Nails
The Legend of the Six Fingered Man
I am definitely not Inago Montoya.
Background
I read an article about the discovery of an ancient burial for a person who was obviously some kind of soldier/warrior and his grave was covered in bent nails. There are some folks who believe that this was to ward off evil spirits or to keep the dead’s spirit from rising from the grave.
- Darby
Lyrics
(Chorus)
Not even the nails will keep me away
Haunting the memories of the living day to day
The last door is broken when you utter my name
Love and fear become won in the same
driving angry steel through their lovers chests
sent them all to lie in their final rest
the blood and the breath
the sweet taste of death
Now their swords held in their final grip
(Chorus)
In a short life lived
By the blade and despised
Fought through the battle
Til the last one demised
Til the boat capsized
Til there was no one left
Til I saw the crowning glory
of my last sunrise
(Chorus)
Buried under leaves
for thousands of eves
the long sleep is upset
and now I've come to collect
(Chorus)