Skyclad are a British United Kingdom heavy metal band with heavy folk Traditional music influences in their music. They are considered one of the pioneers of folk metal. The etymology behind the term "skyclad" comes from a pagan/wiccan wicca term for ritual nudity, in which rituals are performed with the participants metaphorically clad only by the sky, as a sign of equality. The name alludes both to the bands' religious leanings and... [read more] - A Badtime Story
Look what I got for Valentine's Day:Lady Luck came along, took my dreams away,And the tears hurt more than a broken nose -I bled from the thorns of a barbed-wire rose.I know that I'm supposed to prayThanking God for...
- Our Dying Island
I woke from my daydream--discovered my nightmare was real,At the altar of progress to gods of ambition we kneel,Our database deities--they cannot save us,Microchip miracles only enslave us.The high priests of high...
- Skyclad
I'll sing to you of days departed,Times when men proud and stouthearted carved their names on history's bloodypage,The corpse of chivalry long deadIs turning in his loamy bed indignant at your new 'enlightened'...
- Moongleam And Meadowsweet
See her face shine in the moonlight--Soft as silk and white as cream,Silently I watch her slumber--gently kiss her cheek,Then I lay my weary head beside hers--close my eyes and dream.In the morning she'll awake--Cast...
- The Sky Beneath My Feet
O come ye young of Hamlyn--you who know my tune so well,Where it beckons you must follow--be it Heaven (be it Hell).Forget your mothers grieving as I pipe you down the street,With a shilling in my pocket--and the sky...
- Terminus
[Intro:] 'Megeddo's Gateway.'Hunter of the silent darkness--Mighty steel leviathan,Rise from your nocturnal vigil--'Davey Jones' the time has come.Send spitting fires and roaring thunder--instigate Poseidon's...
- Trance Dance (A Dreamtime Walkabout)
Where the past meets the present we walk hand in hand,Barefoot and ***--but kings of our land,The souls of my forefathers course through my veins as I watch thesun sink 'neath these ancestral plains.Outcast in the...
- The Widdershins Jig
A wise man's son and Wednesday's child in each other found a friend,And searched together for the treasure hiding at the rainbow's end.To wise man's son and Wednesday's child all is white that is not black,They dance...
- The Cradle Will Fall
- A Minute's Piece
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- Intro: Pagan Man
I am the Pagan Man--I speak for all my kind,When I criticise your point of view--your hollow state of mind.You say that I'm an animal--well this at least is true,I'm a thinking breathing human being--what the hell are...
- Inequality Street
Life's really a chocolate box -some do without - others have plenty.It sticks in my throat - my stomach's in knots,while your box is so full - mine's perpetually empty.From the cradle to the grave,point your ladle to...
- The Sinful Ensemble
Are you ready...Are you ready for The Sinful Ensemble?Good clean fun - just a bit a rough and tumble.Dead dictators out on a "labs night".Then pints later you'll see a flashing blue light.Are you ready for The Sinful...
- The Wrong Song
Another bad break - burst another bubbleAnother lost cause - here's another troubleAnother heart ache - one more chance goneAnother lost chord in yet another wrong song.Sometimes I feel like I'm standing on a hillside...
- Snake Charming
You'll meet his kind in the strangest of places,great what you find if you turn enough stones.Legerdmain eyes wear the sweetest of faces -you're quick to invite into your hearts and homes.But the serpent and worms are...
- I Dubious
I am the king of all that I surveybeware my son it could be yours one day.Hier transparent to a dynasty -dog - emperor of woe and misery.It sent me mad but now it makes me furiousI'm shadowed by a doubt - I...
- Sabre Dance
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- Penny Dreadful
Forgive me if I'm out of order -this new "music" has no soul.It may be good for making money,(sadly that is not my goal).Integrity and honesty are words that you don't understand,but you're the best - it says so in...
- Science Never Sleeps
Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,and lab-coats draped over big black lies.They cover their stupidity by calling it "stupology",rearrange your world...
- Quantity Time
Yet another sluggard hour stumbles past,it's no wonder life looks better through the bottom of a glass.These bitter litanies you keep repeating,are verbal fingers down my mental blackboard screeching.Each moment in...
