![Technical Difficulties - Lullaby for a Weary World (slow version) [HQ] @SongsfromtheStars](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p_vGVqKZmnc/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Please Stand By bonus track. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_please_stand_by
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Lyrics:
I wonder how my world can live with all the hate she harbors
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And I'm scared of how long it may last,
And just how soon it all could end,
And I wish the power to stop it all
Could rest within my hands.
I see her people dying for such bold and bloody causes
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And the bodies of the innocent
Are washed up on the lengthening shore
While the rising tide of history
Just ebbs and flows again.
Chorus:
Oh, make me a cradle to rock my weary world,
Make me a gentle voice to soothe her when she weeps,
Make my arms strong enough to hold her when she wakes,
And make me a lullaby so sweet and fine
That I can sing my weary world to sleep.
I wish that I could smooth away her jagged scars of hatred
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And though my hands may bleed and burn,
I'll hold my broken world to me
Until her ugly scars have healed
And peace may reign again.
(Chorus)
And if her fighting will not stop, then I'll hold her that much closer
And sing my lullaby above the noise and pain of war.
And if her bleeding I can't staunch, I'll bleed along beside her,
But I will not let her go, no, I'll never let her go.
And when the stars have all burned out, I'll sing to her in darkness
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And pray a tender God may find me
Huddled in the dark and cold,
And grant the precious world I shelter
One more chance to live.
May God grant my precious world
Another chance to love.
(Chorus)
Please Stand By bonus track. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_please_stand_by
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Lyrics:
I wonder how my world can live with all the hate she harbors
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And I'm scared of how long it may last,
And just how soon it all could end,
And I wish the power to stop it all
Could rest within my hands.
I see her people dying for such bold and bloody causes
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And the bodies of the innocent
Are washed up on the lengthening shore
While the rising tide of history
Just ebbs and flows again.
Chorus:
Oh, make me a cradle to rock my weary world,
Make me a gentle voice to soothe her when she weeps,
Make my arms strong enough to hold her when she wakes,
And make me a lullaby so sweet and fine
That I can sing my weary world to sleep.
I wish that I could smooth away her jagged scars of hatred
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And though my hands may bleed and burn,
I'll hold my broken world to me
Until her ugly scars have healed
And peace may reign again.
(Chorus)
And if her fighting will not stop, then I'll hold her that much closer
And sing my lullaby above the noise and pain of war.
And if her bleeding I can't staunch, I'll bleed along beside her,
But I will not let her go, no, I'll never let her go.
And when the stars have all burned out, I'll sing to her in darkness
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And pray a tender God may find me
Huddled in the dark and cold,
And grant the precious world I shelter
One more chance to live.
May God grant my precious world
Another chance to love.
(Chorus)
![Technical Difficulties - Lullaby for a Weary World (slow version) [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p_vGVqKZmnc/mqdefault.jpg "Technical Difficulties - Lullaby for a Weary World (slow version) [HQ]
Please Stand By bonus track. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: https://archive.org/details/filk_please_stand_by/
Lyrics:
I wonder how my world can live with all the hate she harbors
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And Im scared of how long it may last,
And just how soon it all could end,
And I wish the power to stop it all
Could rest within my hands.
I see her people dying for such bold and bloody causes
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And the bodies of the innocent
Are washed up on the lengthening shore
While the rising tide of history
Just ebbs and flows again.
Chorus:
Oh, make me a cradle to rock my weary world,
Make me a gentle voice to soothe her when she weeps,
Make my arms strong enough to hold her when she wakes,
And make me a lullaby so sweet and fine
That I can sing my weary world to sleep.
I wish that I could smooth away her jagged scars of hatred
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And though my hands may bleed and burn,
Ill hold my broken world to me
Until her ugly scars have healed
And peace may reign again.
(Chorus)
And if her fighting will not stop, then Ill hold her that much closer
And sing my lullaby above the noise and pain of war.
And if her bleeding I cant staunch, Ill bleed along beside her,
But I will not let her go, no, Ill never let her go.
And when the stars have all burned out, Ill sing to her in darkness
(Sleep, my weary world.)
And pray a tender God may find me
Huddled in the dark and cold,
And grant the precious world I shelter
One more chance to live.
May God grant my precious world
Another chance to love.
(Chorus)")
![Bob Kanefsky/Leslie Fish - Filk of the Night-Mare [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pt9SIkqOBGE/mqdefault.jpg "Bob Kanefsky/Leslie Fish - Filk of the Night-Mare [HQ]
Tapeworm I track 7. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
If I see her again,
I shall meet my doom
In the smoke-filled air
Of the chair-ringed room,
When the hour is late
And the seats are bare,
In the form of an upturned
Well-aimed chair.
