Songs Happen. Again.

[catsittingstill]

I'm not quite sure what the universe was up to, but Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire and Fair Game by Patricia Briggs came out on the same day. Which was good in terms of my being able to pick up one of each on one trip to Knoxville, but a little tougher in that I had to read one second, and that one turned out to be Fair Game.

I love Briggs' writing in general, and I love this world (the same one in the Mercy Thompson (coyote-shifter mechanic) books.) And while I mostly started this series because it had Briggs' name on the cover so who wouldn't, it grew on me in its own right, and now I am half in love with most of the characters and want to smack the rest, with, actually, some overlap.

I finished it yesterday and liked it so much I thought about it until a song came out.

Fair Game
lyrics and melody by Catherine Faber 2012
mp3 here
a capella mp3 here

Am         Dm               Am       G
Some folk think, where the court convenes         
      C          Dm        Am         G   
That blacks, or women, or gays, or sprites        
     Am        Dm               Am         E    
May think and speak, but their difference means
         Am        C          C       F
They are not real people and have no rights.

              C       Dm        C     G              
   There are monsters under the open sky               
           C        Dm              C          G
   Who destroy the difference they can't make tame     
              Am        Dm             Am          E
   There are those who think that the wolves must die...
          Am           Dm       C    G   Am
   Well, hunting the hunter is but Fair Game.

So strong is hate, where they hate the elves,
They believe it justifies all they do
There are even those made to hate themselves
For the heart thus twisted can not speak true.

We cannot change to your sole caprice
To set your human fears at rest;
If we can't get justice or even peace
We may shrug and settle for second best.

Age and power when yoked to love
May bring results of a drastic sort
And those who grudge the end thereof
May plead their case in another court.
           
   There are monsters under the open sky               
   Who destroy the difference they can't make tame     
   There are those who think that the wolves must die...
   Well, hunting the hunter is but Fair Game.
          Am           Dm       C    G   Am
   Well, hunting the hunter is but Fair Game!