For space is wide and good friends are too few.
Sleep, my girl, and dream of home
Of lamps alight and hearth aflame
A china cup, a silver comb
An old grey wolf for you to tame
A rider come who knows your name
“Likho’s Lullabye,” based on a traditional Russian lullabye and the novel Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, with additional lyrics & melody by Michelle Dockrey, sung by Michelle Dockrey of Vixy & Tony
Under the Gripping Beast & Into the Fire aesthetic
For a journal bound in leather fine, as soft as human skin, a gripping beast embossed thereon, and all the world therein…
…There on her empty pillow lay, and god knows what within, a journal bound in leather fine, as soft as human skin.
Popped into my head when I was trying to write something entirely else. I liked the idea of some immortal, shape-changing creature and her view of our quaint cultural conventions.
Good, old-fashioned shapeshifting feminism.
Lyrics and chords available here
“The Girl Who’s Never Been” by Michelle Dockery, performed by Escape Key
Lyrics and chords here