Prologue
When I reminisce about all those years, I see many things. Life and death
Strung together like the mountains and valleys in which we lived. There was
Wealth and opulence, but also tribulation and loss. There was laughter and
Song, and there was also tears
But even more than tears, blood was shed. And so many were left to their
Unadorned graves, unburied. But to us, death was but another journey. And
Close by the darkness through which we strode, there was also light. The
Light of life and immortality
And after all, when I reminisce about those years, I mostly remember our
Songs. We sang... as if to drown out the sound of clashing swords, as if
The battle cries fell silent... because war had lost its meaning
Helvetios
Bodiacos
Sunartiu
Segos brigos
Anauos
From Antumnos the life-giving winds
Fanned the flames into a blaze
The awen of the mighty
By the force of Sucellus' sledge
By every impact of Ogmios' club
With Bricta's invincible epiphany
A tribe arose
A tribe broke forth
Cause we're born free
Cause we're born wild
Cause we are indomitable and bold
Cause we are fire (brave)
Cause we are wave (strong)
Cause we are rock (tribe)
We are one - we are helvetios
The ears tethered to the divine tongue
Following the ancient wise
As laughter fills antumnos
Drinking from the cup of life
The well that's never running dry
We wandered into the light of day
Again Taranis' enthean wheel revolved
From Antumnos life was upheaved
By the force of Succellus sledge
By every impact of Ogmios' club
With Bricta's invincible epiphany
A tribe arose
A tribe broke forth
A tribe Helvetios
A tribe Bodiacos
Cause we're born free
Cause we're born wild
Cause we are indomitable and bold
Cause we are fire
Cause we are wave
Cause we are rock
We're one - we are Helvetios
Cause we're born free
Cause we're born wild
Cause we are indomitable and bold
Cause we are brave
Cause we are strong
Cause we are tribe
We're one - we are Helvetios
Luxtos
At the rise of a new dawn
Rose the children of the sun
To inhabit a kingdom
Augustly crowned in rock mass vast
All lakes are sanctuaries
Like covert nemetons
All forests are hallowed
Blest groves of an invictus tribe
Nertom woloutom que (We are strong and we are rich)
Etsi snis karamos-e (And we gladly are)
Nertom woloutom que (We are strong and we are rich)
Etsi snis karamos-e (And we gladly are)
Nertom woloutom que etsi snis (We are strong and we are rich)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis (We are free, that's what we are)
Nertom woloutom que etsi snis (We are strong and we are rich)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis (We are free, that's what we are)
Widomor-e Karamos-e (We know it and we love to know it)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis andometi (We are free and we are untamed)
Nertom woloutom que etsi snis (We are strong and we are rich)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis (We are free, that's what we are)
A kingly tribe sublime
Arose in its golden time
In a prosperous era
The age primordial reign
A horde of untameables
Invincible armada
A dashing bold host
Of venturous fearnaughts
Nertom woloutom que (We are strong and we are rich)
Etsi snis karamos-e (And we gladly are)
Nertom woloutom que (We are strong and we are rich)
Etsi snis karamos-e (And we gladly are)
Nertom woloutom que etsi snis (We are strong and we are rich)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis (We are free, that's what we are)
Nertom woloutom que etsi snis (We are strong and we are rich)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis (We are free, that's what we are)
Widomor-e Karamos-e (We know it and we love to know it)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis andometi (We are free and we are untamed)
Nertom woloutom que etsi snis (We are strong and we are rich)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis (We are free, that's what we are)
Nertom woloutom que (We are strong and we are rich)
Etsi snis karamos-e (And we gladly are)
Nertom woloutom que (We are strong and we are rich)
Etsi snis karamos-e (And we gladly are)
Nertom woloutom que etsi snis (We are strong and we are rich)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis (We are free, that's what we are)
Nertom woloutom que etsi snis (We are strong and we are rich)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis (We are free, that's what we are)
Widomor-e Karamos-e (We know it and we love to know it)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis andometi (We are free and we are untamed)
Nertom woloutom que etsi snis (We are strong and we are rich)
Emmos snis riyi emmos snis (We are free, that's what we are)
Home
In these vigilant times I daydream - an innocuous crime
My motionless stance - in my mind, I wander the land
A bleak and dismal trance
Constrained, unsafe, left in shame
And now I can see my town is painted red
Here forever I'll be where once my tears were shed
On that day, in our place I recall the smell of the rain
And I'd protect you from them if you want me to take
Take you there again
Good night my love, let me watch, you sleep from here or above
Words like these won't leave this place
Be haunted by our trace, the trace of our...
