Enter Faery
Oh my son there’s much you have to learn
Your journey starts this day
Beware my son the treacheries of the Ash
And of the Alder Maid
Oh my son there’s much you have to learn
Your journey starts this day
Your shadow seeks you even now
Godspeed you on your perilous way
Oh my son prepare yourself for many
Trials lie in wait
Do not let fear control your heart
Or surely it shall seal your fate
Prepare yourself for what’s to come
The many battles you must face
There’s magic deep inside these woods
That’s lived here since the ancient days
The Ash
Your petty contrivance
To glean from your plight
A solace from fear
Is a pitiful sight
I’ll chase you down
Till I get what I need
It’s a fools errand running
‘Cause you can’t outrun me
I will hunt you down
I need to have it all
I need to have it now
I’ll kill to have it
Spilling blood
To get what I need
The Beech
I was running for my life
Frantically I
Was trying to find
A way to escape
Were you waiting the night
The tempest from hell
Served both of us well
And threw me in your arms
Your kiss brushed up against my cheek
Like evening winds upon the leaves
Your voice was a melody
Unerringly sweet
Singing
Oh child don’t be afraid
The nightmare will do you no harm
While you’re safe in my arms
Let me sing you my songs
Till the dawn comes to wash you with light
Oh child don’t be afraid
Let me brush all the tears from your face
Just stay here with me till you fall asleep
And I’ll sing you the dreams of a tree
The storm raged all around
The demon behind
Consuming my mind
With panic and dread
The nightmare almost took my life
But fortune and fate
Conspired with his hate
To throw me in your arms
Your arms around me gently wrapped
My head to your heart you clasped
The world slowed and peace relapsed
And all seemed so right
Oh child don’t be afraid
The nightmare will do you no harm
While you’re safe in my arms
Let me sing you my songs
Till the dawn comes to wash you with light
Oh child don’t be afraid
Let me brush all the tears from your face
Just stay here with me till you fall asleep
And I’ll sing you the dreams of a tree
I saw the ne’er before
I see the nevermore
But love and help and pain, beautiful one,
Have made thee mine till all my days are done.
Such beautiful dusky skies
Were glowing softly in your eyes
And under that twilight
My fear finally died
Lady of the Marble
In this alabaster tomb you lie
So I’ll stay here till the day I die
Singing you songs
As the years fade away
Hoping one day maybe you’ll sing along
Through the mist of hope and memory
Can you hear my lonely melody
Through marble walls
Can you hear as I call
Can you hear my heart beating with yours
If I turned to stone beside you
Could we dream together
So you’d never
Be alone
But if I could just hold you for a moment
That would be better
Than lying forever
Dreaming together
So close
Oh my sleeping beauty would a kiss
Placed upon your marble lips
Bring back to life
All the joy in your eyes
That sparkled before you were cursed
I will search through every distant land
To find a spell that’s strong enough
To free your hands
Just for a chance
To ask you to dance
With me
For the rest of our lives
If I turned to stone beside you
Could we dream together
So you’d never
Be alone
But if I could just hold you for a moment
That would be better
Than lying forever
Dreaming together
So close
Just a glance
Just a touch
Just a smile
Is enough
Just a word
Just a sigh
Just a kiss
Before I die
Rusted Armor
A knight in rusted armor
Who’s always on the run
An aimless weary traveler
Is all that I’ve become
My heart is numb and tired
From all my faults and lies
The apathy within me
Steals the tears I wish I cried
There is no redemption
To be won without my blood
So I’ll wear this rusted armor
And face the coming flood
Just give me one more battle
So I may die in peace
Amidst a glorious struggle
I will fall and slowly bleed
I have lost my taste for life
And all has turned to grey
Since I took off my armor
For that cursed Alder maid
I was proud upon a time
But now I’m on the run
I cannot hold my head high
Knowing all the things I’ve done
There is no redemption
To be won without my blood
So I’ll wear this rusted armor
And face the coming flood
Just give me one more battle
So I may die in peace
Amidst a glorious struggle
I will fall and slowly bleed
I will win my honor
If it takes ten thousand days
I will wear this armor
Until I’ve cleaned these stains
I will fight for honor
No matter what stands in my way
I will wash this armor
In a storm of evil blades
I will find redemption
I will sacrifice my blood
I’ll wear this rusted armor
And face the coming flood
So give me one more battle
To end these darkened dreams
I’ll finish what I started
To wash this armor clean
I will wash this armor clean
Maid of the Alder
Why’d you run from me
The one, my love, who set you free
I sang my heart out
To break the curse that hung around
You
Oh my love
No
Please don’t go
Our love is like snows and tempests
Rolling endless
It’s torrents and water sprites
Dancing all night
Oh look in my eyes and you’ll see
Drink in my beauty
On this sultry summer night
Till the dawns condemns us to light
It’s just us at last together
Would you stay forever
(remix of past vocals)
Oh I wish tonight
Would last a whole lifetime
Your voice and story
Have trapped me now completely in
You
Oh my love
No
Please don’t go
Our love is like snows and tempests
Rolling endless
It’s torrents and water sprites
Dancing all night
Oh look in my eyes and you’ll see
Drink in my beauty
On this sultry summer night
Till the dawns condemns us to light
It’s just us at last together
Would you stay forever
We’ll be drunk on moonlight and love tonight
Until the dawn condemns us to light
Let’s get drunk on moonlight and love tonight
Until the dawn condemns us to light
Shadow
I’m just the ghost of a man
Wandering faceless
I’ve been running from this shadow
Behind me for ages
Oh it gets to my soul
This twisted road
I run
In that little house
Away in the woods
Oh I would take it all back
If only I could
I can’t escape
Flashbacks from that day
So black
I’m sinking into my shadow
Sinking down down down
I’m spinning out in these shallows
Spinning round round round
What you gonna do
When your shadow
Hunts you down but pray
And the blackest night
And the brightest day
Don’t wipe his grin away
I can’t shake this darkness
It’s taken my mind
It’s turning all the world grey
And clouding my eyes
It won’t let me be
Till it’s all I see
All day
Oh my dark companion
Won’t give me a rest
Sometimes I hope maybe
It’s all in my head
I hope one day soon
Maybe I can lose
These chains
I’m sinking into my shadow
Sinking down down down
I’m spinning out in these shallows
Spinning round round round
What you gonna do
When your shadow
Hunts you down but pray
And the blackest night
And the brightest day
Don’t wipe his grin away
Oh I knew that day
I should not have stayed
But instead of running
I made myself at home
I remember now
All the sinking doubts
Before I opened the door
That’s made my heart so cold
I can’t get away
I can’t shake these chains
Will I ever outrun this shadow to the grave
River
Look it up in the book if you need to. Too much to write it out here.
