I don't even know the story/universe that this goes to, but in a way that enhances it. I'm being sung a song about cosmic mysteries, histories I've never heard, alien hives I've never met, and gambles I don't understand, sung in words I don't know, from a land that I'm not from. It's so haunting and captivating and strange, and I could listen to it for hours. Also, what genre is the music? I know the music is filk, but the sound is a type of noise I don't think I've heard before, and I really like it.
I also heard the song first and loved it, but it's even better when you've also read the book. It's old enough and from a classic enough author that there's a fair chance your local library has it or can get it on an interlibrary loan. Serpent's Reach isn't a bad entry point for the setting. It stands alone and doesn't rely on anything else and nothing else relies upon it.
EDIT: i am a dumbass. disregard the following Couldn't find the lyrics anywhere online, so I wrote them down here as best I'm able. Never read the book and I couldn't make out some words, so make any corrections you can. Now I have seen the madness gleaming in the serpent's eye And that is what I've come to you to tell. For the queen of blue hive told me when I called to her to die, When I made her send my enemies to hell. There's a price for too much cleverness, A price for too much change. The Majat learned too much from man and they have grown too strange. That was the lesson that she had to teach The hives have grown too large to hear, flow beyond her range. And madness is the queen of Serpent's Reach. And the oldest [incomprehensible] when I stirred to hear my fate With slow death all that I could see ahead There is a thing not on our tapes, a thing you'll learn too late: Too many killed, yet not enough were dead. There's a price for too much arrogance, a price for too much greed. And in complacent ignorance we've sown the whirlwind's seed." But nobody else there listened to his speech. We conjure now clear all we love, forgetting all we need. And we are all gone mad in Serpent's Reach. And so I'm here to show you, in the way you understand We have more things to learn, more debts to pay. And for all the easy murders, all the victories you plan Your foolishness has thrown it all away. There's a price for all the memory [incomprehensible], A price for all the tapes, The Betas, and their Azi clones we treat as clever apes. And the tidal wave is rising as we dance upon the beach Sneering at our own reflections, laughing at our shadow's shapes 'Til madness downs us all in Serpent's Reach. I've flown the [incomprehensible] too often, played too many games of Sej, And hoped to [incomprehensible] I'd gambled for a lark. You've won the ships, you've won the stars, you think you hold the edge But now at last we're [incomprehensible] for the dark. There's a price for too much sadness And a price for too much pain. Too much time in singing darkness of the high folk's brain. But I will have someone to love, someone to trust and teach. And maybe, in the darkness, we can learn how to be sane When morning comes again to Serpent's Reach.
AY! Now we dice for the dark. Now you 're in our house Filth, you abide by our rules. Slaves abominations and worse, we see you in the dark, you cannot hide form us. We see all that happens in the dark, though you know us not. We see your actions in the dark and think its about time we did something permanent about you.
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I've assembled my playlist with your HQ versions so now I can happily share my weird music taste with all my poor friends.
poor as in money or poor as in “now they have to listen to my music?”
Awesome! I've been listening to the low-quality version for years. Glad to hear it in its original quality.
I don't even know the story/universe that this goes to, but in a way that enhances it. I'm being sung a song about cosmic mysteries, histories I've never heard, alien hives I've never met, and gambles I don't understand, sung in words I don't know, from a land that I'm not from. It's so haunting and captivating and strange, and I could listen to it for hours.
Also, what genre is the music? I know the music is filk, but the sound is a type of noise I don't think I've heard before, and I really like it.
I suppose it's a kind of...synth-folk?
real shit
I also heard the song first and loved it, but it's even better when you've also read the book. It's old enough and from a classic enough author that there's a fair chance your local library has it or can get it on an interlibrary loan.
Serpent's Reach isn't a bad entry point for the setting. It stands alone and doesn't rely on anything else and nothing else relies upon it.
Read the book this song was based on. Story about a people who exploit an ecosystem of hivemind aliens to gain power over the planet, Real good.
What book is it?
@@Xeraghusta Serpent's Reach by C.J. Cherryh
Soundtrack for the entire school's system.. Great, no, perfect book and song.
EDIT: i am a dumbass. disregard the following
Couldn't find the lyrics anywhere online, so I wrote them down here as best I'm able. Never read the book and I couldn't make out some words, so make any corrections you can.
Now I have seen the madness gleaming in the serpent's eye
And that is what I've come to you to tell.
For the queen of blue hive told me when I called to her to die,
When I made her send my enemies to hell.
There's a price for too much cleverness,
A price for too much change.
The Majat learned too much from man and they have grown too strange.
That was the lesson that she had to teach
The hives have grown too large to hear, flow beyond her range.
And madness is the queen of Serpent's Reach.
And the oldest [incomprehensible] when I stirred to hear my fate
With slow death all that I could see ahead
There is a thing not on our tapes, a thing you'll learn too late:
Too many killed, yet not enough were dead.
There's a price for too much arrogance,
a price for too much greed.
And in complacent ignorance we've sown the whirlwind's seed."
But nobody else there listened to his speech.
We conjure now clear all we love, forgetting all we need.
And we are all gone mad in Serpent's Reach.
And so I'm here to show you, in the way you understand
We have more things to learn, more debts to pay.
And for all the easy murders, all the victories you plan
Your foolishness has thrown it all away.
There's a price for all the memory [incomprehensible],
A price for all the tapes,
The Betas, and their Azi clones we treat as clever apes.
And the tidal wave is rising as we dance upon the beach
Sneering at our own reflections, laughing at our shadow's shapes
'Til madness downs us all in Serpent's Reach.
I've flown the [incomprehensible] too often, played too many games of Sej,
And hoped to [incomprehensible] I'd gambled for a lark.
You've won the ships, you've won the stars, you think you hold the edge
But now at last we're [incomprehensible] for the dark.
There's a price for too much sadness
And a price for too much pain.
Too much time in singing darkness of the high folk's brain.
But I will have someone to love, someone to trust and teach.
And maybe, in the darkness, we can learn how to be sane
When morning comes again to Serpent's Reach.
I actually have the lyrics in the description already
@@SongsfromtheStars wow! what a dumbass i am. i 100% could have sworn that i checked that. my bad!
AY! Now we dice for the dark. Now you 're in our house Filth, you abide by our rules. Slaves abominations and worse, we see you in the dark, you cannot hide form us. We see all that happens in the dark, though you know us not. We see your actions in the dark and think its about time we did something permanent about you.