A Word About the Tune: I'd like to tell you what the tune to this is, but I can't—because it's an original, and I don't know how to write music. Or play an instrument. I can only sing, but I'm far too self-conscious to put an a cappella version online. Someday maybe I'll record something, when I learn how to do music on the computer...
The Legend of the Burned Tower
by ShinyAeon
In days of long ago, upon a brazen tower bright,
A Legend came to earth within a rainbow blaze of light.
It came to reach the people there, and hear them in return;
So many came from far and wide, to listen, speak, and learn.
But when humans come together in numbers large and strong,
Sometimes is born a sickness that has plagued our species long.
Call it greed, or call it fear, or names unspoken still;
It grows wherever power dwells unbound by human will.
And the fire roared inside
As the city burned with rage,
And a fury was ignited
That nothing could assuage...
And we won't now see a time
Like those golden former days,
For what can heal the trust that greed betrays?
So they marched upon the tower, but of their quarry were denied
And the innocents before them flew and sheltered there inside
And besieging it, they waited for the Legend to return
But it wasn't long before the flames of war began to burn
And the fire roared inside
As the Tower burned with rage,
And a fury was ignited
That nothing could assuage...
And we won't now see a time
Like those golden former days,
For what can heal the trust that greed betrays?
Sometimes the gods are sleeping, or perhaps they look away
For though they saved the others, three brave lives were lost that day
And though new fates were granted them, their trust has been undone
To only be reborn when all our hearts shall beat as one
And the fire roared inside
As the tower burned with rage,
And a fury was ignited
That nothing could assuage...
But we may yet see a time
Like those golden former days,
For love can heal the trust that greed betrays.
Yes, only love can heal what greed betrays...