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Abandoned: Baldur alone

from Abandoned: Teaching Collection by Sassafrass

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VERSE 1:
After strife I bring smiles of
The family that strives beside.
After war I bring children to
Grow strong.
After frost I bring colors of
The summertime to come again.
After dark I bring patience for the dawn.

While I grew I saw summers growing
Stronger with the mounting years. When I played I felt nature playing too.
While I lived I thought nothing was too
Frozen for my warmth to heal.
When I died, then,
Lady, I met you.

Grieving World
Souls too many to tell.
Even memories of Summer sun turn Harsh and black as
Hel I see
Now what grown men
Fear and every
Child but me has always known I’d never
Seen true dark before.
And now your father has me Join you in the land of the

CHORUS:
Abandoned men, abandoned place,
Abandoned world, abandoned race,
Abandoned you, abandoned me,
Abandoned all to the Hel of the abandoned.

VERSE 2:
Blackest World,
Cold and distant and strange.
Even thinking freezes
Year by year, but
Still can’t fade away.
Yes, I knew while Valhalla held
The chosen in my father’s care
There were limits to whom Valkyries could
Choose
There were many hopeful voices that fell
Silent with a final prayer
But I never saw the consequences
Like you do
Like I do now.

Only one end
Patient ’til when
Ragnarok comes

Father always planning for
Tomorrow not today

Father I trust, you did the best
The Norns allow.
He granted you dominion over
Those who fall away
Never thinking I would
Follow them down

To you who
Who I knew as
Nothing but a stranger’s distant name
A curse, an enemy, a memory
The souls up there had
Nothing but hate for you, so
Glad to escape you and
Ready to face you
Down when the darkness
Comes, but those down here
Who were so near
And tried so hard
And fell so far

Down into the dark, where even I fall blind without my
Light, but learn to
See inside your
Shadow and your sorrow and your night
Father would say
There was no other way
But now I understand how
Children, mothers, elders, brothers
Peaceful folk could hate us so that
They would rise at Ragnarok and
Join our foe! ’cause we

CHORUS:
Abandoned them, abandoned place,
Abandoned world, abandoned race,
Abandoned you, abandoned me,
Abandoned all to the Hel of the Abandoned

VERSE 3:
And I knew
There were races that were
Older than the worlds we made.
There were Reasons that my uncle sat alone.
There were monsters in the darkness that
My brothers had helped seal away
But we never called you “cousin” only

Enemy
How could I see beyond the labels and the war?
Which must come, so certain since our fathers made it so.
Fathers made us go

Here, near Dangers that breed so
Close in his promises and
Prophecies and lies!

Heat, his leaking rage, its lava creep,
That always churns and never sleeps
My father waits to see him weep
But he waits only for the war.

I could hear when my
Father’s envoy begged you, and you
Dictated the
Terms of my release. You asked
Everything alive and dead to
Weep as one for me. You were
Testing them weren’t you?
Asking consent from the
Dead in your Hel and the
Living who may yet fall down Into the dark where so
Many will come

For if I rejoin the living world, forgiving and forget
And the stones and seas and father too renounce their grim revenge And forgiveness heals Yggdrasil, and peace stays strong

Then to warm the fleeting living we Condemn the frozen dead to wait on And give up Ragnarok
For me!

There they wept, every ghost.
Every soul in your great lost host

Just so I can warm the living
They consent, the patient dead

Every
Child, every man, every
Root, every tree, every
Bird, every beast, every
Ghost, every god except one

Father, I still Trust you but don’t understand
Why you no longer Try to stop the war

Which must come, so
Certain since our fathers made it so,
Certain since our fathers won’t let go.

I think on our fathers, the choices they made
And I almost believe there was no other way,
But we wait and we watch and the anger it fades
still there is no hope of rescue until both our fathers change

FINAL CHORUS:
And they abandoned us, abandoned place,
Abandoned world, abandoned race,
Abandoned you, abandoned me,
Abandoned all to the Hel when we
Accepted death, accepted war,
No longer try to change its course,
Abandoned life, abandoned hope,
Abandoned all to the Hel of the Abandoned

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from Abandoned: Teaching Collection, released January 4, 2015

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Sassafrass performs Ada Palmer's original a cappella polyphonic folk music, complex pieces with lively narratives and fantasy, mythology or science fiction themes.

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