The Bridge Remembers (Westgate Tavern Version) | Tales of Valthera

The Larkspur twins sang this duet only once, at the Golden Bridge Inn. Westgate never forgot it. Now, every night in some tavern across the city, a pair gets up to play the twins: one pretends to hold a notebook and tells the story, the other bellows the chorus. The voices are close enough. The instruments are different, and so is the swing. But when the pike comes round, the whole room shouts "NOT A STURGEON!" together. Dobbin calls it "the song belonging to the people now." Tamsin says "then the people could at least get the words right." 🪶🎵 Original duet by Tamsin & Dobbin Larkspur 🍺 As sung in the taverns of Westgate 📖 From "The Sagas of Tamsin Larkspur": The First Saga, "The Bridge of Ash" 🎲 Born from a solo tabletop RPG session in the world of Valthera 🤖 Music and vocals created with AI (Suno) ▶ The twins' original duet: [   • The Bridge Remembers | Tamsin & Dobbin Lar...  ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LYRICS [Intro] Sit down, traveller. Tonight the two of us will tell it. I'll tell you what's true. My brother will tell you what's beautiful. [Verse 1] Ninth of Kelvaran, and the dawn hadn't broken, Mist on the river, not a word had been spoken. An old man hauls his net from the same old spot, Forty years of fishing, but today what he's got Is a plank burned black that never rotted away, Warm like it's breathing, at the break of the day, And carved in its heart is a circle, hollow and dark, And a boy comes running barefoot: "Brother, come quick! It's got a mark!" And a watchman learns, as the mist starts to lift, That some secrets don't sink. The river sets them adrift. [Pre-Chorus] The name wasn't his, but he carried it through… The blood wasn't his, but it proved to be true… [Chorus] The bridge remembers, the bridge won't forget, The stones keep quiet, but the ash isn't done yet, The one who bears the name will come back home, The sea will know him, and give him back his own! [Verse 2] Up on the hill there's a steward alone, Twenty years with a key and a door he's never known. A ledger: eighty nights, eighty times written "cold," And a vow on the first page, a hundred years old: "Should my blood run out, let the one with my name return…" Traveller, tell me, have you seen a joke become a vow, and burn? A one-eyed fisherman says, "There's a hole full of nothing, And out of that nothing, something looked at me. Something." [Pre-Chorus] The name wasn't his, but he carried it through… The blood wasn't his, but it proved to be true… [Chorus] The bridge remembers, the bridge won't forget, The stones keep quiet, but the ash isn't done yet, The one who bears the name will come back home, The sea will know him, and give him back his own! [Bridge] Midnight. A silver lantern. Letters waking in the stone. "Reach out your hand," said the dark. He did. His father caught his wrist. Then one last crack was left… and a palm. Not a palm, traveller. A heart. [Verse 3] The river ran cold and a wave rose high, (There was no wind.) His mother's stone fell where the dark used to lie, (A whirlpool stone.) Kelvara laughed and the door slammed tight, (The frogs…) And a pike jumped aboard in the middle of the night! A pike, Dobbin. Not a sturgeon. I said pike this time, didn't I! [Final Chorus] The bridge remembers, the bridge won't forget, The stones keep quiet, but the ash isn't done yet, The one who bears the name will come back home, The sea will know him, and give him back his own! The sea will know him… and give him back his own. [Outro] Your name isn't where you come from, traveller. Your name is where you come back to. …And the tavern, of course… We always come back to the tavern. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #TalesOfValthera #FantasyMusic #Duet #TavernSong #DnD #TTRPG #Bard