Standing at the shadows edge
A slice of moon
Sliding off some distant cosmic ledge
Side by side
Tail by tail
Two of a kind
They're a sleeping gale
The hunter and his loyal servant
Listening to a dark silent rhyme
The ferocious slayer and his 
Fiendish untamed canine
Coal creatures
Cold predators
Noses to the air
They can smell the blood
Taste the sweet fear
Feel the adrenaline
Death is lurking near

They came into the picture
From the east
A wizened stranger 
His four-legged beast
Travelers up from some remote land
Him chanting in a tongue
Unknown to modern man
Looking to conquer a great evil
Perhaps the proverbial devil
They came
Hoping for some ancient mystical miracle

Standing in the shadows
Side by side
A lust for carnage
Too strong to hide
Ghostly red within midnight black
The order…
Hound from hell, attack, attack!

Blade and fang in frantic motion
Destruction swiftly outward bound
The Tar daemon  
Feeding alongside
His fiendish hound

Nothing is right
Nothing is wrong
They haunt the night
And own this town
A blackguard king and his savage hound


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