Nightcrawler - Julia Ecklar - for Ye Zun

[maidavids]

Nightcrawler - Julia Ecklar - from the Elfquest album
Ye Zun
"Cat and serpent locked in struggle"

https://youtu.be/81Sqqju1lLU
or
streaming off my site and downloadable
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/guardian/video/Guardian-Nightcrawler-Julia-Ecklar.htm

Playlist on my YouTube channel for all my Guardian music videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYTtL1FB2XCpZhcGErvpLJCL_hZ5u1kFw

Guardian music video page
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/songvids/guardiansong.htm

Comments

[trobadora]

This is excellent, and the song fits so well!

[maidavids]

Nightcrawler - Julia Ecklar - Elfquest Album

Something lingers in the dark, waiting in a pool of shadow.
Something tainted leaves a mark in the place it lies unseen.

Crippled magic, left behind, grows in strength and grows in evil.
And its casters now would find it has grown foul and obscene.

Lightning splits the angry skies. Cat and serpent locked in struggle
Come too near to where it lies, feeding on the lightning's fire.

Now it takes them unawares, molds and twists and shapes and severs,
'Til within dark magic's lair something rises from the pyre.

Something new is born this night, born in hurt and fear and anger,
Creature formed of magic's might, born to hate and rend and kill.

Hunger nothing can appease, for it feeds on pain and dying,
Everything before it flees, lest they be caught by its will.

Something more than mortal hate, spoiled like a thing long left dead,
Feeding on its own dark rot, basking in its dreams unclean.

Something lingers in the dark, waiting in a pool of shadow.
Something tainted leaves its mark in the place it lies unseen.

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The fun part of literary song videos is forcing a song into a different context than the one for which it was written, and then having that seem like a natural fit. Julia's song was originally written, I would think, for Star Trek's Khan.

I've just laid down her Vow of Vengeance, from Elfquest, for Bai Xu Xia. Fingers crossed that it will work.