Beneath the Stars We Sang An Elven Anthem (with elegant dwarven shade)

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The elves were me a tease now about us having a song with dwarves and and not

Lyrics

[Intro - Instrumental, solo wooden flute, gentle harp arpeggios, distant choir humming, Key: Em, BPM: 80, Time: 6/8]

[Verse 1 - Solo female soprano, intimate and ancient, Em - G - D - Em]
Before the sun had learned to rise
Before the moon was set in place
We opened up our newborn eyes
And starlight fell upon our face

We spoke the first words ever heard
We named the rivers and the trees
The wind itself learned every word
And carried them on evening breeze

[Pre-Chorus - Tenor joins soprano in harmony, building, C - D - Em - Bm | C - D - Em]
And in the dark before the dawn
Before the lesser lights were drawn
We sang

[Chorus - Full mixed choir, swelling strings, harp and flute, BPM: 90, Em - G - D - Bm | C - G - D - Em]
Beneath the stars we sang the world awake
Our voices rang through silver wood and silver lake
Before the hammer fell, before the anvil's cry
We wove our music through the sky
And we are singing still

[Verse 2 - Soprano lead with soft choir underneath, slightly more confident, Em - G - D - Em]
Our blades were forged in moonlit flame
No furnace roar, no bellowed heat
We whisper steel and speak its name
And what we craft needs no repeat

Our towers rise like morning light
Our cloaks are sewn from dusk and dew
We do not dig through endless night
And call the darkness something new

[Pre-Chorus - Full choir building, strings intensifying, C - D - Em - Bm | C - D - Em]
We do not shake the earth and boast
Of what was buried, what was lost
We sing

[Chorus - Full mixed choir, bigger now, more strings, BPM: 90, Em - G - D - Bm | C - G - D - Em]
Beneath the stars we sang the world awake
Our voices rang through silver wood and silver lake
Before the hammer fell, before the anvil's cry
We wove our music through the sky
And we are singing still

[Bridge - Slower, BPM: 75, solo soprano, vulnerable and melancholy, harp only, Am - Em - G - D | Am - Em - Bm]
But there is this — a truth we bear
That joy and sorrow share one thread
We watch the forests thin to air
We sing the names of all our dead

The mortal races burn so bright
And fade like embers in the rain
We hold their memory in our light
And carry what they can't retain

[Build - Choir enters one voice at a time, strings swell, drums enter softly, rising]

[Final Chorus - Full choir and orchestra, BPM: 100, triumphant and luminous, key lifts to G major, G - Bm - D - Em | C - G - D - G]
BENEATH THE STARS WE SANG THE WORLD AWAKE
OUR VOICES RANG THROUGH SILVER WOOD AND SILVER LAKE
WHEN EVERY FORGE HAS COOLED AND EVERY AIL GONE DRY
OUR SONG WILL ECHO THROUGH THE SKY
AND WE WILL STILL BE SINGING

[Outro - Choir fading to solo soprano, harp and flute only, decrescendo]
Still be singing...
Beneath the stars...
We sang...

[End - Solo flute, fading into silence]

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