🔒 Julia Ecklar - Space Heroes & Other Fools [1983]
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12. September 2012, 21:04:29
#0
I just found this song and it's heartbreaking and beautiful.
Julia Ecklar - DarknessFrom the album "Space Heroes & Other Fools" [1983] (
Lyrics)
There's a darkness out between the stars that any eye can seeThere's a deeper dark within me, where no light will ever beThere's an empty place beside me where my lover ought to standAnd there's a burning sun before me, and the throttle's in my handTwo days ago I lost him, on a world without a nameAs we touched the land to claim it, for the thousandth time the sameAnd I left him but a moment, and I did not see him fallI only know that I failed him, never heard his final callI dug his grave in alien ground, in the shade of an alien woodAnd I touched him there one final time, and I said what words I couldLet that cold world hold him gently, for he came so far to dieThen I took the ship that was our home and blasted for the skyBut deep space holds no comfort for one broken and aloneAnd our ship held only memories of the joys that we once had knownAnd I could not live without him in a life no longer wholeSo I chose to die by starlight and let fire cleanse my soulAnd now the screens glow blinding bright, the fires burn aheadThe hull around me whispers as it glows an angry redThere's a high, cold wail behind me, as though starships too could cryBut my hand is cold and steady, for the time has come to dieBut now my love comes back to me, 'cross gulfs I'll never knowAnd I hear his voice within me, and I hear him crying, No!And I pull the throttle to me, and the forward thrusters burnAnd the ship cries out in agony as she fights to make the turnMy vision starts to fail me as the forces mount and growAnd I wonder when the ship will fail, and I wonder if I'll knowThen the screen before me darkens, and a coolness strikes my faceAnd there's nothing left before me but the endless depths of spaceThere's a darkness out between the stars that any eye can seeBut there's a light within that darkness touches even a fool like meFor I know my love forgives me, and I know he loves me stillOnce we roamed the stars together, now I know we always will
Julia Ecklar - Hymn to breaking strainFrom the album "Space Heroes & Other Fools" [1983] (
Lyrics)
The careful text-books measure - Let all who build beware!The load, the shock, the pressure material can bearSo, when the buckled girder lets down the grinding span,The blame of loss, or murder, is laid upon the manNot on the Steel - the Man!But, in our daily dealing with stone and steel, we findThe Gods have no such feeling of justice toward mankindTo no set gauge they make us, for no laid course prepare -In time they overtake us with loads we cannot bear:Too merciless to bear.The prudent text-books give it in tables at the end -The stress that shears a rivet, or makes a tie-bar bend -What traffic wrecks macadam - what concrete should endure -But we, poor Sons of Adam, have no such literatureTo warn us or make sure!We hold all Earth to plunder - all Time and Space as well -Too wonder-stale to wonder at each new miracle;Till in the mid-illusion of Godhood 'neath our hand,Falls multiple confusion on all we did or planned -The mighty works we planned.We only in Creation - how much luckier the bridge and rail! -Abide the twin-damnation, to fail and know we failYet we - by which sole token we know we once were Gods -Take shame in being broken, however great the odds -The Burden or the Odds.Oh, veiled and secret Power, whose paths we seek in vain,Be ye with us in our hour of overthrow and painThat we - by which sure token we know Thy ways are true -In spite of being broken, or because of being broken,Rise up and build anew.Stand up and build anew! Rudyard Kipling (1935)
This
filk album was only ever released on Audio-Cassette and has long been out of print. Grab it below.
And then visit
Prometheus-Music.com for
Julia Ecklar's later releases.
Links
13. September 2012, 22:00:05
#1
Sounds good. I'll give it a listen.
21. September 2012, 22:36:43
#2
I spent some time trying to track down that album but it's impossible to find for love or money. Eventually I asked someone who should know and that person was so gracious to give it to me for free. So I'm sharing it with you above.
21. September 2012, 22:52:25
#3
To late for me. I just downloaded literally the whole youtube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/weyrdmusicmanTook a bit of time and I only choose standard quality but it will do for me.
I think this filk genre is very interesting. You expect some crappy sounding music (and in some parts, there is
) and get this funny, creative songs by really good singers. It's a genre I hadn't known about before.
Today, much of the mainstream music is, im my opinion mediocre at best. It's great to have people that digitize old cassettes from the 80's and share it with us. I found so much marvelous stuff by just surfing on youtube and blogs that share old music.
All this is more than the sum of its parts...
21. September 2012, 23:30:28
#4
Oh but mainstream music mostly sucked ever since the 70s! Anyway, I have this faible for music that sounds handmade and unpolished. And yeah, some of filk fills this spot. A lot of it is pretty unbearable too.
In case of Julia Ecklar she manages to make this type of music work for me that I wouldn't come close to otherwise. It's so pathetic, this medieval dame with a guitar stuff. But then she's got these awesome lyrics and you notice she's not soft at all. And suddenly I'm screaming along: Not on the Steel - the Man! Haha. And The Darkness? Had me in tears, sobbing like a homeless alien.
Oh well, I understand if anyone thinks this sucks and walks along. Never cared much about that.
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