{"id":304,"date":"2008-10-20T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=304"},"modified":"2009-09-27T00:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T22:31:48","slug":"midnight-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/304","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Midnight Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Got the idea from a friend, who told me about a dream in which he heard a filk that had a basic idea very similar to this one.
\nTune: Original.<\/em><\/p>\n

Recording<\/a><\/p>\n

I left the Faery's wide domain
\nTo roam the fields of mortal planes,
\nNear stumbled on the body of a fair man sleeping.
\nHe opened up his eyes – so blue
\nMy heart was cleanly split in two.
\nHis skin was fairest white. I knew I'll soon be weeping.
\n
\nFor Faery heart is somewhat strange:
\nNot often subject to quick change,
\nBut once the heart is changed, it's bound and loathe to roam.
\nSo if I love, here I must stay.
\nThough my soul withers with dismay,
\nBy midnight I'll be bound here with no way back home.<\/p>\n

Oh, curse his skin and curse his eyes
\nThat trapped me in a web of lies.
\nI am falling headfirst in a midnight crisis.
\nCurse my heart and curse my hands
\nThat failed me in the human lands,
\nBut I shall win myself free of this midnight crisis.<\/p>\n

Desperate and quite afraid,
\nI called upon my father's aid.
\n"Won't you help your daughter now, beloved father?"
\nMy father frowned, my father sighed.
\n"To win you free, this man must die.
\nDaughter, have you courage to kill your new lover?"<\/p>\n

My father cocked his mighty bow.
\nMy human love was frail and slow:
\nThe arrow would have pierced his heart, had I not stopped it.
\nMy father's poisons, quick to act
\nWould have ensured I could go back:
\nThe poison was near at his lips when I had dropped it.<\/p>\n

Oh, curse that skin and curse those eyes
\nThat made me care a mortal dies.
\nThere is little hope now in this midnight crisis.
\nCurse my heart and curse my hands,
\nConspiring with a human man:
\nTime is running out, and it's a midnight crisis.<\/p>\n

"Kill him!" said father, rage unveilled.
\nI made one more attempt, but failed.
\nI could not end this life, though I might die of trying.
\n"Oh, father, you must understand:
\nThough I already miss our lands,
\nI cannot bear to think of this one mortal dying."<\/p>\n

My father drew back with disgust.
\n"I fear you must do as you must.
\nYour childish roaming urges brought this on your head."
\nHe left me in the starry field.
\nI sorely cried: How could I yield
\nTo this most cruel fate of which I live in dread?<\/p>\n

Oh, curse those eyes and curse that skin
\nThat took me from my home and kin
\nMy fate in done and sealed in this last midnight crisis.
\nCurse my hands and curse my heart
\nWho worked to tear my soul apart.
\nThe clock is ticking twelve and it's a midnight crisis.<\/p>\n

Oh, curse my foolish destiny,
\nCurse my father who left me,
\nCurse this wretched human and this midnight crisis! <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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