Huh. I seem to have forgotten to put this here.
...Oops?
Adventure 2, pg 477
This was originally supposed to be for Pg 331, but the comments closed before I was done (oops). Thus, the title.
“Unexpected Second Chance”
from
“Goodbye, Eddie, Goodbye”by Paul Williams & Archie Hahn
ROD SERLING spoken intro: The Swan.
It has no other name.
It’s worked throughout history, and that work has fallen into legend.
The realm of Tuonela is its home, and it guards that home as though it were Fort Knox.
This realm is full of sleeping souls, and the swan goes forth to guide more home when they meet their fate.
It is terrible and gentle all at once.
The only thing it really hates is all of the paperwork that goes with the job.
Now, it has defended its home against an intruder who says he’s searching for a single soul:
His grandmother’s, entrapped in a foul kade.
This song is the story of that search, of that soul:
of the man who sought it,
the girl who loved it,
and the monster who stole it.
[Sung]
You’ll be part of me
Forever, Ensi
With the others I’ve arrayed
You can’t escape the trap I’ve laid
By blood
Ensi Hotakainen
Crux of my designin’
I just couldn’t leave her alive
Though I got to Hilja
Won’t escape me, will ya?
I got in your mind
And so you’re mine!
But your little magelings
Plan on doing strange things
Want to get you out of my grasp
They can’t overcome me
But it wouldn’t bum me
Catching two mages
One for the ages
Ah-Ha
[Spoken]
And now, the grandsons’ story
Onni’s sister, Tuuri the Bold, slumbered in Tuonela
To get her help he would have to become a very brazen fella
Onni believed he could reclaim his grandma if Tuuri could help him along
So he found her anon
And encountered the swan
And persuaded her briefly to be part of this song
And it worked!
When his cousin and friends
Came to question his ends
All five of them ready to fight
He became quite verbose
If not truly morose
Telling them of the wrong he would right
Well, I’ll tell you, Ensi
They all thought that it was suicide
But he wanted to free
One that’s grafted to me
And I won’t ever take that in stride, man!
[Sung]
You’ll be part of me
Forever, Ensi
With the others I’ve arrayed
You can’t escape the trap I’ve laid
By blood