The Exploration Pages - Vindication
The Exploration Pages are being created to further illuminate the concepts used in Ocean Born Muse's works. In the Pages, you'll find a description of the ideology of each song, as well as one of its verses.
Vindication was an expression of anger, grief, and thereafter, hope. Written largely during Muse's time between Texas and Rhode Island, each song was written during a time of emotional and psychological intensity.
Death's Brides
After several requests to write a song related to World of Warcraft, Death's Brides was written in honor of the Forsaken race, as well as in honor of the cold silence of will that comes from an absence, eternally, of light.
In the fading twilight, we walk and we weepfor the ruins of our kingdom are laid at our feet
a scourge upon the bright-lit lands, or so it is they say
we are lost, we children of the night, but no, we do not pray...
Ishnor a la Minne
Inspired by the fantasy fiction that Muse writes in her spare time, Ishnor a la Minne was written as a modern hymn; a testament to the gift of music and all the divine power it can hold.
Rising now in the lightRisen sight of sky
Morning sees the hall of music
I bow before light...
Take No More
An expression of outrage and anger at an intensely negative relationship with another human being, Take No More could easily be considered the most emotionally intense song of Vindication, and at least one of the most intense that Muse has ever written.
I will not be your soul to bleedI will not take your pain
I will not teach you how to grow
your thorns won't tear my veins...
Words of Light
Words of Light was also inspired by fiction writing, and by the concept in Dungeons and Dragons of the words of creation. A song of hope more than anything else, it is a song of redemption and the pursuit of peace.
The years are bleak, and the white is darkbut the sun, though distant, is seen
and I fly to the stars, and the moon shines down
and I speak the words of light...
Holy Incarnate
Holy Incarnate was written to express a loss of spirituality and belief here on earth. Modern technology having outdated all else, faith in anything beyond the corporeal is comparatively rare.
The holy incarnate have fled the earthno justice now can save our souls
it's down to a few to save what's left of the shadows that remain...
Jack and Angel
Inspired by Brom's The Plucker, Jack and Angel is an instrumental song, dark things creeping in night to carry you away to their dark and secret places.
