[**This song contains SPOILERS for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant written by Stephen Donaldson**] [**This song is also a deranged mishmash of books, timelines and even misplaced authors. So some of it is just flat wrong. If you know you know.**] In Time's despite toward the One Lord Foul stretches his hand, To the sun Into the wide and infinite below Into him, Legions of Despair flow Of Melenkurion Skyweir, The will is clear Met In Time's Despite Gossamer the might By the power of rhyme at the touch of Time The only High Wood is the One Tree The palimpsest, a forfeiture The silver and immaculate The Timelight and all who live To keep to bear the instant gift To be the one to tell the one "The time is now the world has come" The Well of Souls a seamless hint A timeless perfect accident And in their place an elvish track They hold their Briny Legend back There are Ten Thousand who are not evil And the Unhomed cannot be alone And the choice is not false, The Banefire halted To Tanelorn some giants wander long Mobius chooses to drink with the heroes Thomas Covenant appears in the Dilemma He holds an instrument with lust and jealousy Through the Pit passes its brilliance Of Arianna's Foul, Caer Syliae now The Ranyhyn shall reign once again Of great weight with opposing power and might The time is The Month of Silence A leper's hand, the white gold ring The paradox, an ancient sting To refuse the gift, to bear the curse Through Revelstone's halls, the Land's rebirth The Ranyhyn call, the Earthpower cries Through Bannor's gaze and Foamfollower's ties In Andelain, the beauty sleeps The hurt that heals, the wound that weeps The Despiser waits in his darkened hall The Staff of Law, the shards must fall To Haruchai strength, the Oath is sworn A Thomas Covenant trial, a world reborn The Dead look on, their wisdom guides The ring, it burns, its power untamed A white fire's flare, a land reclaimed Through the Wards of Kevin, the madness flows The Unfettered One, his knowledge grows But Covenant's heart, in doubt, divides Between the world he loves and life he denies To the Creator's touch, the Land remains Through sacrifice, he breaks away The Sunbane fades, the Earthpower soars In his death, the Land endures