Where can I stream "First Light"?

All twelve tracks of The Black Bond Companion Album are available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, and Tidal. Streaming links are listed below.

Do I need to read The Black Bond to enjoy this track?

No — every track is written to stand on its own as a folk-orchestral song. But if you read the book first, the track becomes scored to a specific scene, and the lyrics become diegetic.

Aurora Lyra · The Black Bond · Track 12 of 12

First Light

“I had become someone else.”

The HEA, with the wing-tear left in it. A closing track that does not pretend nothing was paid — only that what's left is worth the cost.

Movement

Cost

Length

4:50

Scene

Ch. 40

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Part of the twelve-track Aurora Lyra album, The Black Bond — Companion Album.

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Full lyrics

“First Light”

Spoiler — Chapter 40. The HEA. Read the book first if you want the ending to land. Click to reveal lyrics.

Intro

instrumental, ~30s on voice (wordless oo/aa) + cello, gallop frame drum entering

Instrumental.

Verse 1

wordless texture, oo / aa / oh patterns

wordless

Verse 2

wordless texture, ascending lines

wordless

Pre-Chorus

single sung line lands

I had not become what I came here to be

I had become someone else

I had not become what I came here to be

I had become someone else

Chorus

full choir + brass + strings, soaring

First light, first light

Vyrak banking east

A black scale white at the throat —

The citadel falling away below

Verse 3

wordless, fuller

wordless

Pre-Chorus

sung line with stronger accompaniment

I had not become what I came here to be

I had become someone else

I had not become what I came here to be

I had become someone else

Chorus

First light, first light

Vyrak banking east

A black scale white at the throat —

The citadel falling away below

Bridge

single voice + cello, motif states ASCENDING

The spiral on my arm did not lift

The spiral on my arm was at peace

Bram had tied my cravat one last time

The bond was not asking

Final Chorus

fullest, hope earned

First light, first light

Vyrak banking east

A black scale white at the throat —

The citadel falling away below

First light, first light

And I had become someone else

Outro

wordless texture, motif ascends D-F-G-A in strings + choir into wind ambience

wordless, fade

The scene

Ch. 40 · Vyrak banking east. The wing healing. The bond no longer asking a question.

The line the track turns on

“I had become someone else.”

About the track

The HEA, with the wing-tear left in it. A closing track that does not pretend nothing was paid — only that what's left is worth the cost.

The Black Bond is the first novel of The Skarn Reach, an Aurora Lyra romantasy. Every Aurora Lyra novel ships with a companion album — twelve original songs scored to the book’s emotional spine. This track is one of three in the Cost movement.

The aftermath. The watercooler line. The catharsis. The HEA, with the wing-tear in it.

All twelve tracks

Hear the full arc.

Twelve songs in three movements. Threshold. Storm. Cost. The album scored to the spine of The Black Bond.

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The novel this scores

The Black Bond

She put him in a cage. Three years later, his dragon chose her.

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