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When Sorrow Sang Lyrics

Artist: Blind Guardian
Album: Nightfall In Middle-Earth

So let me out of it
Out of the cold
To bring back light and hope for all

And so if I could get you in
Just for a little while
Into the songs of sorrow
You might understand

Where am I now
Beyond the dawn
(Where) hope's turned to dust
At all

Immortal love's
Fooled by the hands of doom
That love means death
I realized too soon

chorus:
Caught in the afterlife
I've gone too far
When sorrow sang softly and sweet
The air was filled with tears
Full of sadness and grief
When sorrow sang softly and sweet

I feel like screaming
But I can't breath in
Shall I wane right now
I will not leave this
World of living
Till she has said
Goodbye

Out in the cold
I still wait for her call
And her last kiss
It shall be release
I can't forget her
Her face will not leave
From the depths of my soul
I long for her

So I heard all about it
Her voice's so clear
She's woven both themes in there
Moved me to tears
The world shall hear this sad song
Song of sorrow song of grief
Can't change the way of his kind
Can't change the way of her kind

Comments/Interpretations

by Midnight on 7/22/2010 9:33am
This song is about Beren waiting for his love L�thien in the halls of Mandos after his death. Their bond was so strong that when Beren died, L�thien died as well. This was the one time Mandos allowed anyone to return back to life.

by Agarwa�n on 11/1/2010 4:59pm
The last verse is where Mandos is moved by L�thien's song of sorrow (hints the name) and lets them return to Middle-Earth.

by jouzinka on 12/21/2010 7:21am
To Midnight: "This was the one time Mandos allowed anyone to return back to life."

If I might, it was the only time Mandos permitted a *mortal* to come back to life as the Elves (like Finrod Felagund, for example) did go back in special cases. =;)

by Gwynbleidd on 3/23/2012 3:49pm
Actually, all the elves were allowed to come back to life after they spent proper amount of time in the Halls of Mandos. Most of them have never left Valinor after that but there were some exeptions. Glorfindel, for example, "died" fighting a Balrog while escaping Gondolin. He was permitted to return to Middle-Earth somewhere around the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd Age.

by rky984 on 9/18/2013 2:36am
It sounds like he says 'saracens' instead of 'sorrows sang softly'. Just putting it out there...

by saawwa on 3/14/2017 11:17am
its not like mandos could decide this on his own, but he was so touched, that he kinda asked eru in his heart about this and eru through the valar gave luthien the choice to stay with beren for a short time or to remain among the immortals, but be forever seperated from him.
mandos says that in the last line, he and no valar for that matter could change the fate of humans like beren, which is to die and leave the world or change the fate of elves like luthien, which is to be bound to the world.
but he probably wouldve, if he couldve.