Heralds, Harpers, and Havoc: Fundamentals Mercedes Lackey
Channel: ARP7777777
Date: 2009-11-21

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!