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The Scholar of Ages

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About

A Song about an immortal Elf traveling his world and learning about everything that interests him from everyone he can no matter how many centuries it takes for him to master it. Remembering all the friends and Masters he met along the way as well as those who loved him and the children he helped raise

Lyrics

Verse 1

White marble

High towers left behind

I sought the mud

I sought the sweat

A hammer hits the anvil

Dwarf kings showed me how to fold the steel

Four decades

Just to get the edge right

Now they sleep

Under the mountain stone

Verse 2

Dusty books

Human fingers turning pages

Old wizard

Taught me how to pull the fire

He grew gray

He turned to ash

I still carry his copper ring

Flour on my palms

Baking bread in the Shire

Sweet yeast

Warm hearths

Laughing with the little folk

They stay small

I stay the same

Chorus

I am the student of the world

I am the keeper of the names

Every craft and every secret

Burning like a thousand flames

I learn to live

I learn to die

Watching all the years go by

I remember you

I remember you

Verse 3

Captain Thorne

Heavy blade

Scars across his knuckles

He loved me

Underneath the summer moon

I watched his hair turn silver

I held his hand until the pulse stopped

Then I walked

Past the gate

The children in the square are elders now

They point

They stare

A miracle in golden silk

They know the face

They forget the year

Chorus

I am the student of the world

I am the keeper of the names

Every craft and every secret

Burning like a thousand flames

I learn to live

I learn to die

Watching all the years go by

I remember you

I remember you

Bridge

Elara drew the longbow string

She gave me daughters

She gave me sons

I taught them how to heal

I taught them how to hunt

They became the legends of the wood

Kings and queens of mortal blood

While I move on

To the next shore

To the next lesson

To the next life

Verse 4

Sharp salt

Fishermen on the coast

Mending nets

Knots that never slip

A century of tides

One more skill for the collection

One more heart

Kept in a locket

Gold skin

Tired eyes

Still seeking

Still finding

Chorus

I am the student of the world

I am the keeper of the names

Every craft and every secret

Burning like a thousand flames

I learn to live

I learn to die

Watching all the years go by

I remember you

I remember you

Outro

I remember the fire

I remember the bread

I remember the steel

I remember your name

Always moving

Always learning

Forever

Forever

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