Der neue, bisher unveröffentlichte ELVENKING Song `Ethel` schließt sich thematisch dem bekannten “Reader of the Runes” Universum an. Die Band feiert seine Premiere als Lyricvideo.
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“`Ethel` was written during the long songwriting session of the second and third chapters of the “Reader of the Runes” chronicle , when we were all stuck in our homes during the COVID pandemic .
Starting from a violin melody proposed by Lethien the song developed in one of the characteristic acoustic jig as we collected in the album “Two Tragedy Poets…and a Caravan of Weird Figures” back in 2008 and through all Elvenking discography. Ethereal, dreaming and romantic the song introduces better the mysterious character of Ethel we have already glimpsed through the ROTR story and – as “The Moon and Magic” – links the second chapter to the next and final one.”
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Lyrics:
Adrift between the pure innocence
And the wuthering waves of needed defence
She has come to enlighten November dusks
She has come, oh Ethel, the nymphs with her basked
The leaves foretold she’d come in a whirl
The twigs of trees
Twitched and twirled
She has come to heighten our poor sentiments
She has come, oh Luna, ethereal descent
Within the heart of a mid-summer night
You are drumming the rhythm
The dance of time
Within the arms of a gentle wind
You are wavering forever in the midst of a dream
Wohoo
Forged into the branches of oaks
Cladded with Ivy tunic of gold
Like a stardust fall
A gift from the skies
A pure soul sent in a world full of lies
Within the heart of a mid-summer night
You are drumming the rhythm
The dance of time
Within the arms of a gentle wind
You are wavering forever in the midst of a dream
Within the heart of a mid-summer night
You are drumming the rhythm
The dance of time
Within the arms of a gentle wind
You are wavering forever in the midst of a dream