Rush – The Necromancer (Guitar)

[Intro]
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'As grey traces of dawn tinge the eastern sky

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The three travellers, men of Willowdale

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Emerge from the forest shadow

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Fording the River Don, they turn south, journeying

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Into the dark and forbidding lands of the Necromancer

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Even now the intensity of his dread power can be felt

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Weakening the body and saddening the heart

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Ultimately they will become empty, mindless spectres...

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Stripped of will and soul,

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Only their thirst for freedom gives them hunger for vengeance...'

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Silence shrouds the   forest

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As the birds announce the dawn

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Three trav'llers ford the river

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And southward journey on

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The road is lined with peril

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The air is charged with fear

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The shadow of his nearness

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Weighs like iron tears

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'Shreds of black cloud loom in overcast skies

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The Necromancer keeps watch with his magic prism eyes

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He views all his lands and is already aware of the three helpless invaders

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Trapped in his lair...'

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Brooding in the tower

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Watching o'er his land

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Holding ev'ry creature

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Helplessly they stand

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Gaze into his prisms

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Knowing they are near

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Lead them to the dungeons

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Spectres numb with fear

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They bow defeated

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'Enter the Champion

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Prince By-Tor appears to battle for freedom from chains of long years

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The spell has been broken...the Dark Lands are bright

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The Wraith of the Necromancer soars

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Away in the night.'

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Stealthily attacking

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By-Tor slays his foe

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The men are free to run now

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From labyrinths below

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The Wraith of Necromancer

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Shadows through the sky

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Another land to darken

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With evil prism eye

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Repeat till fade out.