hi! i really do not know who else to ask this to, so here goes:
you might have heard the version of the "The Children" soundtrack from the show covered by Zyrah (or ZyrahRose at the time i think). i dont think this is the version they actually used on the show end credits in s4 finale, but its pretty damn good. if not listen to them here
now i know its pretty well understandable that those arent really lyrics and its mostly notes being sung (said here) but the group said they had official lyrics given to them by djawadi so they could yk. actually sing it, and apparently its on their website, which is dead. so i found it on archive.today here but it seems to not be 'unlocked'.
what im asking is, can you or anyone you know actually figure out what the text beneath all that blurring is? i tried to go into inspect element to do that, but i dont really do this so i have no idea what i would be looking for. youve said you have a couple old fandom friends here before, so i was wondering if any of them know something like this. im aware this is kinda a weird old thing to talk about, but i really, really wanna know what gibberish theyre singing coz it just sounds so good it brings tears to my eyes
anyway, thanks for listening and for running this amazing blog!
You're very welcome! No worries about asking me, I recently dealt with a similar question when editing the GOT wiki a few months ago (more on that below). And ok, so, there's a few answers to this. Your primary question, are there lyrics under the blurring on Zyrah's old website -- unfortunately no, using inspect element shows it's just a blurred image like so (more visible on dark mode):
So if you really want to know what the lyrics are from Zyrah, you'd have to ask them. I'm not sure they're still an active band, but their FB is still up, as is their instagram, and there's contact information. Maybe someone's still on the other end of their email who can answer?
Your secondary question, what actually are the lyrics? Well, these aren't Zyrah's, but someone made an attempt by transcribing what they heard, and that's here in the highlighted comment, and I think it's pretty close. Though note there's some Spanish influence in their transcription which almost certainly wasn't intended (I guess like how I hear Hebrew sometimes when listening to Japanese or Valyrian, lol). Nevertheless, if you want to sing along and you have no luck with Zyrah, there's that at least.
But to be clear, the "Valyrian" of the song, whether transcribed by that person or as originally written by Ramin Djawadi for his ladies of soundtrack sorrow to sing, is just sounds, not actual translatable words. As with one of the other times Ramin wrote "Valyrian" lyrics to the GOT theme, "A Song of Ice and Fire" in GOT S8E6, it's purely aesthetic gibberish, he didn't check with David J. Peterson for a conlang creation. (See DJP's comments here and here, and the footnotes to my editing of the related wiki article with said lyrics here.) So, again, if you love the song, feel free to sing along any way you like, it won't mean anything, but it never meant anything in the first place.