- No Deposit, No Return
I remember my grandmother sat with her radio,tea cup and walking stick set by her side.As her old fingers reached out to turn up the volume,I learnt what it meant to be bursting with pride.She told me some tales of...
- History Lessons
Look what you get for following leaders,who lead from the rear - where are they now?Look what you get for following leaders,who lead from the rear - where are they...Where are they now?What did we learn in history...
- My Mother In Darkness
Dance with the lilies in the shadows of the valley -my lily of the valley of the shadow of death.Her velvet shadow in the rain, disturb the stillness of the hour.Each crimson kiss a tender pain, like plucking petals...
- The Spiral Starecase
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- The Silver Cloud's Dark Lining
Sailing of the century - a human life raft floatingthe jaws of the void approaching - growing closer by the hourPlayed lottery with destiny - could not believe you'd loseCollect your one-way ticket for "the Good Ship...
- No Strings Attached
Now the final curtain's fallen,for no show goes on forever,if the world's a stage - mine's empty.whilst upon it you'll tread never.As the instruments lie silent in their coffins made of wood,i rest assured they'd say...
- Little Miss Take
Thought I'd got it right - for once I'd sought and found perfection.when you said "I love you you addressed your own reflection.I'd prayed up to the heavens for a goddess of desire,the best they had on offer was one...
- Vintage Whine
I'll paly Bacchus for the evening,pray, be seated, take your placesShould my manna seem displeasing,offend your airs and graces,I've a list long as your arm,(The connoisseur's selection)such bitter whines -a quaff of...
- Cancer Of The Heart
There's a simple diagnosis for this vicious symbiosisfeel the growth of rogue psychosiswe are the cause - we are the cureAcross each continent and nationspread without discrimination,we refuse our medication - yet...
- A Well Beside The River
A song i dedicate unto those who share my needto give their all - and should they fall strive on til they succeed.though my belly aches with hunger - weary limbs tremble and shiveri'd rather go where waters flow - no...
- Bury Me
You came, you saw, you conquered as a woman of your word.so to say farewell like Judas is a thing i find absurd.You shook my world - (you sucked me in then spat me out in bubbles),the effects of your affections stay...
- On With Their Heads!
Here's just a few of the changes I'll makewhen mankind appoints me king of Planet EarthSo pass me my crown (my scepter and gown)Hear the first proclamation of Martin the ILeaders who lied so that innocents...
- Something To Cling To
- Salt On The Earth (Another Man's Poison)
Out of the East a prince shall riseTo summon fire from the skies.I'm lord of this wasteland - where my word is lawMy bedfellows pestilence, famine and warTurn children to orphans - make wives into widowsThen laugh at...
- The Declaration Of Indifference
There's a "Fat Cat" sitting in a CaddilacRiding ten feet off the floorWho says "I used to do a little, but I couldn't get enoughAnd so a little got more and more."Well I've nothing to show for all these years -But it...
- Karmageddon (The Suffering Silence)
Awake at the "Souls Midnight" I seek that I may findAn amicable separation from this state of mindMy sins so unoriginal they cannot be forgivenAn overwhelming sense of doubt from me all hope has driven.Ships at night...
- Ring Stone Round
An apple in the eye of the storm that's comingWhen winds of change sweep 'cross the landThese "old grey men" have braved the weatherWatched kingdoms fall while they still stand.Walk with me down moonlit...
- R'Vannith
I still hear the screams of my lover torn from meStill taste the salt of her tears on my faceAs they left me for dying my shattered corpse writhedOn a pyre of anger - I choked on the stench of disgrace.Flint and bone...
- Men Of Straw
I pray that soon the blessed meek their world shall inheritWhen all of these bastards are judged by their meritsAnd called to account for the acts they've commitedThe jury their victims - no sins are omitted.I'd...
- A Broken Promised Land
See the red "messiah" high upon a soap-box pulpitAgitating his apostles with the gospels in his handWhile apprentice hitlers gather down in inner city subwaysTo immortalise their ignorance with aerosol spray cans.Life...
- Spinning Jenny
She came down from the Western Hills when we were not preparedI turned deaf ears to words of warning now I'm running scared.Casting caution to the wind now that the cat's awayI say my grace - fill my face (then for...
