We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Blood On Bookwalk

by Zanda Myrande

/

about

I have no memory of recording this, or even writing it, but I know I did. It's based on a novel of the same title by Janet M Warner, and I think I did quite well with the arrangement as well as with the lyrics. When I get to it, this will be on my next album but one, the long-awaited Owls.

lyrics

Blood On Bookwalk



Verse

Dancing the lightning, embracing the thunder

He named her and claimed her, a waif and a stray

Her heart was broken, she spoke and he heard her

A tale of foul murder, of peace torn away.



Verse

Life in the balance, tearing asunder

A Keeper, a sleeper, a prince or a slave

How could he dream that the scream that he heard then

Would bring a new burden, from beyond the grave.



Chorus

Now there's blood on Bookwalk - the dead are rising

Blood on Bookwalk - we speak their names

There's blood on Bookwalk - the past is waking

An old oathbreaking, an ancient shame.



Verse

The crystal mirror, it made him wonder

A broken token from a world long lost

He tried to read it, to feed it some power

And in that dark hour, he knew the dread cost.




Chorus

Now there's blood on Bookwalk - the dead are rising

Blood on Bookwalk - we speak their names

There's blood on Bookwalk - the past is waking

An old oathbreaking, an ancient shame.



Verse

Torture and treachery, pillage and plunder,

Cloak violence in silence, the wages of war

They did not live to forgive their deceiver,

Now the ghosts of Kniva are stirring once more.



Chorus

And there's blood on Bookwalk - the news is breaking

Blood on Bookwalk - soon all will know

There's blood on Bookwalk - the shadows are falling

But the dead are calling, and now he must go.


To undo an evil from long long ago.

credits

released March 2, 2019
Words and music by Zanda Myrande.

license

tags

about

Zanda Myrande Westbury, UK

Zanda Myrande is still recovering from the trauma of being Zander Nyrond for several decades. She has only come out online at this point, for reasons which may be apparent from the picture above, but she proudly embraces her trans identity while still giving house room to Zander and the rest of the deadbeats who populate her head.

Lives in Wiltshire and has better friends than she deserves.
... more

contact / help

Contact Zanda Myrande

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Zanda Myrande, you may also like: