The BRIDGE - Voice/text/music  François Bourgouin

THE OBLIVION CRONICLES part 1-voice/text/music  François Bourgouin

My father passed away today 18th Feb 2022. The last few months were particularly hard for him and he just wanted to die.  This song is one of a few I wrote as catharsis. Sometimes we can live too long when quality of life has gone. 

Sometimes there's no justice
There's no need to try
You just need to trust us
'Til it's your time to die

It's painful to watch you
It's not living at all
Just waiting the days through
For that hammer to fall

I know you really want to go
There's nothing I can do
I want you to know

I feel so helpless
Impotent and scared
It's all so hopeless
But cannot be repaired

I know you really want to go
There's nothing I can do
I want you to know
I know you really want to go
There's nothing I can do
I want you to know

A Thousand Cuts

43th Song(easy)

All music written and performed by: John Baker
All lyrics written and performed by: Dark Number Nine
All lead guitar written and performed by: Icarus Death

Matthias Corvinus came to Transylvania in November 1462. The negotiations between Corvinus and Vlad lasted for weeks, but Corvinus did not want to wage war against the Ottoman Empire. At the king's order, his Czech mercenary commander, John Jiskra of Brandýs, captured Vlad near Rucăr in Wallachia. 

To provide an explanation for Vlad's imprisonment to Pope Pius II and the Venetians (who had sent money to finance a campaign against the Ottoman Empire), Corvinus presented three letters, allegedly written by Vlad on 7 November 1462, to Mehmed II, Mahmud Pasha, and Stephen of Moldavia. According to the letters, Vlad offered to join his forces with the sultan's army against Hungary if the sultan restored him to his throne. Most historians agree that the documents were forged to give grounds for Vlad's imprisonment. Corvinus's court historian, Antonio Bonfini, admitted that the reason for Vlad's imprisonment was never clarified.

 In the summer of 1475, Stephen III of Moldavia sent his envoys to Matthias Corvinus, asking him to send Vlad to Wallachia against Basarab Laiotă, who had submitted himself to the Ottomans. Stephen wanted to secure Wallachia for a ruler who had been an enemy of the Ottoman Empire, because "the Wallachians [were] like the Turks" to the Moldavians, according to his letter. According to the Slavic stories about Vlad, he was only released after he converted to Catholicism.

IMPRISONMENT

Curse of betrayal
is always around
Blood is thicker than water
Just one is keeping me alive

My brother is no longer my blood
He turned my people against me
How can one Son of the Dragon
Betray one of his own
Radu, you traitor
How could you overthrow my throne?

And why am I deemed the only evil one?
For tortures, executions
I’ve only done what others ruler have
Instill awe in enemies
So the country remains strong

The loyal helped me escape
Thru the Carpathian mountains
To the fortress
Ottomans followed me there
They shoot with cannons
Poenari walls
start crumbling down

On the run to Brasov
To meet King Mattias, White night’s son
For political refuge,
‘Cause those Saxons want me dead
They still hear screams of the impaled
But I hear nothing

To Europe I’m a hero
Committed to crusades
I won’t break that Dragon Oath
If I’d only known what was waiting
The King’s secret orders for my arrest
Betrayed once again
Damn them all, Damn them all
To the darkest depths of hell
Where demons lie waiting

Down a mountain’s wall of stone
Lowered by ropes
Below the Saxon’s Valley
Where the greedy mercenary
Carries out the arrest

Imprisoned as a pawn and a threat
For twelve years, again, lying low
Faith is for fools and great men
I, a fool to have faith in the King
But I’m still a great man
I have faith
I‘ll regain the throne

(c) 2022 Dark Number Nine

4. Imprisonment

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