Let Me Speak First Of Revelations
And Next Of Dark Deceit
Then I'll Speak Of Champions
Of Lovers, Gods, And Beasts
My Song Is Long And Twisted
It Winds, It Worms, It Wends
It Carries Few, It Drowns Many
And Those I Love, It Rends
My Song Has Taken Hold Of Me
It Grips My Tongue, My Throat
My Voice Carries Truths I Never Knew
And To Fight Is Just To Choke
So Let Me Dwell Eternal
And In Ruined Flesh Ascend
For My Song Has No Beginning...
And The Current Flows On Without End
If I Could Trace With Bloodless Fingers
If My Hands Could Shape The Flow
I'd Bear My Song To The Precipice
And Rend Us Both To Dust Below
We'd Both Go Plunging Downwards
One Final Fall From Grace
I'd Howl, I'd Scream, In Victory
And We'd Be Gone Without A Trace
But We'll Never Be Rid Of Each Other
My Song, My Sorrow, And I
So I'll Bear It Trembling Onwards
To Drift On, To Dream, To Die
And Where My Final Footsteps Fall
Something Dreadful Shall Arise
Its Gaze Shall Fall O'er Trembling Plains
Its Wrath Shall Scald The Sun
And Where Once Its Howling Forebears Walked
Some Day There Shall Be None
The Wise Man Knows The Taste Of Rot
All Lovers Part As Dust
And Even Kings In Their Bowers Of Steel
Shall Wither In Ruin And Rust
This Rotten World Shall Wheeze Its Last
This Hateful Hymn Shall Cease
But As My Last Breath Splits My Throat
I'll Wheeze Through Splintered Teeth
One Last Song Of Revelations
Of Prophets' Dark Deceptions
Of Love, And Gods' Defeat;
Of Love, And Gods' Defeat.
Trivia[]
- The poem, or hymn, does not have a title.[1]
- The poem is about a future storyteller who begins their tale before starting to resent it, but choosing to continue it anyway. The tale they tell is the one that went down in the show.[1]
- It is a separate parallel mini-story to the events of the series.[1]
- When asked about the planning that went into the poem, Jon and Muna said on Tumblr that it involved "a combination of some pre-season planning, and then some making last-second adjustments out of sheer compulsion."[2]