Songs of Calythera

IntroDeep in the dark where the forge never sleeps, we are the fire the mountain keeps VerseThe hammer rang In the hollow dark Every hall we dreamed We left our mark ChorusDeep in the hold The fire still turns What the mountain keeps The mountain earns The forge runs long Past the last man's name What we made here stands What we made here stays BridgeBefore the first hand found the flame The mountain was burning It burns the same Long past the last forge Long past the last hand The mountain keeps burning As only stone can OutroStill burning Still turning Still here Still

Verse 1First name on the wall No one before me Just cold steel on stone And a road to follow Left my name like a promise Ain't no good reason why Knew something needed doing I was the one ChorusNot lost Just where we chose to be South of the last lamp Where no Aether runs free We cut our names for the wall to hold them Never to come back again Verse 2Hundreds of names Before I found the stone Felt the depth of the grooves Carved my own Each one a door Each one a choice already made Lifted the chisel anyway Knowing what it weighed Verse 3So many gone before me Names I'll never know Ran my hand along the wall And almost let go Who am I to stand here Among the ones who gave Pressed my name into the stone And hoped that I was brave OutroThe wall doesn't mourn It just holds Name after name In the cold We weren't taken from you We went

VerseIn Calythera's western seas we ride, Heave away, lads, heave! From Brassveil Port we launch with pride, Heave away, lads, heave! ChorusOh the waves they roar and the tempests cry, Storm and shadow beneath the sky, Forge your blade on the thunder tide, For Calythera waits where the heroes die! VerseThe black sails billow in salt-laced gale, Haul away, boys, haul! Past jagged reefs where the strong winds wail, Haul away, boys, haul! VerseThe Forge Master stands at the prow so bold, Heave and hammer, heave! Hammer of storms in his iron hold, Heave and hammer, heave! VerseSo lift your voices across the foam, Heave away home, heave! Calythera calls her sailors home, Heave away home, heave!

Verse 1Woke before the town rose at dawn Boots on, packed and gone. Didn't say goodbye to a soul. This place never felt quite like home. Verse 2Passed a man who only nodded. Their children warm against the glass. I moved on before they could name me. The long road soon forgets who we are. ChorusBoots worn through at the same place twice. Warmed at stranger's fires. Another town that isn't mine. Another road come morning. Verse 3Home is just a thing some others hold. A feeling I used to know well. Another room sits empty now Like so many I've left before. Verse 4I wake and reach for what is gone. No face, no voice, no name to give. Just a body asking for what's gone. The hands go still. I rise the same. Verse 5The road doesn't end. It just goes further on. Past where the maps give way. Past where the lamps are gone.