Bill Sutton - Crystal Singer [HQ]

Past Due track 02. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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[book: Crystal Singer series, Anne McCaffrey]
Lyrics:
The whirlwind of the morning air harmoniously sighs
And echoes from the facets of the cliffs into the skies
We singers of the crystal must begin another day
Forgetting all the beauty in our need to make it pay
The sled may lift us far above the walls of crystal stone
And we may not remember all the claims we've called our own-
But now we fly and now we sing and listen for the sound
Of crystal veins that sing reply from cold and barren ground
Though I have flown a thousand miles and still must fly as far
I now recall the place I found my pure black crystal spar!
My comp reminds me as I fly of things that I must do
And warns me of the dangers that may keep me from my due
Suddenly the bells ring out, the whine assails my ears
A sonic storm is moving in-sled, get me out of here!
The skies light up, the blasts of wind are rising to a peak
And every passing moment takes me from the black I seek
Racing the wind, running from the storm,
Escaping from the violence to a shelter safe and warm
The storm moves ever faster, and ever louder calls
The sled gives out an anguished cry as to the storm it falls
I waken to the howl of wind resounding in my ears
The nurse the Guild provides for me stands forth to dry my tears
She cannot understand my weeping or the reason why-
I have forgotten once again where my black crystals lie
We singers of the crystal live for over eightscore years
But you who live a shorter span can never know our fears
Your memories may reach across a gulf ours cannot span-
Remembering makes you the life and me the empty man
The sled may lift us far above the walls of crystal stone
And we may not remember all the things we've called our own-
But now we fly and now we sing and listen for the sound
Of crystal veins that sing reply from cold and barren ground

[@happyskull2345]

Probably my favourite song from this album

[@peterwall8191]

Good ! Someone made a song about it! Loved the books at first read, back in 1993 i believe. I return to them frequently. Read thousands of titles, but a few have become friends over the decades.

[@TheKhopesh]

The song is better than the premise of the books, sadly.
The song makes you think humanity is allied with long-lived aliens who have short memories, but the disappointing reality is that the crystal singers are just Mary Sue tier humans who are given some drug to increase their lifespan, and after over a century some of them occasionally start having dementia like memory issues.

[@darianchristie3260]

I beg to differ on all points. I personally think the books are great.
The "drug" you mention is a symbiont from the planet of the crystal that means they cannot stay away from the planet for long or suffer extreme health effects, often death. The memory issues are usually suffered by the crystal singers with the closest link to the crystal, especially ones that sing the darkest shades, particularly black.

[@EliLubbe-hi1de]

Awsome