A song for Magic Brian (The Black Spider) from the point of view of his unnamed fiance, post-Story and Song.  An Adventure Zone fan song.

LYRICS:

[verse 1]
They say your thread should be five times as strong as steel
and yet when I reach out to you, there’s nothing I can feel
mysteries are nothing with you and I know that but it can’t be real
not till the story and song could I know that your fate was sealed

[refrain]
Hungry for power
voracious for more
you never needed the gauntlet
behind that door

[instrumental]

[verse 2]
I loved you for dangers that you had passed
you loved that I pitied them; our rings said they would last
but destroyed as machinery and thrown down a crevasse
not saved by the missives or spells that you cast

[verse 3]
Now nothing is balanced; I’m out half a whole
darkness fell from the sky; the world held out hope
but I learned where you went; but I still don’t know
why you left me behind; where you went where you’d go
and you fought the reclaimer and thought you would win
but you aren’t here now and I didn’t know when
I would see you at all when you left me alone
the hunger is dead; I have a house but no home…

[refrain]
Hungry for power
voracious for more
you never needed the gauntlet
behind that door

[instrumental]

Song for Brian

A song about The Adventure Zone and finding a place to belong, super inspired by the Mountain Goats (if you can't tell by the title and the general style).

LYRICS:

A big glass orb pulling through the sky
takes more than just a little might
I can’t help but think it’ll be all right
I’m going to the moon

Air cuts swiftly; I’ve got no control
brought to where I’m stead’ly pulled
I’m braced for impact, it’s warmth when I’m cold
I’m going to the moon

Only one of many of the skies above
I always feel safest when I’m with those I love
running away never seems to be enough so
I’m going to the moon

Never alone when they’re with me
I see two bodies; feels better with three
or even four more that I cannot see
I’m going to the moon

Going to the Moon

A song about a paladin who ends up multiclassing as a rogue.

[LYRICS]

A paladin through and through
not a soul would question you
you’d often lead us from behind
to see what all of us would do

Holy symbol with rubies, inscribed
perfect gem with a flaw in the side
held safely with care and always with flair
to contact and wield the divine

Dark trees around a warm fire
strong voices rising higher
songs being sung and tales being spun
when you would sit back and admire
[interlude]

New scars across your face
they seemed out of place
not that anyone actually said
but some calligraphy can’t be erased

A new glint within your eye
flicker of a flame that doesn’t quite die
soon I can tell things are different this time
with a dagger clenched tight by your side

Song for a Paladin

A song (songs?) I wrote for Myrd (Myrddin) on the BomBARDed Discord (bardcord) for this year's March of the Arts!  The prompt was "Something w/ minor chars - Wesley or Rhiannon preferrably," and I had already done some stuff with spider wizards from DnD podcasts so I thought I'd try something about Rihannon!  I hope you like it!

March of the Arts 2019

Rihannon's Song [Alt. Take]

Rihannon's Song

For the verses, I didn't even write out the chords, I just wrote "standard John Darnielle progression" because it's in more than a few of his songs.

[LYRICS]
Loneliness never gets any better
it just gets different
but you’ll hold on to it
just as long as you like
And every time you look into the mirror
you will see
more than one, more than two
but always less than three

And at some time that isn’t now
then you can tell
that it’s time to say no to the ghosts
you once knew well

When a sparrow chrips to you, 
a peep turned to a squawk
through the window, its beady eyes will 
watch you as you pigeon-walk
More often than not your bed begins
at the sofa just after noon
but that tired isn’t better;
afghan and pillows spell your doom

And at some time that isn’t now
then you can tell
that it’s time to say no to the ghosts
you once knew well

When the absence in your chest
it forms a hole that chills and numbs
you can’t make it any smaller
except in proportion

And at some time that isn’t now
then you can tell
that it’s time to say no to the ghosts
you once knew well

It Just Gets Different

I wrote this based on a tweet from John Darnielle (singer/songwriter of the Mountain Goats): https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1183772917013897216?s=19&fbclid=IwAR3F1pZU84Wsqi2ACeTW07f-gcgViDqYeQBiCh2-fLuIo19-edCekhN5qnI

LYRICS:

I haven’t done anything yet today
And I think that’s as far as I’m going to get
my hair’s a nest for blue jays
and my shower’s floor is far from wet
I’m not sitting by myself
Because he’s in that dusty cramped space inside my ventricles

Feels like a year since I’ve seen the sun
the vacuum cleaner sitting empty by the wall 
vacantly waiting to find out what’s to come
the dust will settle as the detritus starts to fall
But what the goblin wizard’s up to
makes his crawlspace nothing less than Tambora

Goblin Wizard in the Crawlspace of my Heart

I'm at home alone and bored because of quarantine or whatever SO I covered the same Mountain Goats song everyone covers

No Children

cover of the Mountain Goats song from Zopilote Machine (1994)

I thought it fit the fantasy vibe so

Grendel's Mother

a real-life bard who does songs about dungeons & dragons

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