Please enjoy the music, and if you’re inclined, add your own bit.
I got tagged by the amazeriffic @elenothar to post 7 lines of a WIP… but (confession time) I haven’t started on ch42, and probably won’t until after next week. Work is MADNESS atm. MADNESS I TELL YOU.
So here is a composition I have been working on for the last couple of weeks? I am hoping that 16 bars equates to seven lines… um. Anyway.
It’s called Light on the Horizon, and this section is right at the end. I am not giving away the lyrics juuuuust yet!
I am indeed a muso! Singer, opera and musical theatre, to be precise, though I also do choral arrangements and yadda yadda. But these days I don’t do as much performance. Small person came along, and her needs take precedence. Anyway, I also have my education degree in addition to my BMus, ysee, so nowadays I’m working as a singing and choral teacher in a number of schools 🙂
I learned violin for 14 years as well, though nowadays I’m woefully out of practice!!!
(originally posted here, lyrics reproduced under the cut heeeeey)
[BILBO] Writing out the story in the Red Book every day I’m keeping the lamp lit while your light is away He’s on the other side of twilight, He tried to take back what was his, But now the nights are growing darker, and it is what it is.
Love doesn’t discriminate Between the sinners And the saints It takes and it takes and it takes And we keep loving anyway We laugh and we cry And we break And we make our mistakes And if there’s a reason beyond my pride That I stayed by his side Then I’m willing to wait for it I’m willing to wait for it
My grandfather was a Thain and a great tactician But there are things of which the Shire has no suspicion My mother loved adventure My father commanded respect When they died they left no instructions Just a legacy to protect
[BILBO/DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY]
Death doesn’t discriminate Between the sinners And the saints It takes and it takes and it takes And we keep living anyway We rise and we fall And we break And we make our mistakes And if there’s a reason I’m still alive When everyone who loves me has died I’m willing to wait for it I’m willing to wait for it
[DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY ] Wait for it Wait for it Wait for it
[BILBO] Nothing is left in my life I can control
[DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY] Wait for it Wait for it Wait for it Wait for it
[BILBO] I am disreputable, I am now a fairy tale
[DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY] Wait for it Wait for it Wait for it Wait for it
[BILBO] Always falling behind or there too late
[DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY] Wait for it Wait for it Wait for it Wait for it
[BILBO] Now all I have left is to grow old and wait
[DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY] Wait Wait Wait
[BILBO] Frodo faces an endless uphill climb
[ DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY] Climb Climb Climb
[BILBO] He has to save us all He is so very small
[ DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY ] Small Small
[BILBO] The Enemy’s pace is relentless He wastes no time
[ DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY ] Time Time Time
[BILBO] Still Frodo answers the call.
The Ring doesn’t hesitate It exhibits no restraint It takes and it takes and it takes And it will exploit any way It eats you alive from inside and it gnaws and it breaks And if there’s a reason It came to me when none could foresee, then damn it all —
[BILBO/DEAD DWARF PEANUT GALLERY] I’m willing to wait for it I’m willing to wait for it…
Life doesn’t discriminate Between the sinners and the saints It takes and it takes and it takes And we keep living anyway We rise and we fall and we break And we make our mistakes
And if there’s a reason I’m still alive When so many have died Then I’m willin’ to—
Aw Yiss 