Black Axe Rider

Intro

Mm, mm-hmm

Verse 1

Brooklyn concrete still beneath my feet

Twenty-eight scars in a heartbeat

Eight years old with charcoal in my hand

They said boy you don't understand

Quit the funny pages quit the grind

Something wild was living in my mind

Traded ink for oil and for bone

Started painting thunder all alone

Pre-Chorus

I don't paint pretty I paint the weight

Muscle and terror and coming fate

Chorus

Black axe rider through the dying light

Horse of shadow burning through the night

Conan's steel and Kull's old crown

Every warrior crawling from the ground

Frankie boy you showed us what we are

A spark of chaos and a bleeding star

Verse 2

Lancer called and sixty-six came fast

Cimmerian legend built to last

Tarzan swinging through the jungle vine

Snow giants howling in a straight white line

Every cover burned inside the brain

Bronze and iron screaming through the rain

Never needed one word to tell the tale

One stroke one shadow never failed

Pre-Chorus

They don't paint pretty they paint the weight

Sweat and sinew and coming fate

Chorus

Black axe rider through the dying light

Horse of shadow burning through the night

Egyptian queens on leopard skin

Vampirella moon beneath her chin

Frankie boy you showed us what we are

A spark of chaos and a bleeding star

Bridge

Pennsylvania woods where the shrine still stands

Ellie's fingers through his shaking hands

Goddess wild and dangerous and true

He painted what the whole world never knew

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Black axe rider through the dying light

Horse of shadow burning through the night

From pulp and paper to the mountain high

He taught us how a legend never dies

Yeah Frazetta lives in thunder blood and art

He painted hell and heaven on our hearts

Outro

Mm, mm-hmm

Rides for me