Týr - Eric the Red

Song by Týr, from the album with the same name. Long Live Týr! \m/

Why I take refuge here, my father was
outlawed from the old land in east
A story of bloodshed and I too was outlawed, now I take refuge here

What brings you here my friend, what brings you north to where hell is of ice
South from the sand dunes where hell is of fire, why have you come so far
Anywhere, you don't care where you

Go as long as there are faithless you can make believe need help
And that you have the cure, of your intentions, I'm sure
I can't bring it all to reason you've
convinced these people that all
Their ancestors were wrong, disoriented they do not know where they belong
Like a virus you'll go on, and when I'm dead and gone
Both sides waging war will be for one true divinity

Like a virus you'll go on, and when I'm dead and gone
Both sides waging war will be raging in the name of one true divinity

This I don't understand, why this perverted superhuman ideal
So we are born to nothing but torture and torment, that, I don't understand

Clearly I see the end, I pray that the embers will persist from my faith
Clearly I'm outnumbered, allegedly outdated,since your arrival here.
Anywhere, you don't care where you

Go as long as there are faithless you can make believe need help
And that you have the cure, of your
intentions, I'm sure
I can't bring it all to reason you've
convinced these people that all
Their ancestors were wrong, disoriented they do not know where they belong

Like a virus you'll go on, and when I'm dead and gone
Both sides waging war will be for one true divinity
Just convert the whole wide world, into the abyss we are hurled
Sentenced come end of the world, spare me your selfrighteous word

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Viking
• Metal
• Týr
• Eric
• the
• Red

[Icelandicviking68]

Erik Thorvaldsson (Old Norse: Eirīkr Þōrvaldsson; 950 – c. 1003 a.d), known as Erik the Red (Old Norse: Eirīkr hinn rauði[1]), is remembered in medieval Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first Nordic settlement in Greenland. The Icelandic tradition indicates that he was born in the Jæren district of Rogaland, Norway, as the son of Thorvald Asvaldsson, he therefore also appears, patronymically, as Erik Thorvaldsson (Eiríkr Þorvaldsson).

[KnifeNut88]

@powerslave02 Tyr is not racist. Odinism has nothing to do with Nazi's or Fascism.

[ThePinkCamal]

most underated band ever

[Orklord90]

@ownya88 Tyska Varg är också Anti-Rasister, om du inte visste om det?

[Orklord90]

@ownya88 Och Týr är öppet anti-rasister, precis som Amon Amarth, och det är jag hjärtligt stolt över och jag har även tackat dem så personligt det går för stunden(via Facebook). Jag är asatroende och jag är ren anarkist och kommunist. Vikingarock är ju egentligen en ren nationalistiskt/patriotisk musik och är ju inte så byggd på asatro över huvudtaget. Lyssnar på Viking Metal, där texterna bara handlar om Asatro och dylikt. Kärlek till mina bröder i Týr!

[TheHornedOne81]

I am not a racist, but I do believe that when you move to a new place you must become a part of that new place. You do not have to take on the religion or even the clothing, but you must assimilate to the culture itself. If you are moving there it is because there is better than where you come from, so do not try to make it like where you come from... Very simple logic.

[TheHornedOne81]

Anti-immigrant is not racist... I am a firm believer in adopting the culture of the country that you emigrate to. My ancestors did that when they came to the US, but now Immigrants feel that they do not need to adopt the culture of their new home, they wish to bring their culture into their new land and force it on the current inhabitants. The US was wrong to do that to the native cultures here, and we are excoriated for it regularly, but certain cultures are being allowed to do it even today...

[blackspiraldancer6]

title does not represent the lyrics. mostly a great song about christian oppression. 1000 YEARS OF OPPRESSION!!!

[TheLoonFaeGertly]

Someone, Where the fuck can i get some guitar tab to this!?

[ToozeTheBard]

@RicardoGadelha

Overall, your post was pretty good if English isn't your mother tongue. :P

[RicardoGadelha]

@ToozeTheBard hehe, sorry. English isn't my mother tongue xD

[ToozeTheBard]

@RicardoGadelha

Ethnicities, although I know what you mean. ;)