For where there’s a tune, there are filks to spare,
And one of the filks is mine.
[second verse by Leslie Fish, not Bob Kanefsky]
Have you seen her again
When the night grows old,
When the songs turn ose
And the words grow bold?
When the booze runs free
And mundanes have fled,
When the fumes and smoke
Knock allergics dead,
Where the night hotel clerks all fear to tread
As if the floor were mined.
We will see her again
When the mikes shall cry,
When the lights fall down
As the notes run high.
She will strike a chord
On her old guitar
With its twelve strings bare
To the heaven’s stars.
She will sing all night till they close the bars,
And no one in sight will mind.")
![Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Memorial [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q913o4UqR_Y/mqdefault.jpg "Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Memorial [HQ]
High Wings track 10. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Fly, heroes, and go with our love;
Carry our song to the bright stars above.
Tell of the pride of the whole human race,
In all those who fought for the conquest of space.
She was the one who could teach us to know
The pride and the joy of all those who go.
She taught the children of all of the earth
The wonder of star-flight, its pain and its worth.
Fly, Christy, and go with our love...
His was the hand that would guide the great ship
On her wonderful, marvelous, glorious trip.
His was the power and the pride in her course;
His great love for flight was his dearest resource.
Fly, Michael, and go with our love...
He led the mission, her job and her crew;
Each one of the fire-eagles habits he knew;
His was the hand that could keep them alive;
Given two seconds, they might have survived.
Fly, Francis, and go with our love...
Ellison, Gregory, Judy and Ron
We honor your courage, and now we go on;
Along the bright road that you helped us to build
Til someday our souls greatest dreams are fulfilled.
Fly, heroes, and go with our love...")
![Leslie Fish - Heart Like an Axle [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qhBDa8dVvo0/mqdefault.jpg "Leslie Fish - Heart Like an Axle [HQ]
Firestorm track 17. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: https://archive.org/details/filk_firestorm
Find more of Leslie Fishs music at: https://lesliefish.bandcamp.com/
Lyrics:
Too damn many losses, scars across your hide
Friend and home and family gone by
Do the miles of wasteland really roll the pain behind
Or are you racing for a place to die?
Chorus:
Heart like an axle, bounded by your wheels
Rolling down the endless blacktop road
Stripping gears and losing with every mile that falls,
How long can you keep dragging that load?
Innocence and honesty before your eyes have died
Watch yourself turn crazy by degrees
All your skills wheel down to one last purpose in this world:
To turn against the same old enemies
(Chorus)
Honest hands hold out to you a promised home again
Why do you always turn around and run?
Is it fear to feel again the losing and the pain
Or shame of showing decent men the demon youve become?
Stand on the highway in the wreckage and the dust
Where nothing moves now but the wind and sun
How long the warrior, with no one you can trust?
How long before the race is run?
(Chorus)")
![Frank Hayes - Starship in High Gear [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r4S9liFgVf8/mqdefault.jpg "Frank Hayes - Starship in High Gear [HQ]
Dont Ask track 15. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
I am the dance on the edge of what never has been
I am remembered tomorrows that never were seen
I am the future borne up in the sound of the thunder
Loud-rushing leap to the sky as it spins
Silver cigar wearing Cadillac fins
Where the past stops and the future begins to wonder
Starship in high gear
Flashing lights and shrieking skies
Rockets zip and whiz
Aint no “was” no more
Aint no “will be,” not just yet,
All there is is “is”...
I am the zero-gee toilet, backed up to the ceiling
I am the face of a zero-gee hungover feeling
Im short of sleep cause my body wont stay in one place
Air vents that clink and computers that rattle
Water and food that smell awfully like cattle
Whatever happened to Klingons and battles in space?
Starship in high gear
Clanking pipes and weary eyes
Is that supposed to fizz?
Aint no “was” no more
Aint no “will be,” not just yet,
All there is is “is”...")
![Bob Kanefsky/Leslie Fish - Mundanes Waltz [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rEZcAdYvmYI/mqdefault.jpg "Bob Kanefsky/Leslie Fish - Mundanes Waltz [HQ]
Tapeworm I track 6. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Come along Harry and Mary and Joe,
Check out your suits and get ready to go.
Fill up those trucks with today’s load of sands
To be shipped back to Earth when the space shuttle lands.
Chorus:
Twelve million, half billion, billion, and more,
Watching T.V. on the living room floor.
