So I take my life to sea again / So high above forgotten ground
And the skies could break and gods fall down / But I only cry when it rains
Oh I only cry when it rains

My entry to Impressions Composing Jam Seasons 4: Melody Jam! The theme was 'The Weapon of Legend', so I wrote a composition based on one of humanity's oldest weapons - the bow and arrow. Many instruments share something in common with bows: wooden bodies, tightly-wound strings, or literally being 'bowed' to make sound. It seems as if art and war have always moved together.

I also made optional lyrics for the track below, although the instrumental doesn't cover every verse and refrain. They're written for a fantasy TTRPG setting (which I've been developing for almost nine years now!) where the death of a goddess floods the world.

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Lyrics
Come see, come see, those shining tow'rs the Heavens rais'd so tall!
You'll see them gleam in murky sea, for all the tow'rs did fall.
O turn to windward! Cast your mind to folly long ago,
To boundless love for gods above, and hatred deep below!
(And hatred deep below!)

A merry-making day it was upon the first of Mirth,
'Tween west and east was held a feast for gods all o'er the earth.
Each higher being had a seat in that celestial hall,
With appels pink and nectar-drink brought forth for one and all.
(Brought forth for one and all.)

Refrain:
So I take my life to sea again,
So high above forgotten ground,
And the skies could break and gods fall down,
But I only cry when it rains,
Oh I only cry when it rains.

But into that contented court there came an Archer proud,
Who swiftly caught an arrow-shot and softly spoke aloud:
"I loathe your spires and shining streets you built to shroud the dead, 
You'll find me in a century, when I take Astra's head."
(When I take Astra's head.)

[Refrain]

And when the lady Dream took flight, there aim'd the Archer proud,
With ancient art she found her heart, and struck her from the cloud.
She split apart a thousandfold as she fell out the sky,
She cursed aloud that Archer proud and took her hand and eye.
(And took her hand and eye).

'Cross every shore humanity then heard a sickly sound:
A calling, calling, from the sea. They followed forth and drowned.
She heard them weep with broken ears, she watched with broken eyes,
As folk found sleep in oceans deep, and rain pour'd out the skies.
(And rain pour'd out the skies.)

[Refrain]

No hand can wipe her tears away, no ear can hear her scream
How once an arrow pierc'd her heart and fell'd her fleeting dream.
Yet still she heeds her children's cry for what the world could be,
She sees them cross an empire lost and sail a great, dark sea.
(And sail a great, dark sea.)