For space is wide and good friends are too few.
Lady MacBeth said to Helen of Troy
When they finished the wine they’d been drinking
“I’m all for regicide once in a while, but
Helen, dear, what were you thinking?”
“Archetype Cafe,” by Talis Kimberley, for all the reviled and diminished women of history and myth, with Tim Walker on drums and Simon Fairbourn on bassoon (and holy hell he is good). Lyrics available here.
Let me teach you to wonder and worry.
Permit me to tell you how to wage war.
A creature’s reach should exceed its grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?
Hey, remember when I posted this song under the wrong name for no good reason? That was a good time.
“Lucifer,” by Don Simpson, sung by Leslie Fish.
Call the storm on thunder’s wings
Falling stone and broken things
Black swan tore the temple down
Black swan tore the temple down
What’s it about? No idea! Fairy tales, probably. “Black Swan Blues,” by S.J. Tucker
Hickory, birch and willow, oak, ash and thorn,
Hazel, holly, rowan are the nine where the flame is born-
All of you who gather here bear wounds that never healed,
Festered and forgotten, blood stained and congealed
To Alexander’s credit, I’ve never heard a song use the sound of fire (remixed) as percussion.
I’ve been on Tumblr too long and thought this would be about relationship ships, and it’s…very much not. Honestly, it’s better. There are some phrases in this I never expected to hear sung.
Performed by Andrew Ross, with Sunnie Larsen, CD Woodbury and David Rogers, at Orycon 37. A parody of you-know-what, by the Proclaimers.
“Love changes us all, makes us broken, makes us brave, makes us deny ourselves and our very breath, makes us refuse to listen when our hearts tell us that the time has come to move on, to break the surface. “Neptune” is the story of what can happen after you’ve drowned yourself willingly in someone else’s hopes and dreams, and you find that saltwater and shadows no longer sustain you. “Neptune” is the story of what can happen when you’ve lived in sin with a god for long enough that the respective piles of dirty laundry and broken promises have started to really get on your nerves.“ – from S.J. Tucker’s Bandcamp
“Neptune, by S.J. Tucker
We don’t often get fancy-ass music videos round these parts.
Wind’s four quarters:
Air and fire
Earth and water
Hear my desire
Grant my plea
Who stands alone
Maid and Warrior
Mother and Crone
“Wind’s Four Quarters,” by Mercedes Lackey, performed by Heather Alexander
“Whenever a prophecy turns up in a story, characters behave with steady, maddening predictability, doing EXACTLY THE WRONG THING IN EVERY WAY. I have set up a musical telephone hotline for these characters. It may help, but that’s up to them.“
“The Prophecy Hotline,” by Kari Maaren
And Lancelot, his head held highs said
I’ll die in love for Guinevere,
I’d die for love
“The Trial of Lancelot” by Heather Dale, lyrics and chords available here
Icarus’ sister – she’s a commonsense girl
She wears sensible clothes and she doesn’t ever talk to strangers
“Icarus’ Sister,” by Talis Kimberley. Lyrics here