My wife and I are pretty big LOTR fans and are just fascinated by Middle Earth and everything Tolkien. Well, my wife is a little more obsessed than I am, she's learning Quenya, ancient elvish as written and created my J.R.R. Tolkien.
Here's the fun part, she's really gotten into the elvish thing. Her mother even bought her the Evenstar necklace that Arwen gives Aragorn in the movies. This is really all cool, until she refers to "Into the West", the song from Return of the King....
One day she says, "this may sound morbid, but I want that song played at my funeral..."
What the...?!?!?! Tell me that you could listen to this song again after the love of your life tells you she wants it played at her funeral. All I could keep seeing was me in a cemetary at her grave, and thinking about life without her.....
I would kill her but then I'd have to hear the song!
it's a shame because it's a beautiful song, but Icannot hear it with the correct meaning in my head anymore.
Here are the lyrics:
Artist: Annie Lennox
Song: Into the West
Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore
Why do you weep?
What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see
All of your fears will pass away
Safe in my arms
You're only sleeping
What can you see
On the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea
A pale moon rises
The ships have come to carry you home
And all will turn
To silver glass
A light on the water
All Souls pass
Hope fades
Into the world of night
Through shadows falling
Out of memory and time
Don't say
We have come now to the end
White shores are calling
You and I will meet again
And you'll be here in my arms
Just sleeping
Chorus
And all will turn
To silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass
Into the West
Here's the fun part, she's really gotten into the elvish thing. Her mother even bought her the Evenstar necklace that Arwen gives Aragorn in the movies. This is really all cool, until she refers to "Into the West", the song from Return of the King....
One day she says, "this may sound morbid, but I want that song played at my funeral..."
What the...?!?!?! Tell me that you could listen to this song again after the love of your life tells you she wants it played at her funeral. All I could keep seeing was me in a cemetary at her grave, and thinking about life without her.....
I would kill her but then I'd have to hear the song!
it's a shame because it's a beautiful song, but Icannot hear it with the correct meaning in my head anymore.
Here are the lyrics:
Artist: Annie Lennox
Song: Into the West
Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore
Why do you weep?
What are these tears upon your face?
Soon you will see
All of your fears will pass away
Safe in my arms
You're only sleeping
What can you see
On the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea
A pale moon rises
The ships have come to carry you home
And all will turn
To silver glass
A light on the water
All Souls pass
Hope fades
Into the world of night
Through shadows falling
Out of memory and time
Don't say
We have come now to the end
White shores are calling
You and I will meet again
And you'll be here in my arms
Just sleeping
Chorus
And all will turn
To silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass
Into the West
