The Archivist (Oathbreakers)

Song - The Archivist - (Lackey/Fish) Michael Longcor Vocalist (Jadrek) , Greg Shaver Guitar, Cecilia Eng Arrangement, midi programming. Album - Oathbreakers You can purchase this album at the link below http://www.firebirdarts.com/index.php?cPath=27_57_44 Lyrics I sit amid the dusty books The dust invades my very soul It coats my heart with weariness and chokes it with despair My life lies beached and withered on a lonely, bleak, uncharted shoal There are no kindred spirits here to understand or care When I was young, how often I would feed my hungry mind with tales And sought the fellowship in books I did not find in kin For one does not seek friends when every overture to others fails So all the company I craved I built from dreams within Those dreams – from all my books of lore I plucked the wonders one by one And waited for the day that I was certain was to come When some new hero would appear whose quest had only now begun With desperate need of lore and wisdom I alone could plumb And then, ah then, I’d ride away to join with legend and with song The trusted friend of heroes, figured in their song and deeds Until that day, among the books I’d dwell – but I have dwelt too long And like the books I sit alone, a relic no one needs I grow to old, I grow too old, my aching bones have made me lame And if my futile dream came true, I could not live it now The time is past, long past, when I could ride the wings of fleeting fame The dream is dead beneath the dust, as ’neath the dust I bow So, un-regarded and alone I tend these fragments of the past Poor fool who bartered life and soul on dreams and useless lore And as I watched despair and bitterness enclose my heart at last Within my soul’s dark night I cry out, “Is there nothing more?”