Returned He Walks Again

[Verse 1] We laid white lilies every winter At the cliff above the ice For a man the world called legend And a country called its price And now he has awakened Beneath the glacier's snow From silent halls of frost and mourning Where winter would not let him go [Chorus] Returned unto his lilies Returned unto his land Our protector walks again With bright steel in his hand Not for glory Not for fame But so the earth survives the flame [Verse 2] The glacier where he vanished No longer reached the stone The mountain that once hid him Had withered to the bone And there beneath the meltwater Where endless winter died The Angel bowed his head And wept for what survived [Chorus] Returned unto his lilies Returned unto his land Our protector walks again With bright steel in his hand Not for glory Not for fame But so the earth survives the flame [Bridge] He did not return for conquest Nor glory drenched in blood Not as the Hand of Michael But Gabriel before the flood The Sword of France fights again Not for crown nor throne nor king But for the rivers, fields, and forests And every living thing [Final Chorus] Returned unto his lilies Returned unto his land Our protector walks again With bright steel in his hand Not for vengeance Not for war But so the earth may live once more [Outro] Returned unto his lilies Beneath the darkened sky The Angel walks beside us now While old worlds fade and die Not for vengeance Not for war But so the earth may live once more