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Lachlan's Lament

from Shadowland by Joe Covenant

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Ah... The first of the songs I wrote for The Fianna.

The Lachlan story is worth a few sentences more than most. To tell it ALL here would be a little monumentous, but I'll try to sum it up.

To summarise...
Lachlan was a long time member of the Ragh Hrafen Fianna.
Jacob was also one of the Fianna but had been made a Captain within the Wolves faction.
Tegid... Well... Tegid is somethng of an enigma...

It had come to the fore that a plan had been hatched by Jacob's Uncle, of all people, to go back in time and kill Jacob as a child, so that he would never grow up and become the respected Captain that he was.

Tegid made it possible for Lachlan to go back in time and stop this attack from happening.
Lachlan took the burden on and did indeed prevent the attack. However, in the process, he was wounded by a blade that had been coated in poison.

Lachlan was between the place he had been journeying to, and the place he was to meet with Tegid to return back to our time.

He was aware that he could not make it back to either one, so decided to sit down under a tree and write letters of farewell to those who mattered to him.

This song is based on those letters...

lyrics

I am cooled by the motion of a passing breeze,
there are few days remembered have been fine as these.
And this tree gives me shelter from the open sky,
but I am merely mortal and all men must die.

It was cowardice and treachery that laid me low,
who had not steel or bravery to face their foe.
For they took me with poison painted to the blade,
leaving darkness and venom moving through my veins.

In these last passing moments ‘neath the fading sun,
I recall all the battles and the deeds I’ve done,
But the proudest of moments I have met today,
saving you from a kinsman to deny the fates.

Do not grieve for me Jacob, this was meant to be,
tho’ the death that was stalking you has taken me.
Now you’ll grow to be Captain and to lead your men
but it’s hard to believe we shall not meet again.

Now the circle’s completed and the cause is won.
You will come into Manhood as your Father’s son.
Now our lives are forever with our fates entwined.
For we are merely mortal and all men must die.

Now I feel life within me ebbing fast away
and I know I’ll be leaving ere the close of day,
I have died at a coward’s hands, a lonely fate,
for it bars me forever from Valhalla’s gate.

If I’m gone faithful Tegid, you must go alone,
bury me where you find me, do not take me home.
I will sit here and turn my face towards the sky,
for I am merely mortal and all men must die.

We remember you Lachlan and await the day
we will fight for your spirit and to Odin pray
it will soar to Valhalla, blaze across the sky,
for we are merely mortal and all men must die.

We are all merely mortal and all men…
Must die.

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from Shadowland, released June 12, 2007
Everything - Jøsef Lambsen
(aka Joe 'Covenant' Lamb)

Written and Produced by Joe Lamb

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