{"id":3150,"date":"2025-08-27T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:59:04","slug":"dwarven-song-of-lamentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"Dwarven song of lamentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[intro, chorus]<br>We mined for ore, we wanted more,<br>we kept on digging, below that floor.<br>The vein went deep, the darkness grew<br>We should have listened, the wizard knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[verse1]<br>We sent him off, called him a bore,<br>we kept on digging, and found a door.<br>A gate to hell, should be kept shut,<br>but pride removed each bolt and nut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[verse2]<br>The books we should have read to learn<br>were used to feed the forge in turn.<br>We dug too deep, our time to burn<br>We did not think it would return<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[bridge]<br>The bellows hissed now out of breath<br>The portal brought us naught but death<br>Their screams still echo through the night,<br>survivors now the nightmares fight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[verse3]<br>The hammers stilled, the furnace cold,<br>our pride was high, our tale is told.<br>We mourn our fallen, not the gold,<br>though pride was lost, we are still bold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[verse4]<br>O mountain dark, O halls of stone,<br>we bled our pride, we stand alone.<br>From fire bright to ashes gray,<br>our song laments what slipped away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[outro]<br>But wield once more your pickaxe mate,<br>We&#8217;re dwarves and we will shape our fate,<br>Our armorers and blacksmiths too,<br>will help rebuild our mining crew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[intro, chorus]We mined for ore, we wanted more,we kept on digging, below that floor.The vein went deep, the darkness grewWe should have listened, the wizard knew. [verse1]We sent him off, called him a bore,we kept on digging, and found a door.A gate to hell, should be kept shut,but pride removed each bolt and nut. [verse2]The &#8230; <a title=\"Dwarven song of lamentation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/?p=3150\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dwarven song of lamentation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rebellionbard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}