For space is wide and good friends are too few.
Suffer my soul, for the hunt is not over
The hounds follow me to the end of the earth
Through blood death and pain, I follow my calling
A road I have followed since the day of my birth
It’s really a pity that this recording is so corrupted, because from what I can tell it used to sound pretty neat. Now I guess it sounds doubly ominous, in a way.
“The Curse,” by Julia Ecklar
My amber cage had an amber lock
and the girl had an amber key
and a manticore was bound and sold
in the city in the trees.
This is just so pretty. “Manticore’s Lullaby,” by S. J. Tucker. Chords and lyrics available here.
“In the Halls of Our Fathers”, or “Thorin’s Farewell” which was it’s working title, is a song I wrote shortly after Easter, and I’ve been editing and revising it ever since. Only now am I happy with how the lyrics turned out. This is actually the very first recording I have ever done of it, done in one take with no editing (which is rather rare for me, as I usually do several takes with a lot of editing before I’m happy with it), so it’s practically a live version. I guess I’m just really eager to share it with you all! ^_^
The picture is of two wonderful cosplayers I had the pleasure of meeting at HobbitCon and is taken by Felix (http://revelio.deviantart.com/). You can find the whole photo shoot here:
http://bittersuites.tumblr.com/post/82818914778/the-clouds-burst-the-end-of-durins-lineThorin: http://a-very-important-dwarf.tumblr.com/
Bilbo: http://misterbilbo.tumblr.com/Lyrics
In the Halls of Our Fathers
(Thorin’s Farewell)Lift your gaze
For someone so small
You had a bravery
That baffled us all
And in your reluctance
You found in your heart
The kindness to see through
A rough-cut facadeAnd the road lay before you
So frightful and new
But you joined our company
As one of a few
To share an adventure
And through the world roam
To the Halls of our Fathers
Our homeLift you head
For all you have learned
You found your courage
When everything burned
In our darkest hour
To this ragged crew
Your heart remained loyal
And your spirit trueAnd the road lies behind you
The world lies ahead
Through woodland and mountain
And battle it lead
Together we stand now
Midst pillars of yore
In the Halls of our Fathers
Once moreLift your hand
And let it clasp mine
I need your forgiveness
Before it is time
Thief I once called you
But you are my friend
And the last to embrace me
Here at the endFor my road has ended
So bid me farewell
And remember me kindly
In stories you’ll tell
And lay me to rest
When my last breath has passed
In the Halls of our Fathers
At lastYeah, I’m sorry, but there is no way I’m not reblogging this after seeing the trailer …
Cosplaying Maryden Halewell (the tavern bard from Dragon Age Inquisition) makes me want to sing ALL the songs, but some of them don’t have melodies, which means I have to make melodies for them myself. 😉
This one is The Girl in Red Crossing. Hope you like it! ^_^
They say we are bloodless, that we’re nothing but machines
But still they beg to hire us when they have the means
I am no soldier, I’m a man of war
A Dorsai song, “Man of War” by Kathy Mar
I composed music to yet another unsung BioWare song from Dragon Age Inquisition and performed it as Maryden Halewell! Hope you like it! 😄
Bring me a star that's fallen from the sky To lay in my lady's hand Stay time in it's flight, Keep tomorrow from this night But time it does fly, and stars do not fall.
“Bring Me A Star,” by Cynthia McQuillen
Another song you can find lyrics to in Dragon Age: Inquisition, this one about the conquest of the Dales (if you don’t play Dragon Age, that means it’s about KILLING ELVES, and that’s all the context you really need). I may have come up with this tune at 2 AM in a hotel room at Dragon Con.
Credit to @sharkalanche, who was finishing her armor in that hotel room at Dragon Con and is the reason I didn’t just go the fuck to sleep, and @mostfacinorous, who still technically owns the mandolin I’ve been using.
The lyrics are here, and my chords are Em / D / Bm A / Bm Em
(I screw up the words at one point but YOU KNOW WHAT there are A LOT OF WORDS IN THIS)
And Lancelot, his head held highs said
I’ll die in love for Guinevere,
I’d die for love
“The Trial of Lancelot” by Heather Dale, lyrics and chords available here
Love me one more time,
Make this night last forever,
For on the morrow, I leave for battle–
“Tomorrow I Leave For Battle,” by Heather Alexander
Short, sweet, and sad. Lyrics available here