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Another theme song for Valkyrie! She deserves at least two. Composed and recorded in the span of six days during the 2020 Composers' Online Institute, then revised less than 48 hours before the release of this album, it is intended as the second credits theme. The chorus and nonsense vocals in the bridge are meant to resemble a hymn to the Faceless Ones, and are also a salute to my biggest compositional role model, Yuki Kajiura.

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She stumbled to a world unknown
And found her feet (mark of the strong)
Her eyes opened to secrets lost
and saw the magic that was there all along

A flame danced in her open palm
The magic grew (cannot reverse)
Sharp wind off the storming seas
Storming ocean winds blow
recounted legends of an old family curse

Dark gods restless again
Darkness falling, reaching, calling out
Scheming dread revenge
from the torment of their plight
Sleeping horrors of the Earth unite
Hark! Merciless song
Demons gather, screaming, hungering
Wakens faceless fears
in the dying of the light
Forging tokens of eternal spite

The anger of the banished gods
Still it burns (never relent)
Their call echoes past nature’s bounds,
The shattered whispers of the Ancients’ lament

The lightning, black as caves’ abyss
strikes to its mark (shadows’ rebirth)
Fell warnings of fallen kin
brothers’ warnings echo
Return the sceptre to the dark of the Earth

Dark gods restless again
Darkness falling, reaching, calling out
Scheming dread revenge
from the torment of their plight
Sleeping horrors of the Earth unite
Hark! Merciless song
Demons gather, screaming, hungering
Wakens faceless fears
in the dying of the light
Forging tokens of eternal spite

Blood of the Ancients! Destiny of woe!
A destiny of woe!
Ah! Heroine fighting for the future
Warrior fighting for her life

Lache, imai salio remi
Aya, liwani aliosta

A memory that she’d never seen
Lodged in her mind (trick of the light?)
Old magic runs through her veins,
Leads her to join in her ancestors’ fight

A power she can never hold
her truest name (it holds her)
Cold sigils burn heart, flesh, soul,
Magic symbols burn soul
And they will never be once more as they were

Dark gods restless again
Darkness falling, reaching, calling out
Scheming dread revenge
from the torment of their plight
Sleeping horrors of the Earth unite
Hark! Merciless song
Demons gather, screaming, hungering
Wakens faceless fears
in the dying of the light
Forging tokens of eternal spite

credits

from A Fabulous Soundtrack Indeed: Music for Skulduggery Pleasant, released October 23, 2021
Music, lyrics, and vocals: Symphony Glow
Flute: Trudi Anderson
Guitar: Brandon Bae

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Composer and classically trained vocalist.

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