One For Sorrow (from The Grimoire of Forgotten Fairytales)

by William Moore

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The lyrics of this song come from an extended version of the famous counting magpies (or crows or ravens) rhyme from my book The Grimoire of Forgotten Fairytales.

You all helped me to crowdfund the book last year and we smashed way past the target. One of the stretch goals that we hit was for me to make a song based on one of the rhymes and you of course chose this one, I'm so excited to finally share it with you.

You can find out more about the journey of crowdfunding the book on the kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/williammooremusic/the-grimoire-of-forgotten-fairytales or on my TikTok/instagram.

I'm very excited to share what else I've been working on in this world.

Thanks for all of your support.

lyrics

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret, never to be told.
Eight for a tale the stars have spun,
Nine for a gate that can't be undone,
Ten for a river of forgotten lore,
Eleven for a key to the spectral door.
Twelve for a mirror that reflects the night,
Thirteen for a beast that lives in spite,
Fourteen for a realm beyond our reach,
Fifteen for a speech no tongue can teach.
Sixteen for a dream trapped in stone,
Seventeen for the old god's hollow moan,
Eighteen for the abyss that gazes back,
Nineteen for the cosmic, formless wrack.
Twenty for a magpie's final verse,
In a universe where shadows converse.
The end of the rhyme, the start of the dread,
Where not a single word is said.

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released March 16, 2024

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