HOME
The home they want call their own
But for the air that I breathe, the dreams are divine
The memories I'll bring to
A place far from home
The home they want to call province of Rome
I'm trapped without guards, within a state I can't grasp
But we're still free
I am waiting for the clouds to part, all in vain
Nature forsaken
Once admired by us all, does it know we're scared
Scared to move, scared to wake, scared just to be who we were
What matters is just you and me and the path that leads us...
HOME
The home they want call their own
But for the air that I breathe, the dreams are divine
The memories I'll bring to
A place far from home
The home they want to call province of Rome
I'm trapped without guards, within a state I can't grasp
But we are still free
Encircled by fiends, the pressure deepens
Dazed by illusions, my reason weakens
But I won't let you fall into deep forlornness
I won't let you ponder the why in distress
A mechanical smile as I lift my face towards the sun
And return to denial
I weep as I kiss the ground, the trees that I'll soon miss
The songs we sang will ring out, the memories will resound
HOME
The home they want call their own
But for the air that I breathe, the dreams are divine
The memories I'll bring to
A place far from home
The home they want to call province of Rome
I'm trapped without guards, within a state I can't grasp
But we are still free
Santonian Shores
It has been decided, we'll set forth on this journey
We packed the wagons
Everything arranged, there is no turning back
The time has come
All too soon
A stab all through my heart
The afterglow
Glimmered on the roof of our homestead
We bode the nightfall at hand
Belive set out into the dark
In this night the fires roared
As fields were set ablaze
It rained ash from the sky
In a flaring hiss at night
Forward the land we knew
Off to far and distant shores
A safe haven
Off to these Santonian Shores
At the set of the sun
As mist billowed over the land
We got under way
Wandering, towards our hopes
I bode awhile and looked back
Gaued into the sea of flames
Laying waste what we called home
I won't see this place again
A cortege as far as the eye can see
A vast migrant parade
The glow of a distant dream
The awakening came nigh
Under a starlit sky
Dreams within our hearts
Step by step we marched
Away into the night
Forward the land we knew
Off to far and distant shores
A safe haven
Off to these Santonian Shores
Scorched Earth
Nũ noxs ponc ro-duaxse
Noxs uedacã atro-brogi
Ðerã loucint' in nemisi
Niũla noxtos crouo-samali
Roudi loucint' are tanisa belia
Nũ tegisa ne seiou' bisionti
Magisa ansra nũ loscenti
Noxs nũ uer ni ateðði
Baregon nouion duaxsati
Dunon eðði aidulegos
Trebã ansrã nũ eðði onnas
Druco-critus me gabiti
Rac' senoxs auagomos
Aue, aue, inte noxtin
Meet The Enemy
There at these ominous shores of river Saone
There at these shores the die has been cast
Valour and honour were stripped off their meaning
We will not know innocence again
At sombre nightfall the defenceless were bestially run down
Saone stained with helvetic blood
You will not shake hands with arrant beliers
You'd rather die than turn into minions
Freedom was our highest good
We ventured our lives
Meet the liar
This dead black night
Our destiny revealed
Meet the enemy
It will... never be the same
There at these portentous shores of river Saone
There at these shores the die has been cast
We saw the true face of the Roman ravener
The gorgoneion on the cuirass appeared
It was like playing ludus latrunculorum
The pieces were made of flesh and of blood
Valour and honour bereft of their meaning
The blood on your hands will forever stay
Freedom was our highest good
We ventured our lives
Meet the liar
This dead black night
Our destiny revealed
Meet the enemy
It will... never be the same
It's not us to go under the yoke
Of that fact the Roman people are witness
We will not bow (meet the liar)
Meet the enemy
Meet the liar
Meet the enemy
Neverland
Behold this Proud
Crestfallen Parade
Dead Bodies towered up like this dividing Rampart
The Hopes of yesterday forgotten and interred
Burnt to the Ground
Lacerate my Neverland blood
My Otherworld elapsed
My silver Lining
Another false Dawn collapsed
A Glimpse of our safe Home
Perished in Bibracte
Another Hope dearly prayed
When we all were betrayed
The End of our Exodus
Behold this egregious Mockery
We refused to bow down
Our own goddamn Blood was the Price we had to pay
Santones' Land we never got to see
Lacerate my Neverland blood
My Otherworld elapsed
My silver Lining
Another false Dawn collapsed
A Glimpse of our safe Home
Perished in Bibracte
Another Hope dearly prayed
When we all were betrayed
The End of our Exodus
When the Fiends come marching in...
