As time goes on in deceitful peace As this world grows strong in unbroken calm (Unbroken calm) By stealth and craft all Is transformed, unbeknown To you there's a tempest brewing To you there's a tempest brewing As time goes on in deceitful peace As this world grows strong in unbroken calm (As this world grows strong in unbroken calm) By stealth and craft all (by stealth and craft all) Is transformed, unbeknown (transformed, unbeknown) To you there's a tempest brewing To you there's a tempest brewing And underground hideous things are breeding Until they ripen into full-blown craze (full-blown craze) And war will burst on This budding scene Shattering your oblivious Daze (Daze) ♪ Troops advancing from west and east Enemies close in from every side Join in the apocalyptic ride Chained chimeras have been released Who could expect the defilation? Who would have seen it coming? What could upturn this earth of ours? Nothing's like what it was meant to be Face up to what we have failed to see Distorted law is the new decree For a power built on sand From tall hills, where birches grew Through grass blades pearling with dew And up yonder blooming glen Into heights beyond Into heights beyond your ken Who could expect the defilation? Who would have seen it coming? What could upturn this earth of ours? ♪ This earth of ours, translucent sphere of uncoiling life? By stealth and craft all (by stealth and craft all) Is transformed, unbeknown (transformed, unbeknown) To you there's a tempest brewing To you there's a tempest brewing (There's a tempest brewing) A voice will rise, expand and fly The story of centuries gone by Of something awful and sublime Remembrance of a distant time (Remembrance of a distant time) Of glory and troubles, beauty and shame (beauty and shame) Audacious deeds and bloody blame And bloody blame And the elven-songs will tell Of the highborn kin that fell