The Necromancer

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Álex Garcigregor

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So here I am now, a former summoner's apprentice
I've dishonored my kind just by giving in 
I've upset the set of people who took pride 
In me being something they could never be
And so, you see

I decided to step out of that lifestyle
And recover my smile, eager to find something worthwhile
It took a while, but I finally found it
By the shores of the river Nile

Although I heard of necromancy years ago
It never caught my eye, probably 'cos it was
Frowned upon by the status quo 
And I didn't even know you could look beyond

But soon I started to read about its possibilities
Its pros and cons, the required abilities
To practice this doctrine
And though I knew it would be costly
Mostly, I was sold

So I became a necromancer
Abandoned fame and wealth 
For just a humble chance to find my path
To make my way through death and decay
Redrawing the lines between life and death 
And crossing them both ways

A necromancer
Living in a place that isn't a place but an idea
A mental haven among crows and ravens 
And death and corpses
A garden without grass... 

After the revelation I just couldn't go on
It took me time but then I realized 
I was not meant to be a part of that elite
Making creatures appear at will at my feet

No! That wasn't for me...

I was oblivious to the hidden meaning of all this
The tease, the breeze, disguised as magic expertise
The dominance, commanding other beings
Brought to me, by me, to work for me

But it was hard to believe, and harder to swallow
Why nobody brought up the creature's perspective 
In this inventive ritual reflective 
Of every cruelty committed 
Long before the times of Shakespeare?
   
'Cos nobody stops to think 
If their acts are right or wrong 
From other sides of the spectrum
Treat philosophy as tales for kids
Antiquated, obsolete
Without taking seven minutes 
To grasp what the story's really about
And applying it to current times 

No!

But everybody vents and rants 
And cries when their world is questioned 
Or their views are threatened
Become defensive instead of pensive 
And retaliate to an inexistent attack
Never holding back
Acting as a pack and not an individual
With their own thoughts and opinions
As one would hope so
But even more so
Begin to chant a war song 
To hail their bros and beat the foes they created  
By projecting their fears 
Onto the people they dictated different 

So I no longer am a summoner's apprentice
I had to give up summoning ASAP
To become what I could be 
And nobody could see
Selective blindness coated with false kindness 
When they offer their so called wisdom to the apprentice
'Cos in the minds of others you gotta be 
Equivalent to a doctor or a lawyer or a dentist
And deny your agency for them to relish

Your ma and pa, even your nanna
Bringing a waterfall 
Of unexpected pressure your way
But death and decay 
Were calling your name 
And gone are the days 
When you listened and tried to explain
When your words were received with disdain

And the only sane thing to attain 
Is the patience and strength 
To refrain from this pain
"One more time, try it now!"
And again and again and again...

So I became a necromancer
Abandoned fame and wealth 
For just a humble chance to find my path
To make my way through death and decay
Redrawing the lines between life and death 
And crossing them both ways

A necromancer
Living in a place that isn't a place but an idea 
A mental haven among crows and ravens 
And death and corpses
A garden without grass... 

Full of worms and dirt, where lifelines revert
Intangible paradise, vastly underpriced
Surrounded by gravestones wherever you go
But still unfathomable to the zeitgeist

What's to say 
Death's not looking the other way
While we live among
These creatures with hollow bones?

Black cats, rats, bats
Dark arts, cold face
True calling, clean slate
New home, safe space

They don't know what's like to be a necromancer
They shout and rage about you being lower class
Disgraced them, they can't understand you 
Made yourself as low as a pole dancer

(There would be nothing wrong with that)

But their views, archaic and not unlike their holy books
The source of belief systems made to make them 
Pierce you with that looks
For not being at the top
The cream of the crop
If you refuse to be a surgeon or a cook

Making you both the cop and the crook
Disobeying a code they follow that even its writer disavows 
But they bow to the text ignoring the subtext 
And provoke distress 
If you challenge their idea of success

Living your life through somebody else
Expecting them to thrive
Forcing your failures upon them 
And giving them a hard time
For not realizing it was your fault 
That they weren't aware of the crushing cold
One can be in when misplaced
As you once were 

But now... it's too late to project 
So you regret all the times you convinced us we had to sweat
Every time you decreed we'd have to wait to be old 
To just know you were right, know it all, it was fate

I'll leave you there while Xel prepares
Gruesome affairs, unanswered prayers
The ones who cared will become heirs
It's fair and square I won the dare
Now go elsewhere... the rite begins!
 
Succubus Igitur Barada Hex
Dalamudis Versus Eldritch Summum

Abaddon Behemoth Semper Asatru 
Saturnae Mortem Grimoire Burr 
 
So I became a necromancer
Abandoned fame and wealth 
For just a humble chance to find my path
To make my way through death and decay
Redrawing the lines between life and death 
And crossing them both ways

A necromancer
Living in a place that isn't a place but an idea
A mental haven among crows and ravens 
And death and corpses

Where you can find more necromancers

Who abandoned fame and wealth
For just a humble chance to find their path
To make their way through death and decay
Redrawing the lines between life and death 
And crossing them both ways

We're necromancers

Surrounded by worms and dirt
Lifelines revert
Our paradise, your hell
Gravestones wherever you go
Unfathomable to anyone who's not
A necromancer

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