Fionavar playlist
"Fear not. We went so deep because we are so near to Gwen Ystrat. The old stories are true after all."
He shook his head. He had to travel a long way back to do that much, and farther still to speak. "Everywhere," he said. "This deep."
Deep As You Go
Lyrics
. . . and she knew that they were glorious, wheeling across the wide night sky, Imraith-Nimphais and the Rider who knew her name.
Walking In the Air
Lyrics
As he drifted to sleep, Dari heard Finn murmur in his ear, "I love you, little one."
Dari loved him back. When he fell asleep he dreamt again, and in his dream he was trying to tell that to the ghostly figures calling from the wind.
Nature Boy
Lyrics
He'd gone four weeks before her recital. Had convinced them both it made sense - the time was too huge for her, it meant too much.
Blue Caravan
Lyrics
They stood on the mound in the clear moonlight. She shone for him softly, like the moon.
Calling the Moon
Lyrics
He had only been born less than a year ago. How could he know what he wanted? He knew only that his eyes could turn red like his father's, and when they did trees burned and everyone turned away from him. Even the Light had turned away.
Funeral In His Heart.
Lyrics
You had to pay the price, one way or another. You certainly weren't allowed to weep. Too much hypocrisy, that would be. Part of the price, then: no tears, no release.
(I first got this one as a Blodwen song. So it made me flail a little at first because Paul is not Blodwen whut but - it is so Paul on the tree. It is the most Paul song ever.)
Drought
Lyrics
"Rahod hedai Liadon!" Jaelle cried. "Liadon has died again!"
King of May
Lyrics
"You told me long ago, when I took you from the Tree, that we were human before we were anything else."
He roused himself and looked up again. "You said I was wrong."
"You were, then."
Dark Time
Lyrics
And who was he, Kevin Laine, to swear an oath of revenge? It all seemed so pathetic, so ridiculous . . .
Doubting Thomas
Lyrics
"Don't you have any idea how he's feeling? Don't you care?" Kimberly had shouted.
Answer: no, and no. How could she come to such a human thing as caring, anymore?
I Don't Care Much
Lyrics
She needed grey. No fire or blood, no colors of desire, access to love.
Numb
Lyrics
It seemed to her a heartbreaking thing that she could not remember the last words he had said to her.
Fire and Rain
Lyrics
He wondered if anyone would ever understand what had happened. He hoped so. So that someone might come, in time, to his mother and tell her of the choice he'd made.
Carry On, My Wayward Son
Lyrics
These next two work as a pair. A dialogue, if you will. *intertextual!*
"I am better as I am. Paul brought me this far, he and another thing. Leave it rest. I am here and not unhappy, and I am afraid to try for more light lest it mean more dark."
Fortress Around Your Heart
Lyrics
CastleDown
Lyrics
"Abba, he's been closing himself off. To everyone. I don't . . . I'm afraid for what might happen. And I can't seem to get through."
His Work And Nothing More
Lyrics
She looked out to the sea, searching. The wind was very strong now, and there were storm clouds coming up fast. She forced herself to keep her features calm as she gazed, but inwardly she was as open, as exposed, as she had ever been.
Edge of the Ocean
Lyrics
"You failed because humans fail. It is a gift as much as anything else."
Hymn to Breaking Strain
Lyrics
"I've plucked the fairest rose in Shalhassan's garden!"
Kiss From a Rose
Lyrics
. . . he poured out the brimming cup of his blood into the dark chasm, to summon Dana from the earth on Midsummer's Eve.
La Tribu de Dana
Lyrics
The grief at the heart of a dream, the reason why she was here, and Lancelot. The price, the curse, the punishment laid on the Weaver by the Warrior . . .
Guinevere
Lyrics
A sheet of lightning seared the sky west of them. Then thunder again. Then Darien: "Don't you see? The Light has turned away, and now you have as well."
Mother I Climbed
Lyrics
For a thousand years the lios had set forth, singly and in pairs, over a moonless sea . . .
Dig Ophelia
Lyrics
"I am not a goddamned subway system," Kim snapped. "I got us out because the Baelrath was somehow unleashed. I can't do it on command."
"Which means we're stuck here," Kevin said.
Pacing the Cage
Lyrics
Of course there was light in the meadow, of course there was. She was here.
With the Baelrath blazing in wildest summons on her hand.
My Medea
Lyrics
He watched her stand thus until the Prydwen was a white dot only at the place where sea and sky came together.
The Prydwen Sails Again
"I wanted to have the child. There are reasons words will not reach. His name is Darien, and he was here not long ago, and went away because I made him go away."
The Child Is Gone
Lyrics
"Are you really going to leave me?"
Tear In Your Hand
Lyrics
"Pity the ones like Jennifer and Sharra, who can only wait and love, and hope that that counts for something beyond pain."
Harbor
Lyrics
And now a couple I don't have quotes for. But they work. Because they work for everything!
