Category: Myths & Legends

A Return To Innocence, Myths & Legends, Reclamation, Songs

“Return To Me” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, November 4, 2025

Return to me
Oh journeying soul
Of youthful and painful toiling

Let not more time
Pass beyond our acquisition
For we’ve worked earnestly to gain rewards

Why chase false leads
Down broken promise roads
When we’ve found love’s truths revealing?

Surely you and I
Have developed Wisdom’s Eye to
Differentiate Same from Different meaning

—

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Myths & Legends, Songs, Vampiric Tendencies, Where Demons Tread

“Hunger’s Kingdom” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 31, 2025

Come, my love
Let us feed now

Place your healing
Hands upon my body

Help reshape my form
To its pleasing beauty

Let me keep your soul
Warm after its freezing

Let us learn to encourage
The wild in hearts’ beating

As we scale the heights
No one dares to mention

We have been taught to fear
What’s right in our intentions

Afraid we’d shatter luck
If looked into the mirror

But we’ve proven truths
Beyond limited scholars

Come now, my love
It’s time we overrule

—

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A Woman's Plight, Myths & Legends, Songs

“Sun Kissed” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 31, 2025

One perfect Fall day
Cascading sun rays
Revealed before me

A figure of an angel
Forged in darkness
Brilliant in splendor

Haloed light’s sashay
Will forever replay
In nights restless

His knowing smile
Held all the while
Delighted interest

What happens to mortal soul
Once beholds the face of God?

How to repent for lacking
Chance to kneel in fealty?

Held back by fear of
Trangressing cruelly

Without a hand gesture to
Allow kissing finger’s sigil?

Ah No! – Let it not be that
Such glory’s abandoning!

For bereft I’ll always be
Consumed by such grief

Fed upon by regrets
Imposing madness!

And in the years to come my
Heart will fight but not win

Remembering love’s hope
In its bloom left to languish

—

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A Man's Journey, Athena, Elden Ways, Myths & Legends, Songs

“Golden Gates” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 25, 2025

I remember you from Elden days
As a whisper upon the wind

When love was just a shadow
In a world submerged in sin

And everywhere I’d follow
Led to high cliffs or dead ends

No money begged nor borrowed
Could erase our souls as kin

And if I were to tell you
We were someday meant to be

Would it be enough to hold you
Now we’ve found this reality?

My light it’s always been you
We have followed in its wake

The purest of intentions
Our blood never forsakes

Yet I who’ve come before you
Knows youth that still debates

How much longer when so close
Before our keys open the gate?

And instinct burns the scriptures
Where the wicked stole our fate?

For lifetimes we have witnessed
From afar the promised land

In each other’s eyes in passing
Swore an oath to hold your hand

Come to me now
Come home at last

It’s time we feast
On love’s repast

And all the world
Will know at last

What it feels like
To be truly blessed

Come revel with me
Breathe in the scent

Of Eden’s garden
No longer Hellbent

Children of God
As our descent

No longer cast
Far to wander

Come meet me
At the alter

Where our hearts
Spring wings anew

I know you
I know you

I know you
It’s true

I know you
I love you

Free at last
Me and you

—-

Haunting Elden melodies of longing.

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A Man's Journey, A Return To Innocence, Elden Ways, Featured Artists, Myths & Legends, Reclamation

(Stars – Eriks Esenvalds, Oregon Repertory Singers)

Candid Corvid Productions

Dr. Ethan Sperry, Artistic Director
Lisa Riffel, Assistant Conductor & Choir Manager
Naomi LaViolette, Accompanist

David Peterson, Producer & Editor

Stars
Music: Ēriks Ešenvalds
Lyrics: Sara Teasdale

Alone in the night
On a dark hill
With pines around me
Spicy and still

And a heaven full of stars
Over my head
White and topaz
And misty red;

Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
The aeons
Cannot vex or tire;

Up the dome of heaven
Like a great hill
I watch them marching
Stately and still

And I know that I
Am honored to be
Witness
Of so much majesty

A Man's Journey, A Return To Innocence, Myths & Legends, Reclamation, Songs

“King Of Hearts” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, October 18, 2025

King of Hearts
Where’s your start?

Do you see the
Way is open?

In a glance
Hidden chance

Now we feel the
Future welcome

In all of the
Days of searching

Our souls had to
Keep learning

How to love again
In ways that never end

And while I was dreaming
You’ve been creating

A song to sing again
My Dearest Friend

My Dearest Friend

King of Hearts
In a flash

I see our
Lives unfolding

You and me
We make a team

Hand in hand
Our lives are golden

For all the pain
We suffered through

I wouldn’t change
A thing or you

Because we’re here
In paradise awakened

What was lost
Is not forsaken

But becomes
Reborn again

And Heaven’s voice
Opens the Gates

Calling us home
(Its throne our Home)

—

Chord chart and recording pending…

Note to self: last phrases end on same end notes of my song “Where Hearts Roam.”

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A Return To Innocence, Myths & Legends, Reclamation, Songs, Where Demons Tread

“Turn The Page” (Song)

Candid Corvid Productions

By Athena Stairs, Octiber 16, 2025

You turn the page some
Even when not fun

And you always try to do better
And I love you all the more for it

I want to know you
Yes I adore you

But you’ve got your work cut out for you
Come say Hello while in my groove

And all the days and nights
We’re tossing turning

Could someday turn into
Our love that’s burning

If only we could find the way
I’d hold you in my arms each day

And everything we fought through pain
Once death in loss our hearts regain

So tell me how to reach for you
I’m falling

I know that we could see this through
My darling

And from this day ever more
Two hearts entwined they’ll sing of lore

And we can focus upon
Our just flying

Yeah

—-

Now to capture chords, make a chird chart, and record a sample…

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A Woman's Plight, Athena, Male Bonding, Myths & Legends

Embodiment

Candid Corvid Productions

This is why the Goddess Herself
Had not married god nor mortal

For she had loved and lost
Bearing griefs of betrayal

But she did not become cynical
Although men have felt her Ire

No – instead she searched in scriptures
Heard in winds the Holy Ghost singing

Planted seeds for Trees of Tomorrow
Helping others find North in sorrow

She resigned her heart to solitary solace
Delighting in life’s colours and textures

Spun interwoven silk stories with spiders
Cajoled with Fates to ease human troubles

Only dreaming in innermost sanctum
Somehow a pure heart would awaken

Who’d be strong and wise enough to see
How the world was made for our eternity

And would love her as she would love He
While the Earth traveled peaceful galaxies

A Return To Innocence, Myths & Legends, Reclamation, Where Demons Tread

Awaken, My Love, Awaken

Candid Corvid Productions

Like Orpheus and Eurydice
Lovers entwined in tragedy

You and I have sung songs to
Awaken what was lost to death

Only this time, my love, my heart
Sings you back into human form

Undead, arise my beloved intended
Ever art thou of the noblest crowned

And though I look over – for I must
To ensure you are still pacing beside

You shall not fade to aggrieved destiny
Follow me, follow me, follow me home

To the mundane where love still roams
Come home, my life, my hope, my world

Be at peace, come rejoice and be heard
For ever art thou my deliverance’s boon

We shall trace our names upon Eden’s trees
As its blooms are restored by love’s eternity

And we shall not want no matter sacrifice
For we‘ll find our souls’ promises redeemed