[Spoken Intro] Gather in, you relics old Raise your pints up to the flame Tonight we sing of prime-evil And the fools who wore the name Cleric, sit beside the fire You kept this rabble breathing And you, scout, stop pretending We know where you were sneaking [Minstrel Verse 1] Long after Arthur rode away Albion cracked but stood Three realms went mad beneath the moon For relic, keep and blood North roared mighty Midgard Axes shouting at the sky West sang old Hibernia With murder in its eyes But in the middle stood Albion Stubborn, proud and thin With knights and scouts and lunatics All shouting, speed song in [Build] No king called us together No angel brought a plan Just a few mates in a tavern Saying, look at this mad land No prophecy, no silver crown No raid sheet carved in stone Just wipe three times, blame the lag Then never ride alone [Pre-Chorus] Blame the pathing, blame the dog Blame the rain and mist Blame the cleric, blame the mez Then raise another fist When the frontier called our names Through chaos, fire and pain Someone laughed in guild chat And someone shouted, Again [Chorus] prime-evil, prime-evil Raise your voices high prime-evil, prime-evil Albion never dies prime-evil, prime-evil Through the wipe and flame prime-evil, prime-evil We came back again prime-evil, prime-evil Blame lag, fate and rain prime-evil, prime-evil We nearly had them then [Verse 2] There stood Gudd at the gate Like a wall that learned to breathe Plate on like a warning sign Polearm underneath When Gudd stood still, the keep stood firm When Gudd walked, foemen ran When Gudd said nothing, all assumed It was some tactical plan Then came Berthold with a grin A song beneath his hand Minstrel, guildmaster, trouble's friend Fastest fool in all the land He charmed the beast, he climbed the wall He vanished from the team Then came back with half of Midgard And called it just a dream [Pre-Chorus] Where Gudd was iron Berthold was wind Where Gudd held the line Berthold dragged trouble in One gave courage One gave speed And somehow in the madness They gave us what we'd need [Chorus] prime-evil, prime-evil Raise your voices high prime-evil, prime-evil Albion never dies prime-evil, prime-evil Through the wipe and flame prime-evil, prime-evil We came back again [Verse 3] Scouts came from every shadow Patient, cold and sly Saying inc four beats too late As mez went flying by Infiltrators moved like whispers With murder in their boots Clerics raised the fallen fools Who had ignored their roots Friars came with holy sticks Theurgists filled the air Paladins glowed bright and noble Then chaos found us there The late ones and the lost ones The drunk ones and the brave Half geared, half mad, half ready But no one left to cave [Breakdown Chant] Hurbury Say the name with pride Hurbury Where the old ghosts ride Hurbury Where the gate held fast Hurbury Where the memories last [Drop] Boots down, drums rise Tankards to the sky prime-evil, prime-evil Albion never dies [Verse 4] Hurbury, our stone heart More than walls and keep Where Albion held through moonlit raids And half the guild lost sleep When Midgard thundered southward Thinking Albion soft and tame They found the gate had teeth that night And prime-evil was the name When Hibernia came through mist All smug beneath the moon They found our scouts sat bitter there Since half past afternoon Did we win each battle No, don't talk like that We charged when we should wait And waited to attack We wiped in piles, we pulled too much We ran the wrong way too But every time the dust had cleared The old horn somehow blew [Bridge] It was never just the winning Victories fade like smoke It was logging back in laughing After everything was broke It was anyone still about After twenty years had flown Guild chat catching fire again Like you had never gone Someone's shouting need a rez Someone's dead outside the door Someone says one final run And we all know there's more [Final Build] Drink to Gudd, the iron gate Drink to Berthold's song Drink to every scout in shadow Who claimed they weren't gone long Drink to clerics, friars, paladins To theurgists and flame Drink to every half mad soul Who ever wore the name Drink to Hurbury, drink to Albion Then raise it up again [Final Chorus] prime-evil, prime-evil Raise your voices high prime-evil, prime-evil Albion never dies prime-evil, prime-evil Through the wipe and flame prime-evil, prime-evil We came back again prime-evil, prime-evil Let the old horn sound prime-evil, prime-evil Raise the banner from the ground prime-evil, prime-evil Through joy and through pain prime-evil, prime-evil We came back again [Outro] Keeps may fall Servers may change But when one old fool remembers The tavern roars to life The fire catches The horn rings clear The frontier opens wide And somewhere out near Hurbury prime-evil rides prime-evil, prime-evil Raise one more for the name prime-evil, prime-evil We came back all the same
