From the recording Dimming Aquila: Volume 1 (Greatest ALTAiR Contributions)
This is the only track on here I didn't write the music for; that distinction falls to Erik. But it was originally just instrumental, and appeared on TECHNOPHOBiA, our first 2003 release. During the pandemic, a great overlapping vocal melody came to me in the shower and it fit perfectly to the dark groove of Ozark. From there, the story about a warrior queen that comes to life from stone and avenges the people of the Ozarks was just one of the rare fantasy-based lyrics that I've done.
Lyrics
Moving through the plains
Shifting shadows fall
Cleanse her people's stains
Answering their call
She
Is
The
Queen
Her Highness Ozark
Woe befalls her foes
Descends upon them swift
Choking screams and death throes
The mercy kill is a gift
(She) Queen of the Hills
(Is) She descends at night
(The) Like a raven, so dark
(Queen) From the Hills of
(Her Highness Ozark) The Ozark
She shall feast upon flesh, fresh
She shall feast upon flesh, fresh
She shall feast upon flesh, fresh
She shall feast upon fresh flesh
(She) Queen of the Hills
(Is) She descends at night
(The) Like a raven, so dark
(Queen) From the Hills of
(Her Highness Ozark) The Ozark
Returns to the Hills
Her people safe once more
Satiated from kills
Returns to stone, as before
(Chants, Howling)
(She) Queen of the Hills
(Is) She descends at night
(The) Like a raven, so dark
Her Highness Ozark
(She) Queen of the Hills
(Is) She descends at night
(The) Like a raven, so dark
From the Hills of
The Ozark
(Chants, Howling)