- Music and lyrics by Mark Geisler
©
1984
Thoryan Music
-
- ~ for Jodi - friend
and teacher ~
-
- NOTES: Written
May 1984. This song is
a true story, and it was an incredible song for me.
There is more written into this song than even I
know. It works on so
very many levels, and I still learn new things from it even today.
I began this song with different words entirely on a
different subject. As
sometimes happens, I liked the melody but the words sat dead in
the water and went nowhere. One
day the words "And in the lights of Lothlorien" came
into my head, and the cosmic floodgates were opened.
The words just wouldn't stop.
I had a very busy day that day running here and there on a
hundred errands - and everywhere I went I just kept writing the
words on whatever was available.
By the end of the day I had dozens of little scrap pieces
of paper spread all over my living room floor that I fit together
to make this song. This
was the first major occurrence of channeling song energy for me.
It felt like I had aligned with some cosmic current out
there that allowed the words to just pour in from the top of my
head, through my hand and out onto the page.
I suspect that part of the reason for this was because
there was a lot of love written into this song.
I've found over the years that my best songs are the ones
where love is really flowing - for the people they're for or
about, the places they occurred, and the events that happened.
When the songs are written with love - they work.
This is about my time spent with Jodi and the Grove of the
Unicorn. Though that
time is long since past and she has now passed on, much love and
warm memories still remain.
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- I am a child; I'm
traveling a road
- My heart is wild
- my destiny unknown
- I've traveled
far, a thousand doors I've tried
- Enchanted star and Mystery my
guide
- The weave, the
web, the water laced in white
- They flow, they
ebb - the currents of my life
- Have led me to a
place between two worlds
- I'd heard of that
- the rose that lies unfurled…
-
- Among the thorns
I lost my sense of time
- My spirit worn,
my reason out of rhyme
- I thought I heard
a laughter in the trees
- And there she was
- I fell upon my knees
- She said
"Arise! Be
welcome to the Grove!"
- She kissed my
eyes - reality unwove...
-
- And in the lights
of Lothlorien
- I came alive and
found my dreams again
- With the Lady of
the Elven...
- There the trees
seemed to glow
- With leaves of
silver and gold
- And no one there
ever once grew old...
- 'Til I came
there...
-
- Then she led me
to some water shining fair
- She said
"Look deep - but only if you dare
- To gaze into the
mirror of the pool
- The waters there
reflect all that is true"
- I looked - I
stared…enraptured there in awe
- Amazed, confused
at what it was I saw
- Then suddenly the
picture there was clear
- I fought - I
cried…I froze within my fear
- The one I saw was
one such as me
- Who traveled
on…and knew that it was he
- Who bore the task
to end the reign of night
- To tear off the
mask and thus restore the light
-
- Oh, am I the one
to carry this thing through?
- Or am I one who's
playing the fool?
- Oh, help me -
tell me what I must do!
- Galadriel -
please tell me the Truth
- That mine is not
this thing that I dread
- She held out her
hand to me
- And this is what
she said...
-
- "This ring
of light is one left of three
- But soon the
night is all there will be here
- Time has brought
the end of our age
- A change of
thought - a turn of the page
- And we must now
find our way to the sea
- But you are one
who carries the key
- And we will fade
away into the west
- But you must stay
and carry out your quest"
- Oh, Lady - I
can't believe what I hear
- Lothlorien...it
can't disappear
- Galadriel -
Forever is here…
- She smiled at me
through one silver tear...
-
- Then it was me
all alone left standing there
- And all that I
had known vanished into the air
- I couldn't find
it anywhere...
- There was no
trace left of her
- Or the hills of
green and lavender
- Where I thought
they once had been
- They now were
gone...
