Song of the Day #208

A little back story to this. I did a marathon on my Twitch.Tv channel of The Walking Dead episodes 1-5, made by Telltale Games. I fully got into this game, story, dialogue, characters and at the end I felt like I'd never been this emotionally challenged by a game. Choose who eats or not, who lives or dies, watching people make hard decisions for family and friends and the relationship of two people growing to the point where it you didn't want the story to lead to that point. To watch was hard, to choose (for me) was harder and I've never felt so conflicted (and in the end satisfied) playing a video game before. This song was playing during the credits of episode 5. So many feels to say the least.

Alela Diane - "Take Us Back" from To Be Still

"The tops of crags and cliffs, the air is thin

So we'll find a mountain path on down the hill

Meet me where the snow mount flows

It is there, my dear, where we will begin again

Skipping stones, braiding hair

Last year's antlers mark the trail

Take us back, oh, take us back

Oh, take us, take us back

I've a friend who lives out by the rivers mouth

He knows the fiddles cry is an old sound

A lonesome creeks and moans of empty houses

Are songs of like fallen rain

Windblown buildings, muddy ground

The strength of water can sink a man

Take us back, oh, take us back

Oh, take us, take us back

When the higher hills have turned blue

And the waves are lapping where the children grew

All that we have know will be an echo

Of days when love was true

Muted voices just beyond

The silent surface of what has gone"