Lacerate my Neverland blood
My Otherworld elapsed
My hopes were dead
Another false Dawn collapsed
A Glimpse of our safe Home
Perished in Bibracte
Another Hope dearly prayed
When we all were betrayed
The End of our Exodus
When the Fiends come marching in...
When the Fiends come marching in...
A Rose For Epona
[Verse 1]
Do you feel the thorns?
Do you see the tears?
Do you see the bloodshed in this fell war?
Have you forsaken us?
Have you forgotten our faithful men calling your name?
While I stand before you
While we perish
While I lay down a crimson rose
While holding hands
Are forced apart
While hopes bog like condemned men
[Pre-Chorus]
Were you there?
[Chorus]
The sky is falling on me
As your hand's turning old and weak
I'm giving myself up to thee
A futile sacrifice gone sere
(falling on me)
[Verse 2]
In your nemeton
These grey stone walls
Are cold and silent
As the fallen
Mother gone deaf
Mistress of shattered hopes
And forever broken dreams
[Pre-Chorus]
Were you there?
[Chorus]
The sky is falling on me
As your hand's turning old and weak
I'm giving myself up to thee
A futile sacrifice gone sere
[Pre-Chorus]
Were you there?
[Bridge]
Epo, Epo why hast thou forsaken me?
Together we go unsung
Into thy hand, I commend my spirit
Together we go down with our people
[Pre-Chorus]
Were you there? Were you there?
[Chorus]
The sky is falling on me
As your hand's turning old and weak
I'm giving myself up to thee
A futile sacrifice gone sere
Falling on me
Havoc
I wonder what it's like to attack at night
And mow down the defenceless
Invasions and raids just called
Fucking, punitive Expeditions
Like a wildfire
Devastation spreads
Across all Gallia
From Helvetia to Eburonia
The Ravener's insatiate
Havoc
Think of yesterday
Ruin
A mass illusion! How could it come this far?
Narbonensis was not enough
The Empire needed more
From Aremorica to Carnutia
Plagued and war-ridden Land
Wars inflicted on free Gallia
An organised downfall
A black cloud of Imperial
Rapacity unleashed
"Gallia est pacata!"
Havoc
Think of yesterday
Ruin
A mass illusion! How could it come this far?
Imperial needs are met
At the bloody cost of free Tribes
Invasion, raid and war atrocity
In the name of SPQR
Havoc
Think of yesterday
Ruin
A mass illusion! How could it come this far?
The Uprising
Our estates are under fire
Our villagers fall prey to pillage
How can we stay on the sideline
How long will we take this lying down?
Refuse to quell the anger
Time has come to take up arms again
The last call to rise up
Bestir
This is the flash of our last hope
Will you ally with us?
