Unfinished: Illo Fortuna

Can you tell that I'm still in a really good mood? 'Cuz I'm still in a really good mood. My confidence and swag are so fucking high right now, I feel safe and secure enough to share with you what will be amongst some of the awesomest, most power-metallist songs my main band will have penned by yours truly.

It's also a "character song," one of those songs that's meant to be pseudo-in-character, possibly not sung by me but someone who can match the voice properly to my tastes.

I know I might be sounding kinda high-muck-a-muck, and I kinda apologize for that. But no, seriously, I'm so fucking certain of the awesomeness of this song that I might bust out the digital voice recorder in a couple of days and sing it for y'all.

...'cept I hate the way my voice sounds on the DVR. It sounds nothing like it does in person or over a microphone, makes me sound TOTALLY fake and even slightly tinny. Definitely lacks the richness of timbre and passion that I can put into my singing voice.

Anyway, enough of that! Here is the song that will be done when we reveal a major character and plot point for the band, the Gypsy King, the Mystic Wandered: Illo Fortuna.

Why did I choose such a latinish-italianish sounding name? Because fuck you, that's why.

All of you should, by now, know how my story writing goes. The Rule of Cool and The Rule of Badass reigns supreme in my world.

And Illo Fortuna is one of the awesomest, crankiest, most sinister old guys in ANY of my storylines.

I, Illo Fortuna

I hold the power...
I hold the power...
I AM the power...

I am the modern day Prometheus
Bridging the spectre of the modern age
I am the founding father of your kind
Instilling within your race my endless rage

Endless rage
Instilling within you
my endless rage

I am the hand that rocks the cradle
For I am the hand that rocks your world
I am the mystic wanderer, gypsy king
Witholding the secrets, taunting endlessly

Endlessly
withhold secrets, taunting
Endless-ly

Within the throbbing of the universe
There rests your future wealth and legacy
I am the steel foundation of my sword
Sowing destruction showing no mercy

(HOLD THE LINE)
Into the breach we go
(HOLD THE LINE) CHILDREN
Into the tear we go

(bridge)

Behold now
the works of mankind

Shriven and fallen
like atomic ashes

Behold now
the en-e-my

Riven and faithless
heart black as sackloth

(bridge 2)

(solo 1)

I am the modern day Prometheus


(solo 2)

(coda)

(HOLD THE LINE)
Into the darkness
(HOLD THE LINE)
Into the void we shall go
(HOLD THE LINE)
Children, wanderin', seekers all
(HOLD THE LINE)
Into the night we shall fall

Hold on
Hold on
Hold on to the mysteries

Hold on Hold on Hold on
My children
Into the breach we go
(HOLD THE LINE)
Children, wanderers, strangers
All of us
(HOLD THE LINE)
Into
The dark
We go
(HOLD THE LINE)