
Made it to safety but the devil was here, oh no. Ll of the sudden a ranger arrived, a savior appeared I swore an oath and with my life I would pay, oh no We built a wall to keep the devils at bayĪ distant army was marching through the night and the day I counted thousands of hours just to ride all along The song appears to be told from the perspective of Jon Snow, a former member of the Night’s Watch who was rescued by his ranger uncle Benjen Stark in Season Seven: I saw the footprints in the white of the snow

It takes its name from the Weterosi sleep aide essence of nightshade, which can be fatal in large doses-way back in Season Two, Cersei came close to killing Tommen and herself with the substance during the Battle of the Blackwater.

Maren Morris’s “Kingdom of One” doesn’t have a ton of obvious lyrical references to the show, but The Lumineers vacant piano ditty “Nightshade” is loaded with Thrones call-outs. Two songs from For the Throne are already available to stream.

Now HBO and Columbia Records have teamed up to give us all what no one asked for: An entire album of Thrones-inspired tunes, featuring appearances by A$AP Rocky, Ellie Goulding, Joey Bada$, Lil Peep, Muse’s Matthew Bellamy, Mumford & Sons, SZA, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, The National, and Ty Dollars $ign. Game of Thrones has a long history of somewhat embarrassing musical collaborations, from relatively innocuous incognito appearances by real-life members of bands like Coldplay and Snow Patrol as Westerosi musicians, to the release of two mixtapes, to Ed Sheeran’s painful cameo as a tuneful Lannister soldier whose a capella stylings we all were forced to just sit around and listen to, for some reason.
