There's a forest that lies by a dark inland sea where great oaks and tall beeches do stand The dark waters it's said are the tears that were shed by the fae that were banished from the land From the cool sacred springs the korrigan sings with a haunted and siren like sound And by the lake deep and wide grow two trees side by side with their trunks and their limbs twisted round
The trees hold together in a lovers embrace and have stood as the centuries pass Awaiting the time for the rune and the rhyme and the spell to broken at last But from their prison of green never will they be free and to the wheel of the seasons be tied For the magick holds fast many life times to last so in the greenwood forever must bide
Memories stir through the branches and limbs and the wind in the hazel does sing Of a time when the world was new underfoot when a queen walked this shore with her king Of a dark one unseen with cold eyes of green who in a jealous rage did despair And vowed by the phases of the Moon wax and wane to banish and vanish the pair
On a chill night that was brewed by the wind the Moon lay in a cold baleful sky From the worlds in between came a bleak alchemy and on the wind the poison did fly Beneath the black cloak the grim magick was spoke and crept like a mist over stones And from the soil rich and dark came trunk limb and bark where once there was flesh blood and bones
There's a forest that lies by a dark inland sea where great oaks and tall beeches do stand The dark waters it's said are the tears that were shed by the fae that were banished from the land From the cool sacred springs the korrigan sings with a haunted and siren like sound And by the lake deep and wide grow two trees side by side with their trunks and their limbs twisted round And by the lake deep and wide grow two trees side by side with their trunks and their limbs twisted round