Waiting in a line ...the blood upon your steel ...Beneath the metal sky ...ke thunder from the sky ...With dreams to be a king ...rst, what should be a man ...With a life that is a lie ...And in a final hour ...ke thunder from the sky ... my way will die by steel

Hands like steel ...From a lifetime spent in t...And they'd dance to a Dixie lullaby ...Picture of love beneath the southern sky ...Oh my, what a beautiful life ...Just like a Dixie lullaby ...In a hand me down Chevro... them in my arms to a simple beat ...And I'd sing them a Dixie lullaby ...Oh my, what a beautiful life ...Just like a Dixie lullaby ...My father was a mountain of a man ...To a man we thought woul...And I sang him a Dixie lullaby ...Oh my, what a beautiful life ...Just like a Dixie lullaby ...Oh my, what a beautiful life ...Just like a Dixie lullaby

Under the endless sky ...Beneath a million stars ...ithin the course of a lifetime ...I'm not made of steel ...I'm not made of steel ...I'm not made of steel ...I'm only a man ...I'm not made of steel ...'ve learned is just a lie ...And there's a price to be paid fo...I'm only a man ...I'm not made of steel ...I'm only a man

witches Streak the sky ...Trapped without a plea ...Locked in a pillory ...But no one hears a sound ...Solid steel visor ...The skull beneath the skin ...The skull beneath the skin

witches Streak the sky...Trapped without a plea...Locked in a pillory...But no one hears a sound...Solid steel visor...The skull beneath the skin...The skull beneath the skin

witches Streak the sky...Trapped without a plea...Locked in a pillory...But no one hears a sound...Solid steel visor...The skull beneath the skin...The skull beneath the skin

Hot steel prods into your eye...Military machines, steel warped with hate. ...n is killed, behind a blackened sky. ...The son is killed, a father watches him ...Crushed beneath the wheels of war.

e the fortress like a coruscating sea, painting the stygian heavens the colour of flame. And the high summer's night passed swiftly. At length, the dawn approached tentatively, and with the first signs of the newborn sun etching its promise upon the skies, the martial preparations commenced in earnest. A brief and perfunctory exchange between the Imperial Herald and the fortification's Watch Commander held no surprises, and the Emperor's banner was duly driven into the seared earth before Gul-Kothoth with a chilling finality. Vast siege engines and powerful ballistae were hauled inexorably into position, alongside a battery of katapelte and petrobolos. The one hundred thousand strong Imperial Frontier Army, having planted their regimental blazons into the arid soil, waited with a disciplined patience born of never having met defeat in pitched battle or siege, the dreaded Imperial War-Leopards straining noisily against their iron-link leashes to the rear of the cohorts of conscripts and auxillieries. The pitiless Iron Phalanx and their Lord Militant Commander had assumed position at the head of the army's Alpha Wing, polished swords, spears and poll-axes reflecting the glow from the myriad torches and braziers which still burned about the Imperial Host. And behind them were drawn up the legendary Legion of the Ebon Tiger, Pride of the Emperor, the infantry and cavalry famed throughout the Great Northern Continent, personal regiment of the feared general Baalthus Vane. True to their martial reputation, the six thousand strong Legion were inscrutible in their jet black armour, their sable banner billowing in the chill breeze which skittered over the plain. And finally, astride his azure-shaffroned warhorse and surrounded by his elite guard, the silvern-armoured Emperor Koord himself studied the precipitious gates with a disdainful scrutiny. At the Emperor's right hand was the renowned Swordmaster of Kyrman'ku, an eastern bladesman of preternatural skill and the most revered and expensive mercenary in the Imperium. At his left, the infamous Ogre-Mage of the Black Lake brooded silently, swathed in a stygian cloak and f...ne of the many foes a general must face u...lf! In the hands of a skilled thaumaturgist, it is said that the Crown may be used as a weapon of unparalle... the Trinity is but a myth! No antiquated trinket weilded by a religious fanatic will prevail against the Legion, sire. Our steel is proof against su...t enough to prepare a contingency should ...And so it was that a terrible and inestimable carnage was unleashed upon the field of battle. Colossal stones, firebrands and howling iron-tipped missiles rained pitilessly down upon the hero-hewn walls of Gul-Kothoth. Vast and serpentine cracks appeared in the ancient cyclopean edifice, and hundreds of warriors, both attackers and defenders, perished in the fray, either crushed beneath the ceaselessly ass...ers while I prepare a reception worthy of...d at the command of a decurion, a volley of armour-piercing shafts screamed skywards to rain down mercilessly upon the foe. And even as this transpired, the Emperor's Prime Sorcerer, emissary of the Imperial Court and master of those arts which speak to man in narcotic dreams from the darkest and most silent places, summoned forth that black potency which lay entwined in stygian tendrils within his mind... an ireful power born of they who writhed upon the shores of Pangaea before man's progenitors ever erected their lofty spires to the restless skies. And yet Vyrgothia's Master Wizard, unrivalled Arch-Mage and adept of that lost Eastern order who journey beyond the boundaries of time and space upon those nebulous wings born of the sacred Azure Lotus, rose to meet this power which lapped at the periphery of his mind like a midnight tide, and ...h dusk painting the sky a deep crimson exceed...Like the prow of a blood-hungry vessel of war rending the waves of a midnight sea, a luminescent blade of shrieking cerulean light lanced from the legendary black circlet locked tight within the gnarled hand of the Master Wizard, and clove mercilessly into the glorious ranks of the Imperium. And all who were touched by this ruinous arc of coruscating radiance knew no more... Men and beasts reduced to blackened husks, charred shells of smouldering ash, lifeless effigies which toppled to the seared earth to be dissipated by the whispering breath of the wind. Again and again the ravaging radiance smote the ranks of the Empire, leaving a noisome charnel-pit of nightmare in its crackling wake. The forces of the Imperium were plunged into a howling vortex of disarray, and, faced with the unthinkable prospect of defeat, the unprecedented first routing of the Emperor's glorious army began to become a grim reality. Yet f...erium! 'Tis true... steel is no use against this ignoble magical trickery! But if our souls are bound for the Pit this day, we'll damn well take a few of these bastar...r fearsome words in a tongue which was ancient ere the gleaming stars shifted upon the fathomless countenance of the distant heavens, words which in truth were not words, but rather a resonant key which would aspire to unlock a dire power which had reposed shackled since the fall of the legendary Shadow King himself, whose ebon circlet's power they even now sought to thwart. The incantation they gave voice to in the midst of that sanguineous turmoil which engulfed them was not so much heard by those within earshot as perceived, sensed as a vague disturbance in the fabric of reality, as fuliginous ripples on the surface of a hitherto still and placid pool, growing ever larger and more far reaching; an unnerving and unnamable sense of change which insinuated itself into the mind of the listener and suggested with a cold and disturbing quasi-certainty that something of preternaturally ineffable magnitude was transpiring, as surely as a festering and gangrenous corpse would split to spill its noisome gore. And as that maddeningly implacable incantation reached its resounding climax, a momentary silence e...AN / ROBERTS, BYRON A.

all that steam and steel ...There's a little bit of blood...et thread stretched beneath the gathering dark ...they have made this a world full of wars ...Cause I can see a people dispossessed...mes by the greed of a nation ...nst the blue of the sky

Taking a ride to another cli...Watching a film with a talking dog...ving the world down beneath the clouds...Ache in my leg from a broken seat...ipping the meal for a G&T...Up in the sky on a lunar bound...Steel guitar and the mell