This is a cover of the song Ravens Roost, originally written and performed by Love Patrol Beta. 

Check out the original here: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-628290807/ravens-roost

Thank you so much to her for letting me cover this absolutely gorgeous song! I've been in love with it since I heard it a few months ago, and I finally got around to doing a cover of it. 

Lyrics:

So high on the windy grey cliffside
And under the mountains’ tall crest
As evening falls over the country
The ravens roost safe in their nest.
The ravens roost safe in their nest
The ravens roost safe in their nest
As evening falls over the country
The ravens roost safe in their nest.

Yet under a false-hearted hunter
The ravens were sorely oppressed
He chased them with hounds and with arrows
And took what he would from their nest.
And took what he would from their nest
And took what he would from their nest
He chased them with hounds and with arrows
And took what he would from their nest

Then up spoke a canny young raven
“My friends, we must rise and protest
We must drive off this false-hearted hunter
Till the ravens roost safe in their nest.”
The ravens roost safe in their nest.
The ravens roost safe in their nest.
We must drive off this false-hearted hunter
Till the ravens roost safe in their nest.

The ravens swooped down on the hunter
They plucked the gold chain from his breast
His hawks and his hounds were all scattered
So far from the ravens’ tall nest.
So far from the ravens’ tall nest.
So far from the ravens’ tall nest.
His hawks and his hounds were all scattered
So far from the ravens’ tall nest.

And now that the battle is over
So sweetly I’ll lay you to rest
And with the soft sky as your blanket
The ravens roost safe in their nest.
The ravens roost safe in their nest.
The ravens roost safe in their nest.
And with the soft sky as their blanket
The ravens roost safe in their nest.

The earlier version is the most common. It was penned by an unknown bard in the city of Raven’s Roost and spread to the surrounding countryside. Most bards who perform the song now are unaware of its origins. Less well-known is Variation B, which dates to shortly after the city fell. It never gained the popularity of the original ballad, and nowadays is very seldom sung.

But hunters, my darling, are cowards
Of this I can easily attest
So under the cover of darkness
He toppled the ravens’ tall nest.
He toppled the ravens’ tall nest.
He toppled the ravens’ tall nest.
So under the cover of darkness
He toppled the ravens’ tall nest.

And now that the battle is over
So sweetly I’ll lay you to rest
And with the soft earth as your blanket
The ravens sleep safe in their nest.
The ravens sleep safe in their nest.
The ravens sleep safe in their nest.
And with the soft earth as your blanket
The ravens sleep safe in their nest.

Ravens Roost

Raven's Roost (Cover)

For my party.

Lyrics:
Fate plays cards and Chance throws dice
And we mortals pay the price
And sometimes it’s more steep than we can bear.
They bring ruin and reknown
Build us up and tear us down
And fill the world with glory and despair.

But the strangest things they do
Are the ones like meeting you
A chance or choice or fate that seems so small
That it’s only looking on
At the path your life has gone
You’ll see it changed the future after all

So we’ll go on. So we’ll go on . . .
So we’ll go on

Do you think that if you’d stayed
You could fill that mold they made?
Instead you chose to break it and go free.
And though leaving left you scarred
And the life you built is hard
You made your own imperfect destiny

Do you think if you’d been shown
All the loss your life has known
You might have hung your head and turned away?
But with every path you cross
You’ll find love weighs more than loss
And so you’ll keep on loving anyway

So we’ll go on. So we’ll go on . . .

So we’ll go on, shoulder the weight
Of our chances and choices and fortunes and fates
So we’ll go far, never alone
And someday these someones who started out strangers will turn into home
They’ll turn into home.

Fate plays cards and Chance throws dice
And we can’t avoid the price
Of games that gods and universes play.
But whatever brought us here
Now I choose to keep you near
And I’ll fight whatever force gets in our way.

So we’ll go on. So we’ll go on

So we’ll go on, shoulder the weight
Of our chances and choices and fortunes and fates
So we’ll go far, never alone
Cause somehow these someones who started out strangers have turned into home
They’ve turned into home.

Chances & Choices & Fortunes & Fates (Friendship Campaign Theme)

Love Patrol Beta

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