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Stringfire - Save our Souls

The Host

Dweller of the Threshold

This is the second known release by A Textbook Tragedy.

A Partial Dialogue Between Ghost And Priest

Dorsia Reservation: Bateman/Allen - 9:00

www.rasoschroedermusic.de

This is a song from the concept album “Save our Souls” listen to the whole story:

https://soundcloud.com/ralf-schroeder-257712263/sets/stringfire-save-our-souls?si=f561e4c4c5b84dbb81cb0aaffad231c4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Stringfire -  Depths of the Ocean

www.rasoschroedermusic.de

This is a song from the concept album “Save our Souls” listen to the whole story:

https://soundcloud.com/ralf-schroeder-257712263/sets/stringfire-save-our-souls?si=f561e4c4c5b84dbb81cb0aaffad231c4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Lyrics

Verse 1:
An armada set sail with hope in their hearts
To find the ship that had never arrived
The harbor waited, the nights grew dark
Three weeks gone, still no sign of life

Verse 1:
An armada set sail with hope in their hearts
To find the ship that had never arrived
The harbor waited, the nights grew dark
Three weeks gone, still no sign of life

Chorus:
We search the waves, we search the skies
For a ship that never said goodbye
Through the storm and through the night
We seek their souls, lost from sight
 
Verse 2:
The winds whispered secrets, the sea held its breath
With each passing day, we feared the worst
The crew stood silent, their faces set
In the hunt for the lost, we were cursed
 
Bridge:
No lighthouse to guide us, no stars in the sky
Just echoes of sailors, their whispers and sighs
Verse 3:
The waves crashed higher, the storm raged on
In the tempest's grip, we fought till dawn
chorus:
We search the waves, we search the skies
For a ship that never said goodbye
Through the storm and through the night
We seek their souls, lost from sight
 
Bridge:
The ocean’s depths, a grave so cold
It swallows the young, it swallows the old
We found a lifebuoy, a single clue
But not a soul to tell the tale through

Chorus:
We search the waves, we search the skies
For a ship that never said goodbye
Through the storm and through the night
We seek their souls, lost from sight

We seek their souls, lost from sight

Outro:
Three weeks passed, we turned back home
The sea had taken all we had known
No more voices, no more cries
In the depths, the ocean hides

Stringfire -  we search the Waves

Stringfire - Homecoming

www.rasoschroedermusic.de

This is a song from the concept album “Save our Souls” listen to the whole story:

https://soundcloud.com/ralf-schroeder-257712263/sets/stringfire-save-our-souls?si=f561e4c4c5b84dbb81cb0aaffad231c4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Lyrics

Verse 1:
In the fading light of evening, as the rescue ships return,
The ocean whispers tales of heartache, of hopes that couldn't burn.
We sailed through every tempest, we braved the fiercest storm,
But now our sails are heavy, and our hearts are worn and torn.

Chorus:
How do you tell a child, their father's not coming home?
How do you hold a wife, and say she's now alone?
Parents' hearts are breaking, their son's lost in the foam,
A valley full of tears, where once was love and hope.
 
Verse 2:
We searched with all our courage, through nights that had no end,
Each wave a cruel reminder, of the fate we couldn't bend.
Our voices cracked with sorrow, our spirits drained and low,
Returning now to harbor, with the hardest news to show.
 
Chorus:
How do you tell a child, their father's not coming home?
How do you hold a wife, and say she's now alone?
Parents' hearts are breaking, their son's lost in the foam,
A valley full of tears, where once was love and hope.
 
Bridge:
If only we had found them, if only hope remained,
We'd be the bearers of joy, not messengers of pain.
We tried until our strength gave out, until our hope ran dry,
Now all that's left is sorrow, beneath the darkened sky.

Chorus:
How do you tell a child, their father's not coming home?
How do you hold a wife, and say she's now alone?
Parents' hearts are breaking, their son's lost in the foam,
A valley full of tears, where once was love and hope.
 
Chorus:
How do you tell a child, their father's not coming home?
How do you hold a wife, and say she's now alone?
Parents' hearts are breaking, their son's lost in the foam,
A valley full of tears, where once was love and hope.

Outro:
Our journey ends in silence, the harbor's lights are dim,
With heavy hearts we anchor, our eyes filled to the brim.
We wish we bore the joyful news, but all our hopes are gone,
Returning home with empty hands, beneath the mournful dawn.

Stringfire - With heavy Hearts

Shattered Pieces

“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. 
Website: https://www.tomeofstars.net/

“Anemochory”, from the botanical term for wind-borne seed dispersal, forms the fourth Item of “Tome of Stars” and serves as a metaphor for the poet’s most desolate phase. It consists of fifteen sonnets of emotional scattering, spiritual disorientation, and theological anguish.

“Unsent” dramatizes an internal crisis in the wake of abandonment and emotional betrayal, casting the poet’s beloved not only as a tragic loss but, in long retrospect, as an actively harmful force in his life. The speaker lurches from bitter clarity to wounded supplication, oscillating between the desire to condemn and reject and the desperate hope for reunion. This emotional whiplash is central to the poem’s structure and message: it captures a psyche no longer certain of its devotion but still enslaved by longing. Drawing on violent religious and mythic imagery with satanic figures, angelic ruin, infernal wastelands, the sonnet explores how his grief over a lost love curdled into disillusionment and bitterness over decades, only to collapse into the rawest vulnerability at a moment’s notice. The final twist is that such emotionally explosive letters (there were many over the years) were never communicated. The title, “Unsent”, reveals the poet’s restraint and perhaps his shame and fear of further rejection. It is one of the clearest signs in Anemochory of a mind disoriented, mutating, scattered, and lost.

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Lyrics

At last the fumes have cleared, and I perceive
The serpents coiled beneath the fairy’s wings;
Such madness did my love-blind heart believe,
Drunk hope made sweet your venom’s bitter sting.

Dread deserts burn between us, dead and wide,  
Abyss so vast no mortal quest dare ford,  
Without redemption’s light to serve as guide,  
Or stitch the angel butchered by your sword.  

Unless you forge a light that hell can’t quench,  
Renew the ransacked wastelands of my heart,  
Then strangle every sound, satanic wench,  
Allow my mangled spirit to depart.  

But wait—don’t go! Dear gods, I’m rent! I plead!  
Remain and mend the broken shards of me!

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Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
https://archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: https://archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: https://archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: https://archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: https://archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

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