- Alone In Death's Shadow
Carnal gladiators lie restless awaiting the dawnSlaves to their passion - so eager its will to performThey wrestle the "Double Backed Beast" face their foe hand to handThe arena was life but alone in deaths shadow...
- The Thread Of Evermore
Harbringer of death and slaughter -(next time round you'll be the slain)Refuse the dying man your water -(thirst when you come back again).Don't spare the rod don't spoil the child -(I hope you like to take a...
- My *** I
I wish that you could know one day the secrets I've been keeping,Of the demons I have locked away - they prowl a one track mind.If you had thought this tongue in cheek was just reserved for speakingone hour at my...
- A Clown Of Thorns
Walking my personal Calvary mile to a do-it-yourself crucifixion,It's a kingdom of clowns wearing martyrdom's frown -I must fight for my hammer and nails,We're an endless procession of lost, dispossessed unbelievers...
- Dead Angels On Ice
Mother I'm so sorry for this thing I've gone and done,But surely you'll forgive me - after all I am your son.Live to race - thrill of the chase to me was all that mattered,As we crash I hit the dash - my baby face is...
- Worn Out Sole To Heel
It's a mountain that we all must climb,In giant leaps or one step at a time.I saw a fat, old money lender - shoes of silk and ermine,Laughing as they stambled on blistered feet rough shod.He never helped the poor and...
- Building A Ruin
My life is a sentence that carries no pardon,I can't put you out of my misery now,So stunned by beauty of this madhouse garden -I've taken my chances (then lost them somehow).This body's a temple - a shoddy...
- Helium
Pray for my poor melancholy soul,I've cried so many tears inside -My head's a goldfish bowl.A mood so deep - so far above you all,With no one there to catch me if i fall.This is your man in the street reporting,And so...
- Eirenarch
You say i'm a free man,But what does that mean to a social security number?A grey suit as sharp as a new guillotine,Bought and paid for while drugging us underTell me what use is a citizens charter -When blood is the...
- Catherine At The Wheel
Her face caught in the headlamp glare,There waiting for a ride.Stood all alone - so far from home,He beckons her inside.A smile that has two meanings -slips his fat hand to her knee,But swiftly learns how quick to...
- Fainting By Numbers
Number One - the only number I can really trust,Dual faceted - these people that I talk to when I must.In triplicate my body hangs - left drying in the sun,Four horses at the starting gate - their riders waiting on my...
- Troublesometimes
High above the sleeping city streets where we've all grownA silent evil Slithers through the dawn.Blissful in our ignorance - God how could we have knownToday would be the day we learn to mourn?The Shades of old...
- Isle Of Jura
All around me strangers scurry -In a crowd but all alone.Got to hurry - pack my worries,Feel the arms that I call home.I am lonely - I am lost,Inside my private holocaust.[Chorus:]O' steel angel please carry me -Fly...
- Single Phial
I have walked the earth so many times before your birth,Today is only yesterday's tomorrow.And as a Gardner in Eden it was i who sowed the seed thenI've come to reclaim this life you borrow.Singing 'ring a ring o'...
- Great Blow For A Day Job
Hear my tale - I'm Norman Normal, always humble, mild and meek.In my bank a lowly banker - run-down brach on nowhere street'till one day a stranger called - a fetid bible black he laughed,said "Sonny I don't want your...
- Not The Roman Wall Blues
Hey Mr Auden have you hear the news ?Seems they found a cure for your Roman Wall BluesSays on the tablets that they sent back homeThey got dates, wine and olives direct from RomeThey got baths and medicines I've been...
- Do They Mean Us?
Dance 'round the maypole, rappers and mummersStepping in and out of timeCockneys, Brummies, Tykes and GeordiesPlayers in this pantomimeFrom Notting Hil to Tyneside MelaMarching ghosts of colliery bandsFarmers markets,...
- Another Drinking Song
Where they sit around and get a round in while the getting's good,They'll make the most until the money's gone.They're coming out to celebrate, to sing and dance and to escapeA crazy world where everything seems...
- Hybrid Blues
You think you come so far ?You think you learnt along the way ?You're better off by farThan where you were jus' yesterdayYou say you got your scarsThere's nothing left to sayYou got to look beyondGo make some ripples...
