I'll Be Always In The Dark Now
I fall to my knees on the ground where you lay
And whisper that it can't be true
Your breath doesn't stir, your eyes are a-glaze
Your face is unnatural of hue
I call in a voice so helpless and frail
And muffled by oncoming tears
But nothing can wake a body so pale
I've realised the worst of my fears
You're not coming back, no way and no how
So I'll be always in the dark now
When out from her hole the spider did crawl
I tried to stand strong and stand brave
And drive her I did, back to her foul hall
But your life did not manage to save
I've broken a promise, the worst one of all
And for that I will not be forgiven:
That as long as I stood, you should not fall
And my heart will forever be riven
My spirit once fearless is finally cowed
And I'll be always in the dark now
If only you'd listened when I warned you of Slinker
And spoke of the worries that tailed me
For true, though I've never been much of a thinker
It's seldom my instincts have failed me
Where did he run, that Gollum, that cheat?
His name brings my blood to a boil
And if ever again our two paths should meet
My eyes' fury will make him recoil
His is a crime that I will not allow
To bring on the darkness I'm always in now
But Gollum has fled, to where I can't guess
To nurse the sharp pains that I dealt him
How could we have landed in such a great mess?
If only my strength could have felled him
Though vengeance on him would be sweet and be just
My master cannot be forsaken
I cannot fly forth to indulge a bloodlust
Lest my dear Frodo's body be taken
I'll stay with him here under gathering cloud
And share in the darkness he's drifting in now
If there were a way I could join you in death
I'd do it without hesitation
To lead you down paths all mortals must tread
I'd make it my last obligation
The point of the sword seems to call out my name
The abyss opens up at my feet
I tire of playing this cruel, wicked game
And gladly my ending would meet
Would death not be better than this bottomless slough?
The terrible dark that I'm always in now
But that is a death without courage or glory
That thinking just does not befit you
For if you remove yourself from the story
The innocents will all go down with you
To lay down the Quest while I still draw breath
Is not why the Council did send me
I must trust to the road, not the release of death
Though my shadow alone should befriend me
With hard resolve must I now honour my vow
And weather the darkness I'm always in now
I must onward go by uncertain roads
And pray that you are not despoiled
It's time now I shouldered that greatest of loads
For the purpose we so long have toiled
The Ring I may carry for but a short while
And with it, its burden and strife
But putting between us so many long miles
Is a weight I will carry for life
And with a last kiss on your cold, lifeless brow
I go to the source of the dark I'm in now