Name: A Pilot's Lament
Duration: P00H06M09S
Description: This was conceived as the Iron Maiden epic of the record. Based on "An Irish Airmen Foresees his Death" by W.B. Yeats. I removed the bitterness of the Irish pilot being forced to serve in the RAF (see the intro lyrics) and instead visualized a fighter pilot that only lives in the moment and feels there is no past or future, just the impulse to fly.

A Pilot's Lament

from Millions of the Mouthless Dead by Vallhünd

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This was conceived as the Iron Maiden epic of the record. Based on "An Irish Airmen Foresees his Death" by W.B. Yeats. I removed the bitterness of the Irish pilot being forced to serve in the RAF (see the intro lyrics) and instead visualized a fighter pilot that only lives in the moment and feels there is no past or future, just the impulse to fly.

lyrics

I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those I fight I do not hate,
Those I guard I do not love.

I have no country, I have no home
I left my family to go to war
My likely end will bring them no loss
Or leave them better than before.

No law or duty, made me fight.
No public men, no cheering crowds.
A lonely impulse to take flight.
Drives me to war up in the clouds.

I have sat in a crystal space.
Like an eagle, high above the earth.
Gazing down on man’s creations.
Judging them for all their worth.

Chorus
The years to come, are a waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind.
In balance with this life is death.

I leave the ground, grey and soaking.
I struggle through the murky white.
The clouds close in, I feel that I’m choking.
And then explode into a land of light

I tumble from the sky, my engines screaming.
I watch the earth come tumbling about.
The fields spread out, the ground rises to greet me.
No one to hear my final shout

Outro
The years to come, are waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind.
In balance with this life is death.
But in the sky, I was alive

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from Millions of the Mouthless Dead, released February 8, 2021

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Vallhund Minnesota

Vallhünd makes metal music. Death, thrash, melodic? Forget the sub genres, just metal. Influences are proudly displayed and nothing should be taken (too) seriously.

Vallhünd is Aaron Ashley, originally from the Duluth, MN music scene. Currently in a basement in the Twin Cities south metro. ... more