New challenge
Time for a new challenge. And I can pretty much guarantee that EVERYONE will hate it.
First, the good news, there is no special way to write the fic this week. I am just giving you a prompt (well, several actually) for you to write your drabble.
The bad news, the prompts will be lyrics from the songs featured in BSG. For today's purpose, this is the English translation of those lyrics. You don't have to incorporate those lyrics into the drabble, but you can if you want. You must note what lyric or overall song you were using as a prompt in your summary. The song lyrics are under the cut. The only song not used this week is All Along the Watchtower (let me know if I missed any out).
Kobol’s Last Gleaming/Assault on the Colony
All of this has happened before
And all of this will happen again
So say we all
Wander My Friends
Wander my friends, wander with me
Like the mist on the green mountain, moving eternally
Despite our weariness,
We’ll follow the road
Over hills and valleys
To the end of the journey
Come on my friends and sing with me
Fill the night with joy and sport
Here’s a health to the friends who have gone from us
Like the mist of the green mountain,
Gone forever
Bloodshed
Though the outcome favoured the few
It led to a confrontation
At the Home of the Gods
Battlestar Operatica
Woe upon your Cylon heart
There’s a toaster in your head
And it wears high heels
Number Six calls to you
The Cylon Detector beckons
Your girlfriend is a toaster
Woe upon your Cylon heart
Alas, disgrace! Alas, sadness and misery!
The toaster has a pretty dress
Red like its glowing spine
Number Six whispers
By your command
A Distant Sadness
A distant and familiar sadness calls to us
As if carried on the wind, like burning sand
Brothers and Sisters, away, you endure
Stranded on our own land
A memory etched into soul and skin
Leaves a scar that never heals
Our family is strong, but scattered
Across the stars and fields
We will not abandon you
We will not forget you
We will return for you
Gaeta’s Lament
Alone, she sleeps in the shirt of man,
With my three wishes clutched in her hand.
The first, that she be spared the pain,
That comes from a dark and laughing reign.
When she finds love, may it always stay true,
This I beg, for the second wish I made too.
But wish no more, my life, you can take,
To have her, please, just one day wake
To have her, please, just one day wake…
The Signal
Sacrifice to live
Live to die
Give your last breath
To the seed of war
So say we all
The Cult of Baltar
We gather in shadow
Beneath your altar,
Your image in blood
And flame.
By your command,
Deliver us
Unto the One True God.
Gaius Baltar, our
Divine saviours.
Now and
For eternity.
So say we all.
Diaspora Oratorio
Journey’s end
Weary travellers
Approach a distant shore
Verdant peaks
Pierce the melancholy haze
The sky breaks
Like a wave
We have all suffered
We have all survived
We have arrived
At Earth
Brothers and Sisters
Enemies and Friends
Embrace
For we have come home
Yet I weep
Not for the fallen
But for the unforgiven
Green hills await
With wind at our backs
The heavens part
As we approach
Usual rules apply.
Drabbles must be 100, 200 or 300 words EXACTLY. Haikus are also welcome.
Please use the following headers:
Title:
Author:
Rating:
Warning: (if applicable)
Summary of lyrics used as prompt (for this challenge only)
Please place drabble of a mature rating under a lj cut.
Please tag your drabble 'challenge no 23: bsg songs'
Ok, let the whining begin!