Wake up - open your eyes
Reach out
And seize this golden venture
We've lost ourselves in strife
While the raptor unopposedly
Claws at Gallia's free lands
We have to call a halt this
Unite the tribes and rise
Take a look around yourself
And see this time is ours
The last call to rise up
Our lands are under fire
Our villagers fall prey to pillage
How can we stay on the sideline
How long will we take this lying down?
It is time to join forces
Let the eagle's beak burst on our shields
Unite! This is Gallia uprising!
Bestir
This is the flash of our last hope
Will you ally with us?
Wake up - open your eyes
Reach out
And seize this golden venture
Bestir
This is the flash of our last hope
Will you ally with us?
Wake up - open your eyes
Reach out
And seize this golden venture
Hope
Instrumental
The Siege
Scorched earth we left
A barren land of ash
Our fatherland laid waste
Be the void our fucking monument
At a leaden dawn
At this ominous morn
Pila loomed on the horizon
Talons of the wolverine
Exanimate legions formed
At the very gates of Avaricum
Believed invulnerable
This calling wall
But straight out of nowhere
Before our eyes this godsdawn bane arose
Thus Avaricum burns
Under a dead sky
Avaricum drowns
In blood and demise
Siege towers emerged
Protruding from the ground
Standing out against the threatening sky
As if to mock all valiantness
Face to face with an eye-leveled enemy
Serried roman ranks
Embattled upon our hold
Cut off and trapped inside
As the carnage was at hand
As the creak of the winches extolled our doom
The slaughter befell Avaricum
Dead suffused the oppidum
Left to pillage, sack and rape
Avaricum the brave became Avaricum the grave
Thus Avaricum burns
Under a dead sky
Avaricum drowns
In blood and demise
Alesia
The grass was as green as it always was that sinister day
The blackbird sang their songs as they always did that black-letter day
The day we passed the great gate for the very last time
I did not look back, I knew we'd stay
I knew they would not let us go leave the death strip
I saw the gleam in their eyes of fear and enslavement
The crushing weight
Beloved ground take me home
Alesia, Alisanos
Wake me when I'm gone
Lanotouta, eternity
Proclaim our barren sacrifice
On that ground we cherished life
And embraced death
As the children's cries trailed off
Sob yielded deathly hush
Alesia, Alisanos
Wake me when I'm gone
Lanotouta, eternity
Proclaim our barren sacrifice
[Solo]
The grass was as green as it always was that sinister day
As we walked the alleys like thousand times before
I knew we'd stay
Alesia, Alisanos
Wake me when I'm gone
Lanotouta, eternity
Proclaim my barren sacrifice
Outside Alesia
We offered a living sacrifice
Outside the doors of Alesia
Where our tears run dry
Tullianum
And so it all ends
With just a noose
Fly raven, fly
Uxellodunon
This is the final resistance
This was the final revolt
In desperate hope
With tear-dimmed eyes
With wrath-torn minds
We took up arms one more time
Uxellodunon
Oh the last stand
The freedom manifesto
We will never forget
The things we've seen
The deaths we died
The tears we cried
We will never regret
We defied
We will raise our arm stubs in pride
We will never perish
This is the final resistance
This was the final revolt
Our cut off hands
Proclaimed grandeur
Land can be taken but
Dignity's impregnable
Uxellodunon
Fortress of free men
Shining beacon of indomitability
We will never forget
The things we've seen
The deaths we died
The tears we cried
We will never regret
We defied
We will raise our arm stubs in pride
We will never perish
Bearing witness of freedom
Bearing witness of our names
Cause we will never...
Out from the ashes
Out from the graves
The offspring of Antumnos
Will arise to life again
Uxellodunon
Oh the last stand the freedom manifesto
We will never forget
The things we've seen
The deaths we died
The tears we cried
We will never regret
We defied
We will raise our arm stubs in pride
We will never perish
Epilogue
When I reminisce about all those years of tribulation, I mostly remember
Our songs. We died, and our blood seeped away on the battlefields; but our
Songs survived, together with those of us that returned. And as they too
Will die one day, our songs will live on, and will be sung by our children
And by our children's children. This is how we will be remembered. This is
Who we were
Helvetios