through my door
On its grating breath, a note it bore
A note just like the night before
"Arise from sleep", it spoke to me with dripping tongues and gaping teeth
"The eve is nigh, the time is near, look to the sky in seven years.
The sea will rise, the earth will heave the kings of nine will downward sweep
On thrones of porous ivory, the heads of men under their feet."
"A dream, no doubt", I thought aloud
Patting sweat atop my brow
Relieved to be awake and free
Of horrid dreams and restless sleep
I rubbed my eyes but trembled for
I found a pair of gaping sores
Affright, I yelled a ghastly roar
I dug them out the night before