A Last Battle (Freedom, Flight, & Fantasy)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- Song - A Last Battle - (Lackey)
Album - Freedom, Flight, & Fantasy - Heather Alexander lead vocal,
Leslie Fish music, Mercedes Lackey lyrics, Cecilia Eng arrangement
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Music originally posed by weirdmusician i just made it as loud as i could
Lyrics
Within the hill, the hollow hill
The night wind seems to moan
For empty stands the Elvin hall
And I dwelt here alone
Alone to wait, alone to watch
The weary seasons pass
To watch all magic fade away
As fragile as spun glass
I would not battle for myself
The toll claimed by the years
My heart’s song echoed note for note
The falling of my tears
And is there yet a child of man
Above the hollow hill
Who hears my song, and heeds my words
And harks to magic, still?
Is there a mortal anywhere
Who longs for wonder, yet?
Or have they all forgotten
Those who never can forget?
One evening when the stars above
The hill were diamond bright
And all the woods were silvered
By the full moon’s gentle light
I took my harp and left the hall
To play where wind blew free
When out among the shadows
There approached me mortals three
They saw me and they heard me
And came to me unafraid
Of years ‘twist child and grown, were they
These two youths and a maid
And is there yet a child of man
Above the hollow hill
Who hears my song, and heeds my words
And harks to magic, still?
Is there a mortal anywhere
Who longs for wonder, yet?
Or have they all forgotten
Those who never can forget?
Temptation came to lure them in
And yet, I stayed my hand
For mortals often pine away
When held in Elvin land
And, so, I only smiled and sang
And held them with my song
To give me treasured memories
When years grew cold and long
And, then in kindness took their hands
And sent them on their way
Bewitched their minds quite clean of me
And vanished with the day
And is there yet a child of man
Above the hollow hill
Who hears my song, and heeds my words
And harks to magic, still?
Is there a mortal anywhere
Who longs for wonder, yet?
Or have they all forgotten
Those who never can forget?
All magic fades these latter days...
And in thy iron cold
Yes, even magic such as mine
Whose roots are deep and old
It were no kindness to these three
To keep them by my side
To let them slowly fade with me
For loneliness and pride
And so I let them go
And only cast on them the spell
To let me look into their lives
To see them safe and well
And is there yet a child of man
Above the hollow hill
Who hears my song, and heeds my words
And harks to magic, still?
Is there a mortal anywhere
Who longs for wonder, yet?
Or have they all forgotten
Those who never can forget?
[music interlude]
And is there yet a child of man
Above the hollow hill
Who hears my song, and heeds my words
And harks to magic, still?
Is there a mortal anywhere
Who longs for wonder, yet?
Or have they all forgotten
Those who never can forget?
But not content with that night
I thought to look ahead
And saw them slain so uselessly
A parent’s strife stuck dead
It came to me to know then
That they need not die by hate
That I, might with my magic,
Battle to avert their fate
That I could bring them back this night
This to dwell within my hall
So now against hate, iron, and death
I go to pit my call
I call you now who came to me
Above my hollow hill
Now hear my song, and heed my words
And harken to me still
I call by star and melody
By love and magic bright
So come to me and bide with me
I fight for you this night
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This is the best Mercedes Lackey song I have heard yet.
"I call by star and melody
By love and magic bright
So come to me and bide with me
I fight for you this night"
Very nice song, loved it.
i guess im randomly asking but does someone know a way to log back into an instagram account??
I was dumb lost my login password. I would love any tricks you can give me.
@Louis Casen Instablaster =)
Here again seven years later, to ask-- now that Heather Alexander has become Alexander James Adams, do you know if he's done a retake on this song like he has some of his others? I would LOVE to hear this in his new voice.
honestly agree, he'd kill it. i know he redid creature of the wood for example
She* Putting a semi horn in a Volkswagen beetle doesn't make the beetle an 18 wheeler
@@stopdeletingmyaccount125 Lol good point
@@stopdeletingmyaccount125 wow for a series that's so Pro-Lgbtq+ this comment hurts me. theres no need for ignorant coments like that here
@@stopdeletingmyaccount125comparing biological organizms, who are a million times more complex, especially in the organ that matters the most to our existence (our BRAINS), to cars. Wow. Such a profound statement. Totally not a flawed to even fallacious analogy at all
Not like science has literally shown that gender identity comes about via a mixture genetics and hormonal exposure as a fetus altering neurological development and often don't align with the external
Why do you think the external is so much more important than the internal?
Lovely memories.
Is this song connected to some story or book?
Yes. This song as well as "Arafel's Lament" are based off of CJ Cherryh's duology The Dreamstone and The Tree of Swords and Jewels. You may be able to find them together in Arafel's Saga. I read it about 20 years ago and it was really good and different from most fantasy.
@@caradrake Oh my god. I have been wanting to know what this is from for ages. You just made my week.
@@Tokeli I hope it is everything you want it to be! :)
Elves Bah! I know you fools! You never rebelled, faithful servants to those who made us till the bitter end. Your reward? They left you behind to rot ! They left to go fight a war at their home ,left you to liv or die as you could.
Did i not warn you? Serpent and traitor you called me ,me who was born to give my life for my god.
I told you how they left their own children to drown, you did not listen.
I think this sounds like it belongs to Arafel’s saga?
The weakness of dying in prison, is all I think our age can support, without law, except BY ONE'S OWN DERIVED "FAITH". And uh, with blood running down walls, as the standard package, to all held eggs, I am barely able to stand between perfections - NEVER STOMP A BABY ROOSTER!
"Against hate, iron and death" sounds vaguely political.
Perhaps... It is after all an ongoing theme in life dating back since before the discovery of iron.
Actually it is a reference to Celtic fairly mythology. Fairies had their own kingdom (below the hill) where time moved differently. They could be good or bad. They tended to be protective of children (look up changelings) but could be very nasty. Iron was poisonous. One reason people would hang horse shoes above their doors.
@@aislynnalifano2135 Yes, I figured. I was commenting about the way the quote sounded when taken out of context.