Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Time for some more Bloodborne! While "Wake Me When it's Over" was more about the game's experience as a whole, this ballad is about its DLC and the character of Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower. If you haven't seen her fight, well, she's a force to be reckoned with and it took me 10-11 tries to beat her. Her story is interesting to me as she's guarding a dream of the past, a secret she's been keeping for many lifetimes.
We all must pray to Vaati that one day we'll get a Lady Maria Prepare to Cry!
This song and my other Soulsborne songs are part of Dystopian Fiction, which you can find right here:
soundoftheaviators.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-fiction
Instrumentals and Vocals:
soundoftheaviators.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-fiction-the-instrumentals
Lyrics:
I heard the cries of an orphan
Mourning the passing of time
I felt pain
Seep from the blood's absolution
Bled once by wonders divine
I am amazed
Left in the ruins of greatness
And I'll keep their nightmare alive
Fighting in vain
We are the fiends in the shadows
And I am the beast that survived
Here come the ravens
To take what is mine
Their watching eyes
Waiting for the rest of me to die
Here comes the reaper
That hides from the light
Still hunting for
The heart that's still beating inside
For these ravens to find
Tossed in a well long forgotten
The duty I had to fulfill
I can't remember
Why I became a lost dreamer
For vengeance, or for the next kill
Locked in a tower
I'll cut away what I've done
From the rest of the dreamers outside
Cursed in a portrait
Made of this Hunter's regrets
Of the mother I drowned in the tide
Weep for the master that made me
And the raven that heard my last breath
Long have the hunters pursued me
And tonight I'm your angel of death
Fire, blood, and desire
Lost in the mire
In desolation
Lies, all of us die
And even now, I
Am left to the ravens
Here come the ravens
To bury my pride
They're hunting me
And trails of my sorrow behind
Here comes the new blood
Where secrets should lie
To find rest
Where dreamers and beasts go to die
Time for some more Bloodborne! While "Wake Me When it's Over" was more about the game's experience as a whole, this ballad is about its DLC and the character of Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower. If you haven't seen her fight, well, she's a force to be reckoned with and it took me 10-11 tries to beat her. Her story is interesting to me as she's guarding a dream of the past, a secret she's been keeping for many lifetimes.
We all must pray to Vaati that one day we'll get a Lady Maria Prepare to Cry!
This song and my other Soulsborne songs are part of Dystopian Fiction, which you can find right here:
soundoftheaviators.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-fiction
Instrumentals and Vocals:
soundoftheaviators.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-fiction-the-instrumentals
Lyrics:
I heard the cries of an orphan
Mourning the passing of time
I felt pain
Seep from the blood's absolution
Bled once by wonders divine
I am amazed
Left in the ruins of greatness
And I'll keep their nightmare alive
Fighting in vain
We are the fiends in the shadows
And I am the beast that survived
Here come the ravens
To take what is mine
Their watching eyes
Waiting for the rest of me to die
Here comes the reaper
That hides from the light
Still hunting for
The heart that's still beating inside
For these ravens to find
Tossed in a well long forgotten
The duty I had to fulfill
I can't remember
Why I became a lost dreamer
For vengeance, or for the next kill
Locked in a tower
I'll cut away what I've done
From the rest of the dreamers outside
Cursed in a portrait
Made of this Hunter's regrets
Of the mother I drowned in the tide
Weep for the master that made me
And the raven that heard my last breath
Long have the hunters pursued me
And tonight I'm your angel of death
Fire, blood, and desire
Lost in the mire
In desolation
Lies, all of us die
And even now, I
Am left to the ravens
Here come the ravens
To bury my pride
They're hunting me
And trails of my sorrow behind
Here comes the new blood
Where secrets should lie
To find rest
Where dreamers and beasts go to die
![Aviators - Bonfire (A Rest) [Dark Souls Song | Acoustic Ballad]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z62dRpotAIY/mqdefault.jpg "Aviators - Bonfire (A Rest) [Dark Souls Song | Acoustic Ballad]
You can download this song on bandcamp:
https://soundoftheaviators.bandcamp.com/track/bonfire-a-rest
Or Listen on Spotify!
https://open.spotify.com/track/6AK78XEXgrl3FNYYTek2yf?si=a3cd35f50a2249dc
This album is also available on many other services!
https://fanlink.to/modernmythology
For remixes, covers, or anything of that sort, you can find the instrumental versions with vocal stems and MIDI notation right here:
https://soundoftheaviators.bandcamp.com/album/modern-mythology-the-instrumentals
The artwork was created by the ever-talented @ABluSkittle !
https://www.twitch.tv/abluskittle
https://www.deviantart.com/abluskittle
Here we are together, at the end of an era. With Bonfire (A Rest) hailing as my final Dark Souls song, it felt appropriate to pay tribute to the serene melancholy of gathering around a flame and resting while bumping into other travelers of the same need. Somewhere along the way, it turned into a ballad of friendship and comradery, much like an end-of-the-year holiday gathering among old acquaintances. I suppose this is about as seasonal as a Dark Souls song could be! Ive even gone and edited in a little extra holiday cheer.
Thank you all for being here with me on my journey through these transitory lands.
Lyrics:
I felt my bones shiver
Across rifts of time
I saw ghosts in the mist
And their faces like mine
And I looked to the footsteps
And gazed on a sign
That said call my name
Ill join in the fight
Broken and withered
We will rise again
My brothers and sisters
In death we are friends
Incandescent together
A slow fading light
The efforts cascading
Our time is tonight
Fractured and feeble
Ordinary people
Putting resolve to the test
Nobody chose to be risen
But new life is given
When we light a bonfire to rest
Old friends and rivals
We sit by the flame
To share in the moment
Before we can claim
Our own destinys purpose
In each of our homes
Weve all got our battles
But no ones alone
Nameless and searching
The light keeps us warm
In need and in danger
It guides through the storm
As we share in a question
Will we meet again
To sing by the embers
And brace for the end
Fractured and feeble
Ordinary people
Putting resolve to the test
Nobody chose to be risen
But new life is given
When we light a bonfire to rest
Undying forever
Through war and dark weather
Binding to search for a light
Some lit by grace or by embers
Were searching together
Starved for that break from the fight
Swords losing sharpness
To angels and darkness
These soldiers push on through the mire
Now were all faced with the ending
The burn before mending
A vision to let there be fire
Fractured and feeble
Ordinary people
Putting resolve to the test
Nobody chose to be risen
But new life is given
When we light a bonfire to rest")
