Requiem for a Golden Wood

[bnewman]

Just as in the source song, the Queen of the Golden Wood "wish[es] the power to stop it all could rest within my hands", and yet, in the end, "I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel".

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Lullaby for a Weary World" by TJ Burnside Clapp

 

/ G Em C D / / / G Em CD G /

 

I wonder how these trees can stand beneath the growing Shadow

(Peace, my Golden Wood)

And I know the time is drawing near when elder things must pass away,

And I wish the power to stop it all could rest within my hands

 

I've seen the works my people fashioned fade and be forgotten

(Peace, my Golden Wood)

If I were offered just one chance, the strength to hold the Shadow back,

The craft to make this refuge last, I'd take it if I could

 

/ G Em C D / G Em C -D / G Em G CD / G Em C G / C D G - /

 

Make me a watchful eye to guard my golden wood

Make me a cunning mind to count her falling leaves

Make me a shining thread of song to weave and bind

And make me a ring of power to work my will

So I can keep my Golden Wood in peace

 

And yet, I know what must be done, lest all should fall to Darkness

(Peace, my Golden Wood)

Still, I weep for all my hands have made, and all the beauty they've sustained,

For if the One should be destroyed, the Three as well must fade

 

Make me a watchful eye to guard my golden wood...

 

We left behind a timeless land to cling to shining treasure

(Peace, my Golden Wood)

If I should try to hold you here, against the tide of fading years,

What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a sea?