Did you see them

Going off to fight?

Princes of the Durin line

Who didn’t last the night?

Did you see them

Lying where they died?

Someone used to cradle them

And kiss them when they cried.

Did you see them lying side by side?

Who will wake them?

No one ever will.

No one ever told them

That a winter day can kill.

They were hopeful

When it had begun,

Fighting for a kingdom

That would rise up like the sun.

Where’s that kingdom now the fighting’s done?

Nothing changes.

Nothing ever will.

Every day another death, another grave to fill.

Same old story. What’s the use of tears?

What’s the use of praying when the Valar do not hear?

Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning

Through the years.