Round and Round

[Intro: Spoken — Elrond] You have been called here… To decide the fate of what cannot remain. [Hook: Group — full, unchanged every time] Round and round— It don’t leave Hold it close— Let it be Pass it on— Set it free It comes back— Eventually --- [Verse 1: Elrond] Long have I watched how the ages bend Rise of the same old threat again Not by chance does it surface now— Every hand got a part, but how? You speak of strength, you speak of might But none here stand beyond its sight What was made was made to bind— No one here can claim that kind --- [Hook] Round and round— It don’t leave Hold it close— Let it be Pass it on— Set it free It comes back— Eventually --- [Verse 2: Boromir] Why not use what the enemy made? Turn that blade where the debt gets paid We got walls, we got men, we stand— Put that power in a stronger hand You speak of fear like it’s all we know I see a chance in the undertow Give me that weight, I’ll carry through— End this war like we meant to do --- [Hook] Round and round— It don’t leave Hold it close— Let it be Pass it on— Set it free It comes back— Eventually --- [Verse 3: Aragorn] Strength ain’t proof that you can control Seen that story, it takes its toll Men have tried and they always fall— You don’t wield it… it wields you all Line was broke when it should’ve held Now we living what they once failed This ain’t power that you can claim— It just waits for a different name --- [Hook] Round and round— It don’t leave Hold it close— Let it be Pass it on— Set it free It comes back— Eventually --- [Verse 4: Legolas] Far from the forest, I still can feel Something wrong that it won’t conceal Like a song that don’t sit in tune— Like a shadow that came too soon Not for us, not for any kind Not for craft or a sharper mind What was forged holds a single aim— Every path leads back the same --- [Hook] Round and round— It don’t leave Hold it close— Let it be Pass it on— Set it free It comes back— Eventually --- [Verse 5: Gimli] Heard all that, still I stand my ground Deep things made can be broken down Give me tools and a steady hand— I don’t scare from what’s been planned But I see now it ain’t that clean Not a thing you can cut between Strike it once, it don’t even mark— Like it laugh from inside the dark --- [Hook] Round and round— It don’t leave Hold it close— Let it be Pass it on— Set it free It comes back— Eventually --- [Verse 6: Gandalf] There are forces beyond this room Beyond your strength, beyond your doom I have walked where that shadow grows— What it is… no one truly knows Not a weapon you turn or guide Not a fire you keep inside It corrupts in the smallest part— Takes the will, then it takes the heart --- [Hook] Round and round— It don’t leave Hold it close— Let it be Pass it on— Set it free It comes back— Eventually --- [Verse 7: Bilbo] Started small, never meant that way Just a thing I would hide away Now I see what I couldn’t then— Wish I never had touched it when— --- [Hook] Round and round— It don’t leave Hold it close— Let it be Pass it on— Set it free It comes back— Eventually --- [Verse 8: Frodo] Round and round… yeah I hear it clear Every word that was said in here No right hand, no safer way— Just a road I can’t delay If it stays, then it finds its way If it moves, maybe ends one day I don’t know what the end will be— But I know it won’t stay with me I will take it— Not alone Not for power Not for throne Just to walk where it has to go— Even if I don’t make it home --- [Final Hook: Full Crew — same, but heavier delivery] Round and round— It don’t leave Hold it close— Let it be Pass it on— Set it free It comes back— Eventually --- [Outro: Layered voices] Not alone… Not alone… Not alone…