**Key:** D minor **Time Signature:** 3/4 **Mood progression:** - Verses: nostalgic → playful → tragic - Chorus: mournful but reverent - Bridge: spoken, sparse instrumentation - Outro: intimate and haunting ### Intro – Instrumental _Harp or fingerpicked guitar_ **| Dm | F | C | Gm |** **| Dm | F | Bb | A |** --- ### Verse I – Soft, nostalgic, gentle strings and harp **| Dm | F | C | Gm |** **| Dm | F | Bb | A |** > **Dm**              **F** > She was joy once — sharp and strange, > **C**                **Gm** > A laugh that leapt from tree to range. > **Dm**              **F** > A sword held wrong, a song too loud, > **Bb**             **A** > A girl who danced above the crowd. > **Dm**               **F** > They taught her grace with narrowed eyes, > **C**                **Gm** > And cloaked her in the court’s disguise. > **Dm**               **F** > But even then, her spark slipped through — > **Bb**             **A** > A touch of storm in morning dew. --- ### Verse II – Tempo lifts slightly, imagery bright _(same chord progression, slightly quicker pace with string plucks)_ > **Dm**               **F** > She trained beneath a dragon’s wing, > **C**                **Gm** > Who laughed to hear her sword arm sing. > **Dm**               **F** > They’d spar and spin through morning mist, > **Bb**             **A** > And Visidera _never_ missed. > **Dm**               **F** > She sparred in glades of summer gold, > **C**                **Gm** > Her blade too blunt, her heart too bold. > **Dm**               **F** > And every time she missed her mark, > **Bb**             **A** > She laughed like lightning split the dark. --- ### Verse III – Tension builds, darker strings _(heavier strum or sustained chords, slight drum roll)_ **| Dm | Bb | Gm | C |** **| Dm | Bb | A | A |** > **Dm**               **Bb** > But something stirred — too wild, too deep, > **Gm**              **C** > A magic dragons dared not keep. > **Dm**               **Bb** > One vanished roar, one blinding light, > **A**             **A** > And Ellette burned into the night. > **Dm**               **Bb** > Her father’s gaze turned glass and stone, > **Gm**              **C** > Her teacher stood but felt alone. > **Dm**               **Bb** > They saw her not as lost or scared — > **A**             **A** > But as the fire they'd never dared. --- ### Chorus – soft, almost whispered, full of loss **| Bb | C | Dm | Dm |** **| Bb | F | A | A |** > **Bb**           **C** > She was joy once, fierce and bright, > **Dm**                **Dm** > But stars don’t choose how hard they light. > **Bb**            **F** > She ran before they named her wrong, > **A**             **A** > And found no place where she belonged. --- ### Verse IV – quieter again, fingerpicking **| Dm | F | C | Gm |** **| Dm | F | Bb | A |** > Dm F > She fled into a world of teeth, > C Gm > Where forests whispered lies beneath. > DM F > Where witches smiled with hungered grace, > Bb A > And kindness wore a stranger’s face. > Dm F > She learned to shape the flame she feared, >C Gm > To hold it close, to keep it near. > DM F > But every spark she dared to wield > Bb A > Just deepened scars that never healed. --- ### Bridge – spoken over sparse notes **| Dm | (pause) | Bb | A |** > The child who wept in windswept fields > Grew thorns to match the wounds she’d sealed. > And still, she sees the Feywild bloom — > A dream too bright, a home too soon. --- ### Chorus – fuller instrumentation, aching reverence _(repeat chorus progression, slightly more dynamic)_ > **Bb**             **C** > She was joy once, and sorrow’s heir, > **Dm**                **Dm** > A name the wind still carries there. > **Bb**             **F** > Not villain, not the tale they told — > **A**              **A** > Just young. And scared. And far too bold. --- ### Outro – soft fade **| Dm | Bb | Gm | A |** > So if you see her — eyes like frost, > A sword-hand tense from all she’s lost — > Remember her, not as she ran… > > But as she danced, > Barefoot, > In the glade.