[Intro] Black frost gnaws the marrow New Year's night swallows flame a priest stumbles the rime-crusted trail swallowed by unyielding gloom [Verse 1] Thunder cracks without cloud hounds vomit their baying rage horns tear the shroud of quiet a cavalcade of scourged souls surges Knights fused to glowing iron ladies in threadbare shrouds monks with features melted black peasants bound to iron remorse [Pre-Chorus] Molten plates brand their ribs brimstone clots the winter breath sin's tonnage fractures bone they drag their penance without rest [Chorus] FAMILIA HERLECHINI wretched legion of the scourged cavalcade of seared revenants cursed to ride the winter's edge WALCHELIN STARES IN DREAD "Haec sine dubio" he rasps FAMILIA HERLECHINI the unrelenting hunt [Verse 2] He lunges for a phantom mount flames devour his grasping flesh a rider clamps his windpipe shut scar of cinder brands him yet Glowing edges weep their venom sulphur fouls the biting gale no reprieve no cleansing rite only anguish carved in veins [Pre-Chorus] No quarter in the gelid void debts repaid in searing coils the hunt consumes the beating core muttering each forgotten name [Chorus] FAMILIA HERLECHINI hosts ripped from purging fire cavalcade of seared revenants blasphemy astride the pyre WALCHELIN CARRIES THE BRAND "Haec sine dubio familia" HERLEQUINI EST the damned refuse to fade [Bridge] Suppose the horns already know your pulse each breath still feeds the frost's design one night they'll carve your epitaph and bind you to their endless line One gale will steal your given name one baying pack will track your scent you'll swell their ranks of wretched kin where pleas dissolve in ash and wind [Final Chorus] FAMILIA HERLECHINI the hunt that gnaws through epochs from Norman frost to final pyre the scourged ascend forever WALCHELIN'S CRY RESOUNDS across centuries of rime and blaze FAMILIA HERLECHINI we're summoned to their blaze [Outro] ...familia... herlechini...
