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avevale_intelligencerThis is by way of being an "end credits song" for the Countess's excellent novel SALAK: Blood On Bookwalk, still available in chunky paperback or ebook form from Lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/janet-m-warner/blood-on-bookwalk/paperback/product-16255154.html (ebook link on the right there, along with some other volumes in the series). Since it is an end credits song, it contains some plot spoilers, so unless you've read the book, have no plans to, or don't care one way or the other, I would urge you not to click on the following cut:
Blood On Bookwalk
Verse
Dancing the lightning, embracing the thunder
He named her and claimed her, a waif and a stray
Her heart was broken, she spoke and he heard her
A tale of foul murder, of peace torn away.
Verse
Life in the balance, tearing asunder
A Keeper, a sleeper, a prince or a slave
How could he dream that the scream that he heard then
Would bring a new burden, from beyond the grave.
Chorus
Now there's blood on Bookwalk - the dead are rising
Blood on Bookwalk - we speak their names
There's blood on Bookwalk - the past is waking
An old oathbreaking, an ancient shame.
Verse
The crystal mirror, it made him wonder
A broken token from a world long lost
He tried to read it, to feed it some power
And in that dark hour, he knew the cost.
Chorus
Now there's blood on Bookwalk - the dead are rising
Blood on Bookwalk - we speak their names
There's blood on Bookwalk - the past is waking
An old oathbreaking, an ancient shame.
Verse
Torture and treachery, pillage and plunder,
Cloak violence in silence, the wages of war
They did not live to forgive their deceiver,
Now the ghosts of Kniva are stirring once more.
Chorus (x2)
And there's blood on Bookwalk - the news is breaking
Blood on Bookwalk - soon all will know
There's blood on Bookwalk - the shadows are falling
But the dead are calling, and now he must go.
Outro
To undo an evil from long long ago.
There will be a tune as soon as I can pry it away from "I Believe In Father Christmas," which was sounding very nice till I recognised it... :(
Blood On Bookwalk
Verse
Dancing the lightning, embracing the thunder
He named her and claimed her, a waif and a stray
Her heart was broken, she spoke and he heard her
A tale of foul murder, of peace torn away.
Verse
Life in the balance, tearing asunder
A Keeper, a sleeper, a prince or a slave
How could he dream that the scream that he heard then
Would bring a new burden, from beyond the grave.
Chorus
Now there's blood on Bookwalk - the dead are rising
Blood on Bookwalk - we speak their names
There's blood on Bookwalk - the past is waking
An old oathbreaking, an ancient shame.
Verse
The crystal mirror, it made him wonder
A broken token from a world long lost
He tried to read it, to feed it some power
And in that dark hour, he knew the cost.
Chorus
Now there's blood on Bookwalk - the dead are rising
Blood on Bookwalk - we speak their names
There's blood on Bookwalk - the past is waking
An old oathbreaking, an ancient shame.
Verse
Torture and treachery, pillage and plunder,
Cloak violence in silence, the wages of war
They did not live to forgive their deceiver,
Now the ghosts of Kniva are stirring once more.
Chorus (x2)
And there's blood on Bookwalk - the news is breaking
Blood on Bookwalk - soon all will know
There's blood on Bookwalk - the shadows are falling
But the dead are calling, and now he must go.
Outro
To undo an evil from long long ago.
There will be a tune as soon as I can pry it away from "I Believe In Father Christmas," which was sounding very nice till I recognised it... :(