Enjoy this performance of Lament for Lost Gods. It originally appeared in More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home, released in 1987. Buy Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/204205/More-Leaves-from-the-Inn-of-the-Last-Home-2e?affiliate_id=50797
Vocals and guitar performed by andresarcv.
About Lament for Lost Gods
This is one of the most heart-rending songs I have collected recently. As far as I know it exists only in this form and so was probably composed soon after the Chaos War when the gods left Krynn. I found it amid the rubble of a house belonging to Berrenclarnosti, elven scholar and musician. He was believed murdered a year after the Chaos War ended by thieves who coveted the metals in some of the instruments he collected.
There are few indications in the music related to performing this song: I have left it so intentionally because the key, the phrasing, and the words say everything necessary. Give your ear to the song, and the music will deliver the rest.
Mirrashar, Elven Bard
Lyrics
Who will look down on us,
Who will intercede?
Who will answer questions,
help in time of need?
Who will guide our fairing
forth to near or far?
Who will take an interest
in flood, in storm, in war?
The gods we knew are vanished,
never more to still
the pleas of aching voices
so lone, so pained, so shrill.
Is there any hope left?
Will there soon appear
a dawn undimmed by sorrow,
a dawn unmasked by fear
When we can be encouraged
by guardians in the skies
who sing to us of succor,
who promise us a scrye
of things eternal
All alone abandoned
we cry pleading for one bright hand
owned by an immortal
when gods return to Krynn.
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