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Sacred Son - The Foul Deth of Engelond (acoustic)

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Sacred Son is a black metal project based in London, U.K.

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Our contribution is a very bare bones acoustic version of "The Foul Deth of Engelond," the title track from our latest album. In trve kvlt style I recorded it on my phone in my garage whilst a children's birthday party raged on next door.

lyrics

Lord!
Author of the Light
Father, be our shepherd
I beg, have mercy on us

Serfdom
Injustice endures
I plough the field, harvest the corn
For naught; no silver crossed my palm

Toiling without recompense
Until the worksmen succumb to pestilence
Wealthy is he who shan’t serve
Unless he receives the bounty he deserves

Though a royal command was decreed
The workers knew they had what landowners need
Lower orders unite to compress
Estates of society built to oppress

Battles won
Heavy is the cost
That knights and landholders must pay
Their bounties lost

Unjust
Make these farmhands pay
For far too long they take the spoils
This ends today

But ’twas not enough and the crown is pitiful
Too great a burden for a child’s shoulders to bear

A country on its knees
The king, a child, can do naught to redress

Invasion from the North
Tension fuelling rumours of mass violence

Mutinous garrisons
Arrears to pay, armies are deserting

Proposals to levy
villeins, rustics, ones of modest standing

Unjust!

The regent-elect
A tyrant, an autocrat

Peace secured in the north
The Duke returns to the child King’s counsel

Implicit treachery
Leaders of men lost their jurisdiction

Farcical governance
A tax on those who can least incur it

Landowners determined
to shift the cost, the burden on to others

Go forth and take from the hand of the strapped

The day will come when we shall hold the whip

Through the murk and stench of death the archdeacon appears
Commands them to settle their debts and make good the arrears
And thus the fuse had now been lit, the seeds were sewn, and soon there will be war
Justice of the peace spoke thus with a forked tongue:

‘Now atone for these lies and hand over your debts’

Chaos, disorder spread like a fire
Farm tools in their hands
You’ll swear by their oath

Nobles in their ranks
Three heads on poles
Heed the dire warning:
The revolt is born!

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from Black Metal Rainbows, released November 4, 2022

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