Haunting Echoes from the Seventeenth Century
Carach Angren Lyrics

Hear this legend:
Listen to the tale that follows:

A saga of despair from an old southern town called Sjilvend
A sad story from a southern town named Sjilvend unfolds:

The elder peasants warned us, we should fear a hidden unmarked tomb in those marshy woods not far from here
The old villagers cautioned us against a secret hidden grave in the nearby swampy woods:

This is the saga of the white ghost haunting Lammendam
The tale speaks of the ghost of Lammendam that roams the place:

There a sick reflection keeps resurrecting only when the sun is gone
A disturbing apparition appears in the dark of night sporting a diseased mien:

Once there stood a castle in a wood
Long back, a fort was built in the forest's depths:

It seemed a rather old, wealthy looking farmstead
The castle exuded wealth and antiquity:

There lived a girl with the beauty of a pearl
A beautiful young girl took up residence there:

Especially when she wore a white dress and wandered through fields of hard-working churls
She was most beautiful when she strolled among the laborers in her snow-white gown:

Everyone knew there were two young fellows who gave up everything for the love of their dreams
The locals were aware of two men who lost themselves to the whims of their love:

They did not care
They were not bothered:

Poor or rich...
Regardless of their social standing:

She stole their hearts like a goddamn witch
The lady had bewitched them and stolen their hearts:

This region once was called De Leiffartshof
De Leiffartshof was the name of the area back then:

One was the German son of Hцgenbusch, the other one came from a domain called Heeringhof
One was the German son of Högenbusch, and the other hailed from Heeringhof:

And they both weren't aware of their mistress in white who could not decide
Neither of the two young men knew of the mistress who couldn't choose between them:

Echoes... from the seventeenth century!
The repercussions of the events reverberated down the ages:

During day he came with his horse and carriage then whistled...
The man would visit her in his horse and carriage during the day and whistle as a signal:

Then she knew he was there...
She was aware of his presence then:

A secret affair!
Their rendezvous was a secret:

Therefore you'll be crowned as a whore
Thus, society will call her a whore for her actions:

Lammendam!
This is Lammendam, the place of the haunting:

Lammendam!
Lammendam keeps echoing:

The sun is drowning in the landscapes of the earth
The sun is setting on the land:

The time to seduce her second admirer
It is time to coax the second admirer:

There lies a note by the old knotted oak, carrying a stone and romantic poetry telling her when where to go
A message with poetic lines and a rock lays at the twisted oak, directing her movements:

One day he's riding his black horse through southern paradise
One day, while riding his horse through southern heaven:

By coincidence he caught his doll cheating with another lad
By coincidence, he found her with another man:

Slut!
He called her derogatory slurs:

Why?
He demanded an explanation of her actions:

... and they hated passionately ever after
Their subsequent enmity was intense: