I found a bottle in a pile of bones and popped it open
It held a big ol’ scroll that just kept on un-a-rollling
Til it rolled off where I’d seen quite not
To the corners of my dreams and
All the places I forgot
I read the words on the big ol’ scroll
But didn’t know them
They looked dark like blood 
I had to find someone and show em
So I started winding up the scroll
And man it took a year to roll
I was singing like a magpie
And tunneling like a mole

I had to go to where the dragons go
It started snowing
There was fire all along that road
Where I was going
But I hiked and hiked
Til my feet did stop
Til my lungs did fail
And my body did drop
But I made it on up that road
And started showing 
All the people that very scroll 
That kept unrolling
But the scroll just kept on going
And my head felt like exploding
So I said fuck it and I cut it 
But then it’s demons started showing

The scroll started sensing
Its other half had gone missing 
I could feeling start to tense up 
(It got tense so tense!)
Then it started to wrap around me
Closed my eyes up then it bound me
Heard the townsfolk shout like
There was fire in their hair
But by the time my legs were kicking
The whole town had gone a missing
All was silent save the sound
Of the scroll a laying twitching
Like a scratch that ain’t for itching
I hooked the scroll like I was fishing
Picked it up right where it lay 
And continued on my mission

I found the forest mouth 
And traced its cliffs of green
I scaled the crystal peaks
Rode their surrounding seas
I found the pine tree king
Oh how he loved to sing 
His deep voice spreading
Out across the verdant sea

For years I trekked 
Looking for secrets kept
Trying to find a soul who knew the scroll
But no wizard witch nor hiding hole
Time crept like an ice cube left
And I grew tired of the asking
I wanted peace and sun to bask in
Found a whole in the hill top 
Deep inside the trees
Met a pretty little wood elf
Got down on my knee
I remember every blessed thing
And I remember hearing the sound of wings

The night they took you away from me
Broke me in a hundred ways
The night they took you away from me
I became death
Certain and absolute

They came in like lightning
They came in full force
Took the roof off the house 
And stole you in the course of it
Before I opened my eyes you were gone
I was surrounded by men
And bedeviled by haunts
I could hear you screaming
From up above where the Crow Queen flew
I’m sorry love
What else could I do

There was gnashing of teeth
And breaking of bones
I was one against fifty 
A will cast in stone
I became devil 
And I became night
I became vengeance
The passing of light
I could hear their hearts pounding 
Like big Dwarven drums
And I sought them out and
I silenced the thrum
I moved through their bodies
Like water through snow
My blade leaking blood
And my head leaking smoke

Well I left the next morning
Grabbed the scroll and my sword 
It would be my last journey

I arrived at the city gates
Stone giants on either side
I asked what to make of your fate
Gate guard told me come inside

I was taken through town on neat stone roads
Past merchants and homes and watchful souls
They brought me to an elder in a dark black cloak
In a house up the hill back away from folk
He told me of a girl lost long ago
Offered by her village to the forest’s hold
And how that little girl did preen and grow
Later only seen as great clouds of crows
And when the crowing crows swooped down so low
Villages were razed leaving only smoke
Aho aho aho 

He said son you’re gonna wait 
Til the rising sun done come
And be off and up and running 
When the cock cries once
You got to make your way 
Past Giant's Mouth and keep making
Til you find yourself in forests south
There’s a tall wind going
where you’re blowing
There’s a tall wind blowing 
where I’m going

I never wanted anything 
As much as I wanted you
Back in my arms
I was obsessive at best
Trying to come to your rescue
It’s the type of thing that breaks you
If you fail when it tests you 
I’d already taken too long
But I’m still writing the song
I’d already taken too long
But I’m still writing the song
I’d already taken too long
But I’m still writing the song
I’d already taken too long
But I’m still writing the song

I was quick like light as I moved from the city
How my horse did fly just 
Running towards an ending
Birds lined the trees my whole way
Black feathers like a light rain
A well lit path of corvidae
We went down through the valleys 
And up through the peaks
I cast a spell to keep us moving
As the days became weeks and then
Soon after I started hearing things
There was a voice in the back of my mind
Just saying open me

Open Me!

I couldn’t take it for long though
The voice made it hard so 
My bag developed a soft glow
I took the clasp off the scroll 

And I just let it roll

There is  a pressure in my head 
Its getting so big
I swore I wouldn’t but it’s different 
Baby you went
I don’t know how to fight 
A kingdom with just two hands
(I’ll track you by blood scent
And bay in our private tongue)
The scroll was different
I was different 
I was desperate
I couldn’t read it 
I just spoke it 
Voice a low pitch
My vision swirled 
Like an algae bloom unfocused
(I can hear your heart sounds
Beating like a giant drum)
I was like light inside a bottle
That got broken
I split refracted 80 ways
I was awoken
New power coursing through me
Each breath an explosion
(You shine like a beacon 
Through layers of shielded earth)
When I came to 
There was a crater formed around me
The scroll was gone 
I had its words all up and down me
My head felt strange
But I could feel its power pounding
(There’s no way to stop this
I’m rabid for you my love)

Ain’t no way ain’t no way
That didn’t happen just now
By the gods did I just say?
All those words? Was that me?
I can remember things that I’ve never seen
It’s like I’ve lived a life of dreams
And they all were me

There was an old oak tree
Barely holding it leaves
Then a hot hot wind
Did away with its skin
And to its a left a smoking crater
Where I lay enroute to save her
So it went

And it went on I lay there
Reeling til the light of early dawn
Then got the feeling if I'm alive
Then well I might as well go on
And I had power running through me
I was sizzling with song
I named the witch

And said
You can't hide you can't run
Oh no I think you lost this one
Oh no I think you lost this one
Oh no I think you lost this one
You can't hide you can't run
Oh no I think you lost this one
Oh no I think you lost this one
Oh no I think you lost this one...