words and music: kreftron


I built the roads that forced you there
Can't get you back
I have to try
I'll build it up, or I'll tear it all down
I'll bend the shadows
Cuz in shadow you lie

No place feels like home

I did it all to bring me here
No turning back
Please understand

I never felt closer to home
Than with you three fools
You made me feel closer to home
I'm gonna miss you fools
I'm making a new home
But I won't forget you

Roads & Homes I: Rosie's Road

In the back of my mind,
Obligation, dancing and preening.
The road at my feet,
Anticipation, thrilling but fleeting.

Don't wanna take the seat
It's just not right for me

In front of my eyes,
She disappears, tired and ageless
What would you do, grandmother?
I guess we need a home, anyway

Alright, I'll take the seat
I'll take this grove to keep
With her by my side, I'll take the seat
But I walk that road in my dreams

I'll walk that road in my dreams
I'll see you all in dreams

Roads & Homes II: Walnut's Home

So close to understanding 
I finished the song, now I'll finish the book.
The way the light refracts
I could do it. Just have to look.

But where would that leave me
Frozen in eternity
Imprisoned by certainty
Alone.

I could be home
But I'll take the road 
I could be home
But I'll take the road
One last time

It all falls away
The last thing to go are the bonds that I made
It all falls away
The last thing to go are the bonds that I made
The last thing to go

Roads & Homes III: K'thriss' Road

[D]
We can stop here tonight if you want to
Don't wanna go all the way back home anyway
We can take them all on if you want to
We'll get there eventually

[C]
You always do all the fun stuff without me
And it's my turn, I wanna learn what you can show me
You been gone for so long and now we're together
We'll go where I want to

[D]
You take the lead, little coin
They call it the Long Road but it feels more like home
Just you and me, little coin
We'll take the long way home

Roads & Homes IV: Donaar's Way Home

words: Stephen Wells [https://twitter.com/EssayWells]
musics: kreftron [https://twitter.com/kreftron]

special thanks to the C Team [http://www.acq-inc.com/cteam]

The Song of Vars-Melis in His Exile

All things by kreftron

It's been some time with one thing on my mind
I'd do anything to bring you back to me
They say you can't ever go home again
But I can see it there, so close but out of reach

Now it's time to think about someone else's problems for a while

I know I can't keep living in the past
But that don't mean it's easy to forget
Well Mama, I tried to see you one last time
But that's as close as I will ever get

Now it's time to think about someone else's problems for a while
Please just let me think about someone else's problems for a while

I was ready, I was ready
I'd said my goodbyes
How do I just come back from this to live my life?

Now it's time to think about someone else's problems for a while
Please just let me think about someone else's problems for a while

Someone Else's Problems

Extra special thanks to my fellow Shadow Councillors who lent their voices and effort to this project!

The Writer/Arranger:
kreftron

The Choir (in order of appearance):
Chase/anxiety (twitter:@chasecapener)
Rachelle/Phyto/DP (twitter:@drunkphyto)
me/kreftron/alreft (twitter:@nickkrefting)
Orinen
Bentoma (twitter:@bentoma4)

This is a tribute to the glittering dragon god-king Vars-Melis, protector and prophet of Jinaar, long may he reign. We sing this song on solemn nights, after much holy wine, while we await the ring of The Fork.

The seasons turn, the silence falls, our eyes look toward the sky
He calls, we answer

We hold these gates from foe and fire, from bow and spear and steel
These walls, protect him

Restless we stand vigilant, our eyes are clear and keen
These halls, his armor

We feel the air reverberate, we hear the fateful tone
He calls, we answer

Through twisting tunnels, secret ways, to seek our destiny
We crawl, we stumble

He speaks in visions, weal and woe, his futures made to cure, 
And forestall disaster

The seasons turn, the silence falls, our eyes look toward the sky
He calls, we answer

We Answer

Put Myself Back Together

The Winter Domestic

Live from Small Town Benny's Digital Speakeasy [twitter.com/false0start], 22-Oct-2020

The words:

Dipped my toes in the pond scum
Felt the life crawling on them
Disconnected from the history in me

Fell into a depression
Staring off into nothing
Every fiber in my body trying to move

Where is all the hope I used to feel

Filled my palms up with fresh dirt
Scraped my arms with the effort
Well aware that this all all just make believe

What remains for the future
Is it more than small scraps of comfort
Spinning wheels and pushing walls that never move

All The Hope I Used To Feel [Live Demo]

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