Barely aware that the day is at hand
When we dig our first mines in the rich lunar sand.
It’s those people we left back on Earth that get me.
While we’re living the dream, they sit watching TV.
Their metal supply now comes mostly from here,
And they put half of that into cans for their beer.
(Chorus)
Television ignores us; it seems there’s no place
For cov’rage of homesteads we’re building in space.
The reason for this lack of interest is clear:
The ones who would watch are all working up here.
(Chorus)
We’re geologists here, astrophysicists too,
And plain old hard workers like those in our crew,
With one thing in common: we yearn for the stars,
And we will not stop building until theyre all ours.
(Chorus)
Someday we’ll be living in pressurized domes
As warm and secure as Earth’s safe little homes.
But Earth folk won’t visit, because of their fear
That the T.V. reception is lousy up here.
(Chorus)
So come, let’s start building our homestead today,
Where a world of foot-draggers can’t stand in our way.
And when no dependence on Earth goods remains,
We can all say goodbye to those Earthbound mundanes.
(Chorus)")
![Julia Ecklar - Golden Eyes [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rWybzpLXSms/mqdefault.jpg "Julia Ecklar - Golden Eyes [HQ]
Horse-Tamers Daughter track 12. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Find more of Julia Ecklars excellent music at: https://www.prometheus-music.com/
Lyrics:
A shadow in the bright bazaar; a glimpse of eyes where none should shine;
A glimpse of eyes translucent gold, and slitted against the sun.
This the clue and this the sign that sets him on his quarrys line,
But she has seen him in a dream, and now shes on the run.
Faster than a thought she flees, and seeks the jungles sheltering trees,
But he is steady on the track, and half a breath behind.
She tastes his scent upon the breeze, and, looking past her shoulder, sees
He treads upon her shadow. She fears the hunters mind.
So now she summons all her wit, and every trick she knows to hide,
To make him lose the twisting track, to throw him off her trail.
In woman form, in leopard hide, fording, leaping side to side,
She doubles back along her track—and sees her efforts fail.
He stands before her, dark and grim. Her terror now she cant suppress.
He blocks the only pathway out, and will not let her by.
Her gold flanks heaving in distress, half woman and half leopardess—
To either side, nowhere to hide; its time to fight or die.
But what is this? To her amaze, the man has thrown his gun away,
And quietly, he draws near her now, a smile upon his face.
Before she thinks to run or stay, his body blurs like softened clay...
Before her eyes, to her surprise—a leopard in his place.
The hunter they have sought in vain, and now the talk of the bazaar
Is of the canny leopard pair, a sight none will forget
Who once has seen them near or far, in sunlight or where shadows are,
As side by side they hunt and hide. No one has caught them yet!")
![Julia Ecklar - Fellowship Going South [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rXLULAmjfyY/mqdefault.jpg "Julia Ecklar - Fellowship Going South [HQ]
Horse-Tamers Daughter track 08. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
What is courage now?
Is it just to go until were done?
Men may call us heroes when they can say weve won—
But if we should fail, how then?
What is courage now?
Mountains to our side,
Standing like a wall against the sky,
Show no path to let us through, yet still we search and try.
Silver snow and stone, cold blue,
Mountains to our side.
River from the pines,
We can hear your echo far away.
To your banks our steps must lead. Help us on our way,
We who know you lend your speed,
River from the pines.
Star above the world,
Seeing down the ways that we must go.
Throw down light to guide a friend, or how else can we know
If theres hope where pathways end?
Star above the world.
What is courage now?
In the hope we know that holds us fast.
Bear us to that final door and win us free at last,
Or we touch this world no more.
What is courage now?")
![UnReal Estate 01 - UnReal Estate [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s4iC7ZL9XkQ/mqdefault.jpg "UnReal Estate 01 - UnReal Estate [HQ]
Sung by Cecilia Eng. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Well, everyone knows space is where good moneys to be made
The frontier of the future, where all of Earthll trade
But you gotta get your money in to make sure you get paid
So I got me a real good deal on an asteroid
Chorus:
And they said, “Step right up here, dont be shy!
Come get yourself a piece of the pie
Bring your cash and lets make a deal
Well sell you estates that are quite unreal.”
Well it aint got runnin water, in fact the atmosphere is froze
And its kind of off the beaten path where no spaceship ever goes
But the salesman said its real estate like this thats bound to grow
And I got me a real good deal on an asteroid
(Chorus)
They said theyd guarantee Ill have a lot of silicon
And they swear thats the mineral that everyone should own
Just think about the