It's the age of the raven and now they are spreading their wings With just one thing in their minds they burn and destroy everything In a cloud of aggression they swoop to take their prey again As they're circling the air their dark shadows are cast over me Will they take me? Will they take them? Will they take us all as their victims? If you show them the fear in your eyes you will never be free Do we stand up and fight them or run and hide never be seen As you stare at the city the place is a burial ground Left in hiding are those who are hunted, don't dare make a sound Will they pray for me? Will they take them? Will they take us all as their victims? Will God answer me? Hear my prayers now? Will he save me from this hell on earth? Now, do I save myself? Burn it all behind and leave everyone else to die As they're being eaten alive And they take out their eyes, leave them blind This time I fight I must search within myself and find Whatever it takes to survive Never facing my fears, always turning to run But this time I will overcome In the distance we hear them, the ravens preparing to fly And the thunder of wings getting closer reign down from the sky The invasion of black is a dark cloud that covers the sun Now the darkness descending upon us, there's nowhere to run Will they pray for me? Will they take them? Will they take us all as their victims? Will God answer me? Hear my prayers now? Will he save me from this hell on earth? Now, do I save myself? Burn it all behind and leave everyone else to die As they're being eaten alive And they take out their eyes, leave them blind This time I fight I must search within myself and find Whatever it takes to survive Never facing my fears, always turning to run But this time I will overcome Waiting for weakness Then preying, no mercy is given With all this bloodshed and crying I beg for the end I must search within myself and find Whatever it takes to survice Never facing my fears, always turning to run But this time I will overcome I must search inside myself and see All the courage that's deep within me Never facing my fears, always running away The beginning of a raven age is upon us

Fly straight with perfection Find me a new direction We never realised the things they said We never realise until we're dead The fires they burned Along the coast of triumphs The ebony embittered souls of children We'll seek another way before too long But will you stop my wind Before I'm gone And when you find me And when you find me all alone Your world has never been my own And when you find me And when you find me all alone Your world has never been my own My friend you're black And when you fly you're wild I am white, sometimes I behave Just like a child The Northern seas are cold But they're our own We'll sail your Southern seas Before too long When I was a Viking My friend he was the Raven

Wasting your days Chasing some girls, alright Chasing cocaine through the back rooms Of the world all night Wasting your days Chasing some girls, alright Chasing cocaine through the back rooms Of the world all night Sounds, smash hits, melody maker, NME All sound like a dream to me All sound like a dream to me All sounds like a dream Sounds, smash hits, melody maker, NME All sound like a dream to me All sound like a dream to me All sounds like a dream Step out of your toga and into the fog You are a prince on the ocean In a pinch, in the sky, in your eye Step out of your toga and into the ocean Look, they got your prints on the fog In a pinch, in the sky, in your eye In the sky, in your eye In a pinch, in the sky, in your eye I wrote a song for America, who knew? I wrote a song for America, who knew? Who knew?

You terrify the land, you are pestle and mortar Your first love's new order, mother nature's son King of the Everglades, population 1 I write poetry for myself, I write poetry for myself Oh, baby Blue eyes You're a permanent figure of jacked up sorrow I want you to love me, you send me a coffin of roses I guess that's the way that things go these days Take pills, for instance, I heard they're no good for you "I won't and I never will," she said "I won't and I never will, I won't and I never will I won't and I never will, I won't and I never will" Blue eyes, blue eyes Oh baby, can't you see they had it in for me? They had it in for me, they had it in for me Oh, baby can't you see they had it in for me (I won't and I never will) They had it in for me, blue eyes Oh baby, you got those blue eyes I sent a message in a bottle to the press It said, "Don't be ashamed or disgusted with yourselves Don't be ashamed or disgusted with yourselves Don't be ashamed or disgusted with yourselves" "I've thumbed through the books on your shelves I've thumbed through the books on your shelves I've thumbed through the books on your shelves I've thumbed through the books on your shelves" Blue eyes

Soldier, you got to get out more There is life after property Everyone has got a finder's fee Find something difficult to do and do it Write your english music Write your english music Write your english music Run free She tasted of the Christmas wines and said "So many things have run through me. I know the altar boys, they just wanna do me and that's fine. You got to have faith. Yeah, you got to have it." Once again, it's a quarter-to-three by Ambleside-by-the-Sea And something's telling you boy, it's time to take sides And something's telling you boy, it's time to take sides And something's telling you boy, it's time to take sides And write your English Music Though you know it will come to no good When brilliance has a taste for suffering And you're softer than the western world