PUBLISHED: Nov 21, 2009
DESCRIPTION:
A Song from the CD Heralds, Harpers, and Havoc, by Mercedes Lackey. About Talia getting her psionic Gifts under control with the help of Kris . I don't know who sung it, though.
Lyrics:
FUNDAMENTALS
Lyrics: Mercedes Lackey Music: Kristoph Klover
(Kris: Arrow's Flight)
Ground and center; we begin
Feel the shape inside your skin
Feel the earth and feel the air—
Ground and center; "how" and "where."
Ground and center—don't just frown,
Find the leaks and lock them down.
Baby-games you never learned
Bring you pain you never earned.
Ground and center; do it, child
If you'd tame that Talent wild—
Girl, you learned it in your youth—
Life's not fair, and that's the truth.
Ground and center, once again;
You're not finished—I'll say when.
Ground and center in your sleep
Ground and center 'till you weep.
Ground and center; that's the way—
You might get somewhere, someday.
Yes, I know I'm being cruel
And you're as stubborn as a mule!
Ground and center, feel the flow
Can you tell which way to go?
Instinct's not enough, my friend—
Make it reflex in the end.
Ground and center; hold it tight—
Dammit, greenie, that's not right!
(Every tear you shed hurts me,
But that's the way it has to be.)
Ground and center; good, at last!
Once again; grab hard, hold fast.
Half asleep or half awake—
Both of us know what's at stake.
Ground and center; now it's sure;
What you have now will endure,
Forgive me what I had to do—
Healing hurts—you know that's true.
Ground and center; lover, friend—
You won't break, but now you bend.
Costly lesson, high the price—
But you won't have to learn it twice!