Enjoy this performance of Lament for Lost Gods. It originally appeared in More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home, released in 1987. Buy Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/204205/More-Leaves-from-the-Inn-of-the-Last-Home-2e?affiliate_id=50797

https://youtu.be/3b8dOnaAW3s

Vocals and guitar performed by andresarcv.

About Lament for Lost Gods

This is one of the most heart-rending songs I have collected recently. As far as I know it exists only in this form and so was probably composed soon after the Chaos War when the gods left Krynn. I found it amid the rubble of a house belonging to Berrenclarnosti, elven scholar and musician. He was believed murdered a year after the Chaos War ended by thieves who coveted the metals in some of the instruments he collected.

There are few indications in the music related to performing this song: I have left it so intentionally because the key, the phrasing, and the words say everything necessary. Give your ear to the song, and the music will deliver the rest.

Mirrashar, Elven Bard

Lyrics

Who will look down on us,

Who will intercede?

Who will answer questions,

help in time of need?

Who will guide our fairing

forth to near or far?

Who will take an interest

in flood, in storm, in war?

The gods we knew are vanished,

never more to still

the pleas of aching voices

so lone, so pained, so shrill.

Is there any hope left?

Will there soon appear

a dawn undimmed by sorrow,

a dawn unmasked by fear

When we can be encouraged

by guardians in the skies

who sing to us of succor,

who promise us a scrye

of things eternal

All alone abandoned

we cry pleading for one bright hand

owned by an immortal

when gods return to Krynn.