[Verse 1]
Blood on the mail and mud on the boots
Smoke in my lungs
iron in my throat
Tiny green faces
screaming in the dark
I’ve seen that cave
in a thousand dreams
Steel in my grip
I don’t shake, I don’t pray
Names in my head
I recite as I slay
If there’s a nest
then I burn out the nest
Only one task
carved into my chest
[Chorus]
I’m the Goblinslayer
step to the gate and I’ll send you down
Every shadow, every lair
I turn your laughter to hollow sound
I don’t need glory
I don’t need a crown
Just one more quest
till the sun goes down
I’m the Goblinslayer
and I don’t back down
[Verse 2]
Girls in the guild hall
laugh over ale
They don’t see visions
that drip from my mail
Under the helmet
my heartbeat’s a war
Counting the cuts
I don’t keep score
Fear is a blade
that I learned how to bend
Mercy’s a word
for someone who pretends
If it breathes hate
then I answer in kind
You call it brutal
I call it aligned
[Bridge]
[Half-time break, eerie choir and piano, then sudden double-time drums]
Candlelight, contract, ink on my hands
One more tunnel
one more stand
If I die nameless
let it be here
Buried in ashes
with nothing but spears
[Chorus]
I’m the Goblinslayer
step to the gate and I’ll send you down
Every shadow, every lair
I turn your laughter to hollow sound
I don’t need glory
I don’t need a crown
Just one more quest
till the sun goes down
I’m the Goblinslayer
and I don’t back down (hey!)