Kevin's Watch

Leper's Progress

The mercy of the Living God renew your mind.
Unclean! Unclean! I am a survival machine,
Present your body as a living sacrifice,
Don't touch me, don't touch me, I am defiled...
We gotta change inside
We gotta change inside
We gotta change inside
The good I would do - this is what I do not do,
To live by what I hate is my unbroken rule,
Oh my soul!
Leper! Outcast! Unclean...
Misfit! Weirdo! Unseen...
Leper! Outcast! Unclean...
Misfit! Weirdo! Unseen...
I was alive, I had my leprosy and pain,
I took a vow and saw my life go down the drain,
Above the world, beyond the grave,
behind the show,
The work is done, and you are whiter
than the snow.
Oh my soul!
We gotta change inside
We gotta change inside
We gotta change inside
We gotta change it, change it,
rearrange it,
Change it, change inside...



Salt Heart

Stone and sea participating in what
remains,
The power that's remaining...
Even though I see Despite in me, I
wonder..
I wonder if at Home beyond the
Sunbirth sea,
Do they keep a flame?
A fire to burn away the darkness in my soul
Saltheart
Foamfollower
I am Salt Heart... Stone and sea!
Stay with me, beloved Unbeliever,
I shall weep for all the tales you could
not tell,
I remain when even sanity is hell
I retain the vision of the innocent.
Even though I see... In your soul,
Saltheart
Foamfollower
I am Salt Heart... Stone and sea!



The Battle of Soaring Woodhelven

PART 1
I've got friends and enemies,
I've got masses looking to me,
Giants, Bloodguard, Council of Lords...
What's it got to do with me?

White Gold Wielder, Unbeliever,
White Gold Wielder, Unbeliever.

These my friends are all in need,
Are they, then, my friends indeed?
Do they think I am omnipotent?
They're gonna get one bad surprise!

I've got friends and enemies,
I've got Despite gazing on me,
Cavewights, Ur-viles all around us
in the night,
Maybe I'd like to be
White Gold Wielder, White Gold
Wielder, Unbeliever.

Fine upstanding men and women,
Quite prepared to die for me,
But I have a dream...
To be a "regular Joe", and nothing more.

Dark wings disturb the air,
Through the trees, red eyes glare.

The Bloodguard never let you
down... Haruchai!
The Bloodguard never let you
down... Haruchai!
The Bloodguard never let you
down... Haruchai!
The Bloodguard never let you
down... Haruchai!

Okay I will make a deal, I will go with the flow
Wherever it may lead.

Don't stop moving,
Just keep going down...

PART 2

Should I fight?
Should I take up the sword?
And if the light of the hospital ward
wakens me,
(What then?)

Nerves don't regenerate
Nerves don't regenerate

One thing I must never forget,
Even here, on this battlefield,
All is unreal.

Nerves don't regenerate
Nerves don't regenerate

I feel the pressure of an evil voice,
I hear it sing "that" song,
But I will be nobody's "Golden Boy",
Have you got it?!

I'm never gonna believe it,
I'm never gonna believe it,
Take your dreams away,
Who are you, anyway?
(Golden Boy)

Nerves don't regenerate


PART 3

Foul!
Hate!
Give me Cavewight death
Give me Ur-vile mayhem
Give me Soulcrusher
I will tear him down
I will decimate
Whatever he brings against us,
Us!
Mhoram, staff on fire,
Mhoram holds back the Ur-vile wedge!


PART 4

Golden Boy
With feet of clay
Let me help you on your way...


PART 5

It is a singular military phenomenon,
the Ur-vile fighting wedge. In a
triangular formation, (hence the term
"wedge"), these creatures chant (one
might even say bark), incantations in
unison and thereby in some mysterious
way they invest a colossal power in the
foremost Ur-vile. This foremost is almost
invariably a so-called lore-master.

If I could help you, you know I would.
But I don't know what's going on,
There's nothing I can do.
Mhoram, you can break the wedge!


PART 6

One good push
And you'll go far...
But what a clumsy boy you are!


PART 7

Saltheart breaks the wedge
By just falling on them,
Big guy, maybe it ain't so hard,
To bring the "Unhomed" home!

It looks like victory,
So I should feel better...
But I don't,
I don't.

Have we, have I become the very thing I
hate?
Just who am I fighting?
Death lives within my heart,
How should I escape from this REAL
hallucination?
Am I White Gold Wielder or Unbeliever?



Mount Thunder

The sheer face of Landsdrop
Rends the earth in twain
For evil banes buried deep
In Mount Thunder

The domicile of the Despiser
Looks down
On Andelain.

Treacher's Gorge leads us to the edge
Of the Abyss.
Goodbye Andelain,
Sweet Andelain.

Power comes from the glory of the one
you serve,
All else is impotence.

The link Seareach posted on FB to a Covenant-themed song caused me to remember this. Not a great album, but kind of funny. It's too pompous and silly-sounding for Covenant, I think. Oh well.

Salt Heart

Leper's Progress

At least Moorcock (I think he either founder Hawkwind or wrote most of the lyrics) pays tribute to Donaldson, yeah we've talked about it a couple of times before.

I have the cd; wish I could say I like it, but I think I only kind of liked one tune on it. Maybe I'll give it another listen, if only to figure out which tune it was....