Our Sun Has Set

Our Sun has Set is a popular Dornish song, written in the wake of the Conquest. It is very popular amongst the Dornish, but due to its implied endorsement of Dornish independence, it is much more harshly looked upon in the rest of the realm.

Lyrics
Verse One: When I was a lad on the banks of Ny Sar, my mother wept salty blue tears. The turtles had gone and my father left too, and realized the worst of our fears. We fled on a ship, through the black barren sea, no set destination in mind. Yet for all of our trouble, strife upon strife, my mother a homeland would find.

Chorus: For our sun had set, gone down ‘neath the sky, Leaving us children in cold. But it rises come morn, never to die, and the Mother smiles on the bold.

Verse Two: When I was a man, I’d come fresh to new lands, And dueled for the scraps of the earth. But a family was forged, linked in heart and hands, Came as one to our dear Mother’s hearth.

Chorus: For our sun had set, gone down ‘neath the sky, Leaving us children in cold. But it rises come morn, never to die, and the Mother smiles on the bold.

Verse Three: When I had grown old, the sky was blacked out, Filled with raw spite and with fire, The dragon had come, the roar and the shout, To claim a new point for its spire.

Chorus: For our sun had set, gone down ‘neath the sky, Leaving us children in cold. But it rises come morn, never to die, and the Mother smiles on the bold.

Verse Four: So take up your spears, my children of Dorne, Be not like the lamb or the fawn, For the Mother alone, can bring on the morn. And only blood precedes dawn.