Miri It Is
Lyrics
Wheel in the Sky
Lyrics
And, of course:
Bury My Lovely
Lyrics
He shook his head. He had to travel a long way back to do that much, and farther still to speak. "Everywhere," he said. "This deep."
Deep As You Go
Lyrics
. . . and she knew that they were glorious, wheeling across the wide night sky, Imraith-Nimphais and the Rider who knew her name.
Walking In the Air
Lyrics
As he drifted to sleep, Dari heard Finn murmur in his ear, "I love you, little one."
Dari loved him back. When he fell asleep he dreamt again, and in his dream he was trying to tell that to the ghostly figures calling from the wind.
Nature Boy
Lyrics
He'd gone four weeks before her recital. Had convinced them both it made sense - the time was too huge for her, it meant too much.
Blue Caravan
Lyrics
They stood on the mound in the clear moonlight. She shone for him softly, like the moon.
Calling the Moon
Lyrics
He had only been born less than a year ago. How could he know what he wanted? He knew only that his eyes could turn red like his father's, and when they did trees burned and everyone turned away from him. Even the Light had turned away.
Funeral In His Heart.
Lyrics
You had to pay the price, one way or another. You certainly weren't allowed to weep. Too much hypocrisy, that would be. Part of the price, then: no tears, no release.
(I first got this one as a Blodwen song. So it made me flail a little at first because Paul is not Blodwen whut but - it is so Paul on the tree. It is the most Paul song ever.)
Drought
Lyrics
"Rahod hedai Liadon!" Jaelle cried. "Liadon has died again!"
King of May
Lyrics
"You told me long ago, when I took you from the Tree, that we were human before we were anything else."
He roused himself and looked up again. "You said I was wrong."
"You were, then."
Dark Time
Lyrics
And who was he, Kevin Laine, to swear an oath of revenge? It all seemed so pathetic, so ridiculous . . .
Doubting Thomas
Lyrics
"Don't you have any idea how he's feeling? Don't you care?" Kimberly had shouted.
Answer: no, and no. How could she come to such a human thing as caring, anymore?
I Don't Care Much
Lyrics
She needed grey. No fire or blood, no colors of desire, access to love.
Numb
Lyrics
It seemed to her a heartbreaking thing that she could not remember the last words he had said to her.
Fire and Rain
Lyrics
He wondered if anyone would ever understand what had happened. He hoped so. So that someone might come, in time, to his mother and tell her of the choice he'd made.
Carry On, My Wayward Son
Lyrics
These next two work as a pair. A dialogue, if you will. *intertextual!*
"I am better as I am. Paul brought me this far, he and another thing. Leave it rest. I am here and not unhappy, and I am afraid to try for more light lest it mean more dark."
Fortress Around Your Heart
Lyrics
CastleDown
Lyrics
"Abba, he's been closing himself off. To everyone. I don't . . . I'm afraid for what might happen. And I can't seem to get through."
His Work And Nothing More
Lyrics
She looked out to the sea, searching. The wind was very strong now, and there were storm clouds coming up fast. She forced herself to keep her features calm as she gazed, but inwardly she was as open, as exposed, as she had ever been.
Edge of the Ocean
Lyrics
"You failed because humans fail. It is a gift as much as anything else."
Hymn to Breaking Strain
Lyrics
"I've plucked the fairest rose in Shalhassan's garden!"
Kiss From a Rose
Lyrics
. . . he poured out the brimming cup of his blood into the dark chasm, to summon Dana from the earth on Midsummer's Eve.
La Tribu de Dana
Lyrics
The grief at the heart of a dream, the reason why she was here, and Lancelot. The price, the curse, the punishment laid on the Weaver by the Warrior . . .
Guinevere
Lyrics
A sheet of lightning seared the sky west of them. Then thunder again. Then Darien: "Don't you see? The Light has turned away, and now you have as well."
Mother I Climbed
Lyrics
For a thousand years the lios had set forth, singly and in pairs, over a moonless sea . . .
Dig Ophelia
Lyrics
"I am not a goddamned subway system," Kim snapped. "I got us out because the Baelrath was somehow unleashed. I can't do it on command."
"Which means we're stuck here," Kevin said.
Pacing the Cage
Lyrics
Of course there was light in the meadow, of course there was. She was here.
With the Baelrath blazing in wildest summons on her hand.
My Medea
Lyrics
He watched her stand thus until the Prydwen was a white dot only at the place where sea and sky came together.
The Prydwen Sails Again
"I wanted to have the child. There are reasons words will not reach. His name is Darien, and he was here not long ago, and went away because I made him go away."
The Child Is Gone
Lyrics
"Are you really going to leave me?"
Tear In Your Hand
Lyrics
"Pity the ones like Jennifer and Sharra, who can only wait and love, and hope that that counts for something beyond pain."
Harbor
Lyrics
And now a couple I don't have quotes for. But they work. Because they work for everything!
Miri It Is
Lyrics
Wheel in the Sky
Lyrics
And, of course:
Bury My Lovely
Lyrics