This song was based on original lyrics, written by me in April 2011: https://www.otherkin.net/posts/whats-changed/
This version was performed acapella by me, to the melody that I originally imagined when writing it. Yes, that's my actual voice, and sorry for the background noise of the air conditioner and the mechanical keyboard.
I don't love this version, I prefer the previously posted version set to music and performed by an AI, Suno. However, I will admit that part of my reaction there is feeling something along the lines of dysphoria when I hear my own voice recorded. I have a fairly decent singing voice, but I much prefer to share it in live in-person contexts. Bardic circle around a campfire, for example. Maybe sometime I'll see you there.
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Midnight Dance
This song was based on original lyrics, written by me in April 2011: https://www.otherkin.net/posts/whats-changed/
However, it was set to music and performed by an AI, Suno. This allowed me to share it in a format that I simply wouldn't have been able to otherwise, and personally I think this is the best version of the song, and came out remarkably consistent with my original vision for it. However, I will also be posting an acapella version in my own voice, with the melody as I had originally imagined it when writing the song. You can find that here: https://www.otherkin.net/posts/whats-changed-acapella-version-de497393/
Who shall loose Orion's bands?
"I!" saith Eternity.
"I with annulling hands
Shall set the Titan free."
Who shall erect upon the sky
New forms of might?
Saith Eternity: "I!
I shall re-people night.
"As a breath on glass,
As witch-fires that burn,
The gods and monsters pass,
Are dust, and return.
"Is the toil much to you
That is little to me?
Such dreams the gods knew,"
Saith Eternity.
The fairies have never a penny to spend,
They haven't a thing put by,
But theirs is the dower of bird and flower
And theirs is the earth and sky.
And though you should live in a palace of gold
Or sleep in a dried up ditch,
You could never be as poor as the fairies are,
And never be as rich.
Since ever and ever the world began
They danced like a ribbon of flame,
They have sung their song through the centuries long,
And yet it is never the same.
And though you be foolish or though you be wise,
With hair of silver or gold,
You can never be as young as the fairies are,
And never be as old.
It has been quite some time since I last engaged in writing of this sort. I find myself out of practice, and unsure of what I want to say.
My name is Alaereth Seriasin. I am currently incarnated on a world known to my people as Yyl'Nector.
As Earth reckons time, it has been over a decade since I was last able to make consistent, reliable contact with my host, Jarin. From my own subjective experience, it has been closer to a year, perhaps a year and a half.
Originally posted to the WanderingPaths mailing list on April 8, 2011. This was written as a poetic focus used as part of a Calling to the spirit the otherkin community once had.
By oak and ash and rowan tree The ancient magic calls to thee Who are kith and kin to we By blood and spirit called to me.
Testing out the signal boost functionality (our equivalent of reblog.)