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“White Mountain” is a song by the progressive rock group Genesis. It was released on their second studio album, Trespass. Lyrically, the song tells a fable of a wolf named Fang, who seeks to usurp the authority of the pack leader (an old undefeated hero known as One-Eye) by learning of the crown and sceptre known only to the king. The sentence for Fang’s sin is death. As the song progresses, Fang is chased by a pack of wolves led by One-Eye, before falling before the king in an epic final battle between the two. One-Eye then hides the crown and returns to his pack in peace. The lyrics initially describe the characters as wolves, but later refer to One Eye performing actions which appear to mark him out as a human (e.g .raising a sceptre). This may be an attempt in the song to... Read on...