Hearth's Warming Tale
– Ponies with Wintersun

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The Divided Land

I Wind Howls for Hunger

The kingdom of Starlight…
Shivering in relentless night,
States of the kin of Skies…
Scattered and torn in frost and spite,
Fields of the wealthy Earth…
The Spirit of Sorrow above the land,
Shared since the harmony’s birth…
In wind She weeps over the damned…

Wind howls the hunger’s song…
Starve…
Above the divided land…
Die…

Spirits of storm called forth by conflict…
I gaze upon the broken ties
And pray for the souls lost in their ire…


II Separation

Who has awakened the darkness?
(You’re the cause! You’re at fault!)
Where lies the cause for this disaster?
(We are the victims…)

“Who is the guilty to connive?”
“Where’s the betrayer, who hides?”
“Who is the selfish, who lies?”
“This isn't our fault, but yours…
It’s always you!”

Blizzard winds have swallowed the earth, covered the sunlight…
Sky won’t hear them anymore, the frost has trapped the world…

“We're always followed the treaty.”
“We've guided the day and night for you.”
“We've guarded the weather and skies.”
“We have always given you your share.”

“Is this how you try to abuse our work?
Why should we trust you now…
We are more worth saving than you!”

Who’s wrong and who’s right, when ties are torn apart…
“Selfless are brought down, we must care for ourselves now”
Solution lost in mistrust and blinding hate
You’re on your own before the unknown:
“Somewhere away we will find our way to survive… We’re alone…”


III Goodbye, Home

The warmth of the hearth wanes with the firewood…
Doors are closed from the homes hollow and cold.
The crops can grow no more in the frozen soil,
No sunlight can pierce the walls of winter clouds.

I bury my past beneath the ice and gathering darkness
And with broken heart I farewell my home…
The tears flow unstopped
But I must 'dure, be brave for the days beyond now;
We leave this dying land behind…

This is the end
(Goodbye)
(Their homes)
Buried in snow
(We meet no more)
Turning their backs to each other…

So they scatter…
(And gone they are)
…With scorn and hatred:
Specters will keep hunting the proud and the fool.
…No hope left for them anymore…


IV Reach Out for the New Land

We have begun our journey afar,
We've left our homesteads behind.
To reach out and seek the new land
That waits elsewhere for us…
We will not be lost to the great unknown,
We will not perish in the cruelest storm,
No peril can stop us from reaching the path,
To the home that we seek with all of our hearts.

The world is harsh and vast…
The path is long and dangers nigh.
Withstand the storm, be brave, prevail,
To carry on tomorrow’s light.
The world is harsh and vast…
And fate unkind to weak of heart.
Withstand the pain, move on, prevail,
And find your way to a paradise…
Our paradise

The heart of the storm keeps raging above
Endure it and keep moving forward, it’s soon behind
And we will be free!

We surpass the vicious and blind…
Triumphant we’ll find our light.

We have begun our journey afar…
We’ve left our homesteads behind.
To reach out and seek the new land
That waits elsewhere for us.
We will not be lost to the great unknown!
We will not perish in the cruelest storm!
No peril can stop us from reaching the path,
To the home that we seek with all of our hearts!

Wind howls above the divided land…
Wind howls alone in the silent land.