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A Changing of the Guard
Contributed by
Rous
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Tuesday, 23rd March 2004 @ 11:24:08 AM in AEST
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If you are not familiar with Tolkien's work, he wrote about a world that existed before ours. It was filled with Men, Elves, Dwarves and Hobbits. Basic good vs evil story. This song was inspired by the aftermath of the War of the Ring and the final departure of the Elves; some leave and some stay. Again, it can apply to many times and topics. It is based on a tune called Fields of Gold. You can find it at www.llyric11.angelcities.com/MUSIC3.html
Through the Sylvan plains
Through the Golden Woods
The water trickles sweetly
Grasses in the wind
Leaves shake in the trees
Whispers sounds repeatedly
The sun shines so bright
The rain falls so cool
Refreshing all the earth
It restores the life
Brings it back again
The miracle of birth
Birds fly in the sky
Horses run the plains
The pulse runs through the land
Darkness known so long
Now but memory
Disappeared like shifting sand
An age now has gone
The time now arrived
A changing of the guard
The transient trudge towards home
The native hold their breath
The leaving found too hard
For there is still much for them to do
They find many reasons to tarry
The pull of the land is much
Too great
They hesitate
They will not leave
They hesitate
Choices mulled and made
Lines of decision drawn
Divide who stay and go
Shattered lives are left
Chaff across the land
The bitterness is all they know
The guardians will remain
Let them who will go forth
They never really were here
A stepping-stone until
They returned back home
Wave goodbye and shed a tear
Understanding not
The driving force behind
The ones who feel they must leave
Those who choose to stay
Never will forget
An endless lifetime left to grieve
Waves crash on the sand
Wind whips through the hair
The voices rise in song
Without backward thought
For who would remain
They only know for what they long
Rous 03-13-04 Friday
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Re: A Changing of the Guard
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by Remy on
Tuesday, 23rd March 2004 @ 06:06:33 PM AEST
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surreal and dreamy, and with tolkien's hand in it... curious, interesting, beautiful! ;0)
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