The Sound Of Eight Hooves w/ Lyrics - Amon Amarth

"The Sound of Eight Hooves" from The Crusher album by Amon Amarth. I don't own any rights to this song. Was surprised to see nobody had put this up already.

Lyrics:

He's running through woods so black
A loyal servant of Christ
Dogs are barking down his back
He's running for his life

He came with words of love and peace
These heathens had to be saved
He thought that he could make them see
Instead he was enslaved

In captivity he spoke of God
To all he met he preached
But when his masters patience ran out
He knew he had to flee

Tears are running down his cheeks
As he sobbing realise
That in this land his God is weak
And today he's going to die

He stumbles out onto an open field
Where an old oak tree grows
In the branches hang men of three
Dressed in preacher robes

His knees refuse to carry him on
Terror shines in his eyes
His faith in Christ is almost gone
His God's left him to die
Below the dead he says his prayers
To the God he thought was alive
When he hears a calm voice say
"Shut him up, and hang him high!"

As his breath leaves his eyes open wide
A bright light comes from above
He greets this light with a smile
And thinks "...there is a God!"

The Sound of Eight Hooves reaches his ears
Comes from the heavenly light
Two wolves' howls fills his heart with fear
And he sees two ravens fly

Down from the sky a warlord rides
Like fire, his one eye glows
And just before the preacher dies
He knows his God is false.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• metal
• swedish melodic death metal
• amon amarth
• sound of eight hooves

[SalemGreywolf]

in the end, though, the Vikings lost

[TabooWolf]

@SalemGreywolf No-one cares. This is a song, not a fucking Scandinavian Nationalist Manifesto. Fuck off.

[powersv2]

And yet, Christianity owned the pagans. Oh well, I guess nostalgia is ok from time to time. Missionaries embrace their fate before they even leave their house. The lyrics may be epic, but they show how exactly the vikings and visigoths lost the battle. Brutality will always lose in the end.

[TabooWolf]

@powersv2 I'm sorry? Brutality will always lose? Do you know WHY Scandinavia is now Christian? Do you know HOW Christians converted and subjugated every race and religion they ever came into contact with? The brutality, violence and sheer boundless malevolence of the Christian lie is far more evil than anything the Vikings ever concocted. Read a history book.

[archatmosphere11]

@TabooWolf actually the Scandinavian countries are amongst the most Atheist countries in the world

[TabooWolf]

@archatmosphere11 Nowadays, of course - we're referring here to the end of the Viking Age, when the Kingdoms of the north embraced Christianity :P

[chillsomsatan]

without a doubt the best lyrics ever...

[TabooWolf]

@allmetaliswelcome It's Odin. The song is called "the sound of eight hooves" - Odin's horse had eight hooves. He also mentions that the warlord has one red eye, as did Odin, and before he arrives two wolves howl and two ravens fly - Odin had two wolves and two ravens. He basically appears and the preachers realises that the Norse religion is correct and Christianity is false :) Deadly lyrics xD

[gaelwynmackwyn]

@TabooWolf Fucking word, man. Some people gotta learn to have fun.

[zonker400]

@TabooWolf Hooray for Varg Vikerness I suppose...

[zonker400]

@powersv2 You mean Christianity will always cause those it converts to lose in the end.

[zonker400]

@SalemGreywolf And now it's your turn...

[Sabbathman1979]

This must be my favourite of the album, my bones crack beneath the force of the Eight Hooves...

[blackaddera]

@TabooWolf not to speak of the crusades and the murders on Vikings who came back to their homes after years of fighting.

[jnashblottin62]

@TabooWolf fuckin a brother

[Mrpain368]

3 missionaries were hung from Thors Oak.