Dusk on the Dnieper 3

Verse 1

I was a boy on the Dnieper's dark bank

Watched as my brothers went north with the clan

The Kievan prince took me in for the fight

Taught me to wield a sword like the sun through the night

They said I'd never walk among men of my own name

A foreigner, an outcast, that's what they claimed

But I earned every scar on this face

Fought battles where the wolves howled at the gates

I built a wall to keep the Pechenegs from the door

And when they came with arrows and fire and war

I stood tall in the smoke, like the tree on the hill

My name became known from the Carpathians still

I never forgot who I was or where I'd been born

But this land took me in when my own family forsworn

So here I'll stay till the river turns to gold

A Viking in Kiev, a story yet untold

Pre-Chorus

Look at me now under this fading blue sky

The same iron running through every fiber of mine

I was just a boy but I never said die

Watch as I stand when all else would be gone by

Chorus

Dusk on the Dnieper, watch how it runs

Golden on the horizon before the battle's done

Dusk on the Dnieper and the river knows my name

I was never just a stranger in this land of flames

Verse 2

Now I'm not alone, I have comrades at my side

We're the Varangians, feared by those who reside

The tagelharpa sings like a battle-axe through steel

When the Pechenegs come we'll send them back to their reveal

I built this city from scratch with every blow

Watch how it rises high as the sun starts to go down low

No one ever said I'd amount to more than what they found

But look at me standing on top of Kiev's mound

The Dnieper River, it keeps its secret till now

Every Viking who sailed here and never made it through

Their souls live on in every stone we raise high

I'll carry their torch until the stars come alive

Pre-Chorus

Look at me now under this fading blue sky

The same iron running through every fiber of mine

I was just a boy but I never said die

Watch as I stand when all else would be gone by

Chorus

Dusk on the Dnieper, watch how it runs

Golden on the horizon before the battle's done

Dusk on the Dnieper and the river knows my name

I was never just a stranger in this land of flames

Bridge

No one remembers where I came from or what I once said

This is all that's left of every dream I used instead

So I'll hold onto this city and let it set me free

Kiev, the Kievan Rus' will know my name for eternity

Chorus

Dusk on the Dnieper, watch how it runs

Golden on the horizon before the battle's done

Dusk on the Dnieper and the river knows my name

I was never just a stranger in this land of flames