Dark Hair Down

Down

It was his neck or her wrist

Clean nails on iron fist

Dreams of peace beyond the wall

She’d cry out for mercy but she had no voice at all

Here

Here and now it ends

This quiet victory

Her promise she would make amends

He lay not yet cold on the ground

This day of all days she would wear her dark hair down

This time the wheel has come around

Free of her cage she crows with a fearless sound

“Your fists can’t hurt me now”

A fearless sound

She’ll wear her dark hair down

Down

And blood brought the answer that time could not provide

Scars that read like home could hide

Her prison swallowed everything but piercing open eyes

She proudly bore the mark

Where his brand had met her head

She spat “The coward could not kill what was already dead”

Dark hair down

This time the wheel has come around

Free of her cage

A fearless sound

Stand and fight

This is my salvation

Blood for blood my love

With a fearless sound

“Your fists can’t hurt me now”

A fearless sound

She’ll wear her dark hair down

Blood for blood my love

As a child he had known River’s End. He had tasted tyranny and been swallowed by the darkness of a cage

A thief’s words fall on deaf ears too eager to flee to the prison of home. He knelt by the shrine and faced his end