Crystal Singer
Words and Music copyright 1982 Annd Harlan Prather
About This Album
This album was released in 1982 by Off-Centaur Publications, and was intended to be my introduction to the recorded filk world. To facilitate my entrance into this scene, OCP made the album a collaboration between Leslie Fish, Julia Ecklar and me.
The editors at OCP originally thought the title "Space Heroes and Other Fools" was too long, but they soon discovered that people remembered it. And so the album was named.
With its swashbuckling themes, its tales of bravery and pain and its--yes--ose flavor, the album is a filk classic. I hope to bring it back someday.
I'm a woman of Fuerte
I'm Killashandra Ree
And music's been my mistress
And music's broken me
It's almost unendurable
To have made it so far
Only to be told
You can sing your song no more
I'm a woman of Fuerte
I'm Killashandra Ree
And I have gone to sing my song
Where I can be free.
And I will leave the opera stage
Without a single word
In a glorious silent exit
My protests gone unheard.
And when I have departed
No one else will see.
My shame or my distress
No they'll not pity me.
I'm a woman of Fuerte
I'm Killashandra Ree
And I'm a crystal singer
No they'll not laugh at me.
Sing softly sweet crystal
And help me to forget
My enemies and tormentors
The terrors I have met.
Sing me crystal mountain
A symphony of hue
And I'll sing you a love song,
Endless, ever new.
And when I've lived a hundred years
Two hundred, maybe three
There'll be no specter from my past
To see, or laugh at me.
And I'll have lived my life
The way I want it to be.
Yes I'm a crystal singer
And I'm forever free.