Havoc at the Gates

Chains

at the iron gate

Watching the shadows wait

I curl on the gravel right under the porch

Eyes cut like embers through a midnight scorch My people are sleeping

sound in their beds Unaware of the wolves and the steps overhead

One foot on the threshold,

you made your mistake I will tear you to pieces for their

family's sake

Bare fangs gleaming in the frost and rain

None who enter here walk back again

I am the guardian standing at the stone Cracking the trespasser bone

by bone Nobody crosses where my masters rest I sink my jaws

into a traitor's chest!

(guard the gate!)

Picked up by gentle hands when I was half dead

Fed by their table and sheltered and led Now look at the

stranger approaching the lawn

You will not live to behold the next dawn Claws in the

mud, breath fogging the chill

Love is the reason I hunt and I kill

Bare fangs gleaming in the frost and rain

None who enter here walk back again

I am the guardian standing at the stone

Cracking the trespasser bone by bone

Nobody crosses where my masters rest I sink my jaws into a

traitor's chest!

They think I am just an animal

tied to a post

Until they stand face to face

with a ghost

Touch one hair of the ones I adore

And you will never walk out of this door

(never walk out!)

I hold the line

Through blood and time

Sleep safe inside

I run the night