- Lightening The Load
Now 'Man is born to troubleSure as sparks to Heaven fly.'So said the man sat all aloneIn the corner of my eye.I said, 'Why the long face, why so sad?Things cannot be so bad!'He said, 'My aching bones tell of trouble...
- A Good Day To Bury Bad News
Wall "the west' wakes up to a terror attackBut they got enough muscle to give it right backNow the warmongers are happy they know that they can't loseThey picked a good day for to bury the bad newsAnd all the latest...
- The Parliament Of Fools
All the seats are taken in the house that makes the rulesAll the seats are taken in 'The parliament of fools'The discontented winter howeld, when I first came up to voteThey swept in on a sea of change, but I'm glad I...
- A Survival Campaign
So we lie and wait for dreaded and demanding downCome wrest us from our safe and sleepy bedsOver by the windown lie the raiment and the weaponsThat we need to take into this world todayArmoured by opinion, with...
- The Song Of No-Involvement
We're building up to nothingCan make it last all dayThey're handing out the pitchforksTo keep the tide at bayThrough time and tide will never waitWe'll stand our ground and celebrate :A song of no involvementA show of...
- Ten Little Kingdoms
'One united kingdom the fancied wouldn't doTo please some grumbling Irishme, they split it into twoTwo little kingdoms, but then the Scots, you seeClaimed their anciant throne and rights, then they were threeThree...
- Like...A Ballad For The Disenchanted
Like the promise of a grey day dawningLike all the dreams I've never hadLike I'm working as the beast of burdenJust like Sisyphus I know where I standLike I need another rude awakeningWith all your caterwauling in my...
- The Great Brain Robbery
Why do you still refuse to see,this vast global conspiracy,that's infiltrating lives and homes?(A race replaced by servile drones).Chips are down and stakes are high,milk-shake minds are sucked bone dry.If their...
- The Disenchanted Forest
[The Farm Hand's Ghost:]"My kin and I had laboured hardto reap the yearly harvest.Lain weary on our gathered sheaves wecracked a vat of ale. Poured a toast;Began to boast of who could sup the hardest.Slumped in...
- You Lost My Memory
Unstoppable force and immovable object,repel one another when by chance colliding.The Brownian-Motion within this love potion,ensures our opinions are always dividing.I am from Mars my dear;you hail from Venus.A...
- Think Back And Lie Of England
(It's a load of old John Bull)Cruel Britannia ruled the waves, Empireoiled by toiling slaves. White flag stainedSt.George Cross red, and blues sung forthe countless deadGod save brave Johnny Company,stiff-upper-lipped...
- Polkageist!
One day whilst out exploring in somefar-flung foreign corner, I took respitefrom my journey to admire the local fauna.When from the twilight distance a peel ofbells and laughter, set my heart-stringsfluttering like...
- Swords Of A Thousand Men
Deep in the castle and back from the warBack with milady and the fires burnt tallHurrah went the men down belowAll outside was the rain and snowHear their shouts, hear their roarsThey've probably had a barrel, and...
- When God Logs Off
Insomnia taunts me, I turned on my t.v.;Rapt in the arms of a galaxy spiral.Heard a sea-shell hid it's secret as well.This nexus is key to our planets survival.One precious moment it all became clear;Brain-cloud-haze...
- Any Old Irony?
At the vanguard of a juddering caravan,hurriedly galloping down a dirt-track.Six furtive figures, crooked as Caliban;Smuggling hope to the land of the claque.Weary, hoarse-riders; irksomely blistered.Spent from a...
- Crux Of The Message
[Adapted from the poem "The Storm" by Alison LR Davies]It starts as a faint purr, rippling, beckoning,stealing the evening's baking heat.It steps to the side, foot tapping, hop skipping.Without formation, no sense of...
- Deja-Vu Ain't What It Used To Be
Have you heard the one 'bout when a most unlucky fella,Went visiting a fair-ground for to see a fortune-teller?She said;"Of all the palms I've read - yours is by far the worst.I'm duty-bound to tell you,you've been...
- The Antibody Politic
'Free citizens of Planet Earth';The leptons in some base equation.Bound by swaddling-chains from birth,unto travail and assentation.Given what they're taught to crave;Denied the truths they sorely need.Shown a future...
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