Finity's End 08 - Finity's End [HQ]

Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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[books: Downbelow Station, Finity's End, and others]
Lyrics.
Finity’s End is a far-traveling ship and wide space is the deep that she knows
Infinity’s black is the emblem she bears, and never a mark does it show
The stuff of dead suns is her iron and her steel; in a nova's light she was made
She set out to travel the day she was born, in the free-running, long-hauling trade
Chorus:
And no sun can hold us and keep us for long, for infinity’s ours, and infinity’s free.
And no star can own her and no world’s her own, for Finity’s End is she.
The Company thought that they’d make them a law and have all the ships for their own
“You’re Company ships now and Company crews, you’ll pay us and serve us alone.”
James Robert the First was her captain that day, and he sent to all ships in the deep:
“Farewell to their ports and good luck to them all, for what they can’t catch they can’t keep.”
(Chorus)
And, wonder to tell, Mother Earth changed her mind, and called back her magistrates too,
For no ship would haul beyond Alpha or Pell, so no mail and no cargo got through.
Then Unionside came with their ships and their guns and closed up the ports one and all
“You’ll all haul for us now,” the Union men said, “You’ll come and you’ll go where we call.”
(Chorus)
Now Captain James Robert was vexed and annoyed, so he sent out the word like before:
“We’re free ships and crews and we go where we please; we’ll haul you to hell and no more.”
Then Unionside haulers like Candice and Fay, Merry Gold, Carina, and Fame,
From Unionside ports reached the wide deep of space, and to Finity’s End they all came.
(Chorus)
“Ah, well now,” said Earth, “you must come to our side, for there is no place else you can be.”
But Captain James Robert still sent out the word that all ships from now on must be free.
So no ship would come and no true ship would go but the traitor Shalleen and her kind
Shalleen drifts in pieces around Shalleen Point, and never a rest will she find.
(Chorus)
The treaty was signed then and sealed and made sure, for ports to be open to trade;
And borders be none to withhold us or bind-no law on our decks but the law we have made!
(Chorus)

[@turbokadett]

Having just re-read Finity's End for the upteenth time I've stumbled across this; now I know the sort of songs the crew sings during dock/undock.

[@carter2865]

Just read faded sun trilogy, nothing else in the universe. What should I read next?

[@allansimonsen8369]

@@carter2865 The Merchanteer Saga (which this references) is a great read. Chronologically the sequence starts with Heavy Time and Hellburner, but the most common first book is Downbelow Station, followed by Rimrunners, then Cyteen.

[@noobling8313]

@@allansimonsen8369 God, I need to read all of these books again!

[@Jo-ys3qx]

Hell yeah, free roaming ships vs the corporate empire/union

[@TheBest-cs7qg]

I’m reading the books because of these songs

[@Rocketsong]

Lyrics: C.J. Cherryh
Music: Leslie Fish
Vocals: Leslie Fish & Joan Gaustad

[@peterwalls-qf7ii]

Incredible! A minor scuffle, a trade disagreement, sung like it was a war.

[@magrav1018]

I just found this, and it is absolutely brilliant.

[@Spaceman33393]

No clue why but even never having read the books, and being born long after the space race I keep getting drawn back to songs like this. Thanks for the HD upload.

[@KatrinaLeFaye]

Deriously? Buy and read the books!

[@ummmhelp]

Me too I think I like them cause They're a past peoples extremely human look into a hopeful future that never came

[@lorendaemon7945]

THIS GUY DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT THE ARTEMIS MISSIONS (PLEASE LOOK THEM UP I THINK YOU WILL FIND THEM INTERESTING)

[@CMacK1294]

@@ummmhelp Yet. A hopeful future that hasn't come yet. We've stumbled and made mistakes, but mankind's destiny is not out of reach. Even by sublight, the galaxy is ours for the taking if only we all come together and reach out to claim our destiny among the stars.

[@Neris-of-the-other]

"The stuff of dead suns is her iron and her steel; in a nova's light she was made"
That is a beautiful line, but couldn't you say that about practically any ship😅

[@arauchfuss]

All iron in the universe comes from dead suns. So yeah all ships are made with star stuff.

[@human-tk2fo]

Yes, and not just ships, most of the mater in the universe is star stuff, but I don't think it detracts from the romanticism at all.

[@captain_frost20]

This was the song that turned me onto the Alliance-Union universe.
I really wish more of her books took place in the Company War era. The alien things don’t interest me nearly as much as the merchanter books do.
Chanur seems cool however, I plan on reading that soon.

[@Hypergen-]

Highly recommend the Chanur series, that’s what got me into the books!

[@freakout3516]

Yes.

[@davidbeal4111]

I will be perpetually confused why so many of Cherryh's book or in this case album covers have windows into space in them. In Tripoint a big deal is made of a restaurant having a proper window which is rare because they are dangerous. Great song though.

[@Arpel21]

it's not about realism, it's about the ~rule of cool~

[@Ultrawup]

I mean, the ISS has a window, the Cupola Module. And a lot of pictures are taken there.
It makes sense that the pictures for album/book covers would be taken near some of the few windows on a station or ship.
Because, as mentioned, it is cool AF. Therefore, the Rule of Cool applies.

[@Lernaia156]

fundamentally its about artistic compostion. You kinda got to have a window to be able to portray a person and and space/ships

[@anon9469]

To me, this one looks like some kind of scanner/viewer, not a true window.

[@Ultrawup]

Ignoring the obvious universe mismatch, this feels like it'd fit right into Firefly
Freedom and independence above all, roaming from world to world with your ship being home...
The idea of a government coming to take your stuff and tell you what to do, answered by flying beyond their reach...
It basically sings "You Can't Take The Sky From Me", all it lacks is "Serenity" replacing "Finity's End" and it's perfect
(Repost from my comment on at least one other upload of Finity's End)

[@momofcjmt4]

Chords on this version are altered from the original and took me forever to find. I think this is roughly correct:
(Bm) Finity’s End is a (Em) far-trav’lin’ ship
and wide (Bm) space is the (A) deep that she (Bm) knows.
Infinity’s black is the (Em) emblem she bears,
and (A) never a mark does it (Bm) show.
CHO:
And (Bm) no sun can hold us and (Em) keep us for long,
for in-(A)-finity’s ours, and infinity’s (Bm) free.
No star can own her and (Em) no world’s her own,
for (Bm) Finity’s (A) End is (Bm) she.

[@lesliefish4753]

Er, no. I played it in A-minor, but on a 12-string tuned a whole step down.

[@momofcjmt4]

@@lesliefish4753 amazing to get a correction from one of the greats! My understanding of the distinction is limited but I’ll update my comment once I figure it out.
Thank you Leslie!

[@ghostgirl4221]

Help me

[@waynehutchins3431]

How?

[@toastyPredicament]

Ha padstava