RUN FROM THE HOUND | Dark Celtic Myth | Legendary Battle | Bard Tales

Welcome to the tavern. Leave a comment telling what is the next tale you want! Like and subscribe! When the youth of Ulster fell, the boy was gone, and something red looked through. This is the contiuation of the tale of Cú Chulainn’s, the moment a hero became a monster to save his land. Lyrics: [INTRO] They came from Ulster’s sleeping halls Too young for shield and spear The boys who watched him bleed alone Could not stay bound by fear They crossed the fields at morning With small hands clenched in pride To stand beside the only blade Still fighting on their side [PRE-CHORUS] They thought that courage made them men Before the war began [CHORUS] They killed the boys They woke the hound The red rage rose And shook the ground Run from the man Run while you can For war has found The monster in the man [VERSE 2] The war-host saw them coming Like lambs before the flood And iron answered innocence With mud and bitter blood Their small shields split beneath the blows Their bright eyes filled with clay And one by one the children fell Where older men should stay [PRE-CHORUS] He saw the small shields broken He saw what they had done [CHORUS] They killed the boys They woke the hound The red rage rose And shook the ground Run from the man Run while you can For war has found The monster in the man [VERSE 3] His breath went still inside him His fingers locked like stone The battle dimmed around his eyes The wind forgot to moan Then something moved beneath his skin And twisted bone from bone The face that turned toward the host Was not the one they’d known [PRE-CHORUS] The hound was gone The boy was gone And something red looked through [CHORUS] They killed the boys They woke the hound The red rage rose And shook the ground Run from the man Run while you can For war has found The monster in the man [VERSE 4] One eye sank into shadow One burned like funeral coal His hair rose sharp as spear-points Dark heat devoured him whole His limbs bent wrong with thunder His mouth drew back from breath And every man who came for war Now saw the shape of death [PRE-CHORUS] They wanted blood They wanted war They woke what war had made [BRIDGE] No horn could call him backward No friend could cross his path The red thing wearing human skin Had torn through blood and wrath The shield-wall split before him The spear-ranks lost their nerve And those who came to harvest death Were fed to what they served [VERSE 5] He carved through ranks like wildfire He broke their painted shields And left the proudest captains Face-down in trampled fields The war-host cried for distance The horses screamed and fled For no man saw a hero there Just fury walking red [PRE-CHORUS] By dusk the crows were circling By dusk the host had learned [FINAL CHORUS] They killed the boys They woke the hound The red rage rose And shook the ground Run from the man Run while you can For war has found The monster in the man They wanted blood They wanted land But what they found Was the monster in the man Do not call the boy Do not speak his name Some fires save the dying land But leave the living changed The army fled The field lay still The dead lay left behind And somewhere in the red dust stood The boy no one could find #cuchulainn #irishmythology #bardsong #darkfantasymusic #celticfolklore #epicmusic #TheOldBard