Brass Buttons - Howard Shore

Brass buttons, green silks, and silver shoes Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues And tiny golden pins that she wore up in her hair Brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes My mind was small, and then it grew My thoughts known only by a few A dream much too real To be leaned against too long And all the time I guess she knew Her words still dance inside my head Her comb still lies beside my bed But the sun comes up without her It doesn't know she's gone If it remembers nothing that she said Brass buttons, green silks, and silver shoes Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues And tiny golden pins that she wore up in her hair Brass buttons, green silks, and silver shoes

Ú i vethed nâ i onnad Si boe ú-dhanna Ae ú-esteli, esteliach nad Nâ boe ú i Estelio han, estelio han, estelio Estelio han, estelio veleth

Set me free Is this the place of my undoing? Set me free Show me the way from this place Take me away through the darkness Numb my pain, all I know is Suffering, one foot in the grave Bury the hatchet Another nail in the casket My blood turns to ice Beneath these barren skies A glimpse of light shimmers This time you guide the way through oblivion This trail of thorns leads on, get me out of this maze This labyrinthian hell quakes Set me free Before I'm lost in the dark Hopeless devoured by the shadows of my wake The light slowly turning away from me Is this the place of my undoing? Shine on me, illuminate this crepuscular feeling Show me the way from this place Take me away through the darkness All I am is all I'll ever be All that's left, melancholy Bury the hatchet Another nail in the casket My blood turns to ice Beneath these barren skies A glimpse of light shimmers This time you guide the way through oblivion This trail of thorns leads on, get me out of this maze This labyrinthian hell bellows I can see the way out from the disconnect closing Illuminate this godless space and pull me out Liberate these ruins Liberate these ruins I've become Set me free Is this the place of my undoing? Set me free Illuminate the crepuscular feeling

Solo [by Elisabeth Fraser] in Quenya: Ar sindarnóriello mornie caita, Ar ilye tier unduláve lumbule... Chorus in Sindarin (ab 2.18): Rithannen i geven Thangen i harn Na fennas i daur ôl dûr ristannen Eryn... Solo [Ben del Maestro] in Sindarin (ab 2.58): ...echuiannen I ngelaidh dagrar Ristar thynd, cúa tawar Dambedir enyd i ganed Si linna i 'waew trin 'ylf Isto i dur i chuiyl I ngelaidh dagrar ________________________________ 'And grey-country-from lies darkness, And all roads down-licked (the) clouds...' 'Earth shakes Stone breaks The forest (is) at (your) door The dark sleep is broken The woods... ... have awoken The trees have gone to war Roots rend, wood bends The Ents have answered the call Through branches now the wind sings Feel the power of living things The trees have gone to war'