Song themes

In this parody re-recording of Hall of Fame by The Script, this song summarises and reviews some of the broader themes embedded in the overall narrative of The Lord of the Rings:

• Can wrong be successfully countered by doing right?
• If I die, will I be remembered? Will it even matter?
• If Middle Earth is not a paradise – rather a spoilt Eden – can I sail west to find paradise there?
• What is a true champion simply being famous? Or something more?

Song-recording

Hall of Fame is an easy-listening song with a catchy tune: it has a straight-forward structure (verse, chorus, bridge) with the final repeat of the first verse sung as a counter-point to the melody used in the bridge. This final verse-one repeat is musically interesting: and therefore I retained it in the parody.

Lyrics

Halls of Fame

V1:

You could be a hero.
You could a lord.
You could kill the dragon
Sleeping on its hoard.

You could be a warrior
Or one of the wise
Walking Middle Earth
And gathering allies.

Fighting for the truth and
Revealing the light
Casting out the darkness
Counter wrong with Right.

If you take this journey
It could mean your death.
But you may continue on in memory…

Chorus:

…Standing in the Halls of Fame
And the world will never be the same
Though you gotta walk through the flame
Life and Death is the greatest game
But will you ever stand in the Halls of Fame?

V2:

Go and fight your battles
Go and do it well
Go and walk the flames
Out through the deepest hell.

Don’t give up despairing.
Don’t complain: why me?
Earth is not the paradise
That you wanna see.

Maybe you’ll survive if
You will do your best.
You can join the convoys
Sailing for the West.

But still you will live on
Even if you die.
Comes a day when every person is…

Ch:

Br:

Be a champion. Will you
Be a champion? Can you
Be a champion? To
Be a champion…

V3:

Be adventurers, be truth-seekers.
Be companions, be believers.

Be heroes, be wound-healers,
Be warriors, be quest-seekers.

Be adventurers, be truth-seekers.
Be companions, be believers.

Be heroes, be wound-healers-

Ch:

V1:

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