new beginnings (acoustic version)

Don't Abandon All Hope


Lyrics

Good Children of Lir
To Peace and Rest now our Dearest
Sing sweet sweet songs
Swanned Children

Such jealousy jets Aoife here
Wicked words of spellbound fear
Oh your Dad has a life of crying
It seems his love was just too much
The radiance... Let no light in
It seems a succubus you're fighting
This World needs a brighten

The path is clear
Flute feathers that fear
Good Children of Lir
To Derravaragh Dearest
This dinnseanchas now hears us
Let us evolve past this anguish
Let this dinnseanchas of language
Heal with love
Heal now, languish

To Peace and Rest now our Dearest


Notes
I am very proud to present my first collaboration with fellow Irish artist The Beautiful Dark 
https://soundcloud.com/thebeautifuldark .

Here is the story behind the track ( in the words of the Beautiful Dark )

This began when I suggested in a song comment that we do a collaboration and I threw out folklore as the flavour.

Two days later Grian Óg sent me a wonderful 16 instrument orchestral composition. I added some acoustic guitar and wrote the lyrics based on one of Ireland's most famous legends in our mythology, The Children of Lir. I then sent back the whole idea to Grian Óg and he generated a mix that makes the idea what it should be. Amazing. Well done man!

Long story short... King Lir & Mama had 4 Kids / Mama passed :( / Succubus arrives (a person that sucks the life out of another person in a relationship) / She turned the poor kids into Swans and banished them for 900 years because she was jealous of the kings love for his children (what a bitch) / they came back shrivelled after 900 years, died and were all happy together again in the afterlife with their Dad and Mama!...

Eh em... Since Christianity likely highly adapted and redacted this myth....Aoife is enjoying Hell haha (when she's actually just with them all now having a laugh about it all) Her afterlife punishment was to laugh about it for 900 years...

Full redacted Christian version here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Lir (It's a wonderful story and well worth a read as is lots of Irish mythology)



Children Of Lir

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