Herodias and I have led a phantom cavalcade
   Through veiled and pagan history where superstitions reigned
   And Christendom sought to pervert, but poets of my name
   Sang of penumbral victories that sorcery had claimed
   The Graal and mighty Caliburn as votive offerings
   To an England rearisen under vast majestic wings
  
   These are the shores whereto my soul
   Blood drenched and unredeemed
   Shalt seek solace in secrets told
   Through the whispers of a dream
  
   From the woods Pendragon-born, I rose Arcturius
   A proud, audacious King mantled in the vehemence of lust
   Death and destiny undaunted me, I drew a throne divided
   In awe of the glorious battles won, my dark Goddess provided
   Then treachery, a wingless beast, came crawling to my court
   And now I lie at cursed Camlann, from wounds a traitor wrought
  
   I fear the Augean light
   Is sweeping through Camelot
   How bittersweet my triumphs seem,
   Now Autumnal leaves succumb to frost
   Morganna art thou near me?
   Languid, I wend my path to grave
   Cast my sword to the sulphyd grasp
   Of the naiad neath the silvered lake
   When waters stirred lay silent
   Mistress let the mists descend
   Thy tears cannot thaw Death's cold heart
   His sombre gaze defies legend
   More so than thine, else thy dew-lidded eyes
   Art for the Banshees song
   Or our souls entwined like vein upon
   The haunted shores of Avalon
  
   The haunted shores of Avalon ...
  
   Bury me in velvet dream
   Lest I unduly wake
   And seek to reconcile my thirst
   With the cowardly tailors of my fate
   Unleash mastiffs of snarling night
   To overthrow, plague, and burn
   As slumber lures me 'mongst the dead
   To scheme of my return
  
   Archaic ghostly echoes breathe like thunder of the storm
   A tempest fools miscall divine as they crouch awaiting dawn
   Their ignorance has forged for me over centuries a sword
   Burnished to flash like lightning on the precipice of war
   The wolves are dead in Albion whilst the passive flocks roam free
   This my penetrant spearhead shalt pierce these foul,
   Trespassing breeds