[centre][img]https://i.imgur.com/ZZ7IHOU.png?1[/img][h1]The Ballad of Thunder's Fall[/h1]

Oh where are you going, my love with the mask
Oh where are you going tonight?
I'm going, my lovely, to take up my task
By ol' Gibbou's radiant light

By ol' Gibbou's radiant young light, my love
I'm off from your lips and your arms
And with a spring in my step and the moon high above
I am taking up my task

And why are you donning that mask, my love, 
Oh why are you wearing the mask?
I'm wearing the mask, my love, my love,
'Cause that's what humans all ask

My face, my love, is ugly and glum
And causes them to cry
It makes them cry, my love, my love
And quickly- oh! they die

And so my lovely, I'm wearing a mask
'Cause I'm ugly, grey, and glum
And if I'm to do what I must do
I must wear it or be dumb

But oh, my love, my sweet, my life
Where are you going tonight?
Where are you going and leaving your wife
When the deathsun's out of sight?

I'm going, my love, I'm off to the fight
I'm off to the mountain's far
In the shade of the moon and the bosom of trees
I'm off to the raging war

You're off to the raging war, my love
And leaving me alone
In the bosom of trees, my love, my love
And I all on my own

Oh don't be long, my love, my love
Don't be a long time gone
For if the great old sun should rise, my dear
I surely will become stone

Without you here I would rather be
Some dust or seaside stone
So oh be quick, and oh be fast
Come with the rising sun

Oh I will not be long my dear
My heart will flutter home
Oh if I lie, my dear, my love
In earth, to you I'll roam

I'm off from your lips, my dear, and your arms
I'm off to call Thunder down
I'm off from your kisses and all of your charms
To kill him with my frown

And then I'll be back, oh then I'll be back
And then I'll be back my dear
With a mask on my back and a grin on my lips
And a heart of great joy and cheer

Oh then you'll be back, oh then you'll be back
Oh then you'll be back, my dear
The moon will be out and the night will be black
When you return my dear

Oh the night will be black and the moon will be out
When Thunder falls my dear
And he'll fall at my frown and he'll fall at my shout
And then I'll be back my dear

Oh then you'll be back, my dear only then
And I will be waiting here
With stony gaze and stony eye
If 'twere ten thousand year

It 'twere ten thousand year my love
Ten thousand and a day
Beneath the moon I'll wait for you
Beneath that old sun's ray

Oh where are you going, my love with the mask
Oh where are you going tonight?
I'm going, my lovely, to take up my task
By ol' Gibbou's radiant light

By ol' Gibbou's radiant young light, my love
I'm off from your lips and your arms
And with a spring in my step and the moon high above
I am taking up my task[/centre]

[hider=Summary]A ballad recording sadly the farewell of a draug to his beloved as he goes off to up his task of protecting life. He's of to the mountains to fight the trolls who have been killing, rather than protecting, life. Draugs, generally, can now be expected to take up a more active role in counteracting the actions of their treacherous kin.[/hider]