Cosmo
I thought I was dreaming
When I saw you the first time
I still can’t quite
Believe our lives aligned
The mirror that brought us together
Now holds us apart
I’m still not sure just how far
But I’ll make this room
Into a home for you
And I’ll do all I can
To let you know I’m here
Break this spell
I will prove my love
Break this mirror
I’ll send it to hell
But alas could it be that I care
More for your love than I dare admit
If our love was lost
Would such a cost
Make it worth being free
I know though it’s clouded by passion
Your love will be pure
I’m trying so hard to be sure
To live in this curse any longer
If you were not there
Is not a life I could bear
But this room has grown
To slowly feel like home
And I’ll do all I can
To let you know I’m here
Break this spell
I will prove my love
Break this mirror
I’ll send it to hell
But alas could it be that I care
More for your love than I dare admit
If our love was lost
Would such a cost
Make it worth being free
I will not
Wait to be
Willing to
Set you free
What is this can it be true
I must make haste and go to you
The curse is shattered with the glass
Forever yours I’m free at last
Death made me bold
You love me truly now I know
Have I atoned
What is this death you speak of,
Why are you so cold?
Do I love you just a little
Oh you’ve proved it now and I love you
Truly
The Wise Woman’s Song
Oh light of dead and dying days
When love is lost and takes the road
In a rosy mist and moonlit maze
O’er the peakless paths of snow
What is left the broken soul
That cries like a wounded dove
The only wine that’s strong enough to make it whole
Is to love, and love, and love
Even in the worst moments of your distress
Remember there’s something I know
I may not always tell
But despite all the pain
The reason would satisfy your soul
Better to lie at the waters source
Than strive in a sea of waves
To live in the love that floweth forth
Than the love that comes your way
Even in the worst moments of your distress
Remember there’s something I know
I may not always tell
But despite all the pain
The reason would satisfy your soul
Be thy heart a well of love my child
Flowing free and sure
For cisterns of love, though undefiled
Keep not the spirit pure
Giants
In the fields alone
As the evening approached
She held to her breast
The locket he gave her before he left
Then a lull in the breeze
Brought the sound of feet
And the sound of a cry
To her ears
Oh lady thy lover has died
We will sing
Of our hero prince forever
Who vanquished our oppressors
When he slew the giants
He will live in our memory
In this song of reverie
We will sing of the blood he gave in battle
Of the giants slain like cattle
When he died for freedom
A tear from her eye
Stained her cheek as she sighed
Then the wind caught her hair
And swept over the hills as she softly declared
The tears that I cry
Are a price well worthwhile
To have loved such a man
All women will envy my story throughout this land
We will sing
Of our hero prince forever
Who vanquished our oppressors
When he slew the giants
He will live in our memory
In this song of reverie
We will sing of the blood he gave in battle
Of the giants slain like cattle
When he died for freedom
Up to the throne they brought
The pale and lifeless boy
The old king smiled like a winter’s day
With a pained and deathlike joy
Oh sing
Of your hero prince forever
Who vanquished your oppressors
When he slew the giants
Let him live in your memory
In a song of reverie
White Wolf
There’s something off
Something fell in the air
I can’t put my finger on it
But I know it’s there
Sometimes the worst things
We don’t even see
Because they’re sitting before us
So obviously
In Paradisum
In paradisum deducant te angeli
In tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres
Et perducant te in civitatem
Sanctam Ierusalem
Chorus angelorum te suscipiat
Et cum Lazaro quondam paupere
Aetername habeas requiem
Epilogue
Under the shadow of a great ancient beech
That lay on the edge of the field
A great good is coming
I lay with my eyes closed listening to the leaves
Lost in the ocean of sound
A great good is coming
Few have at all times the simplicity and courage
To believe this truth
What we call evil is only the best form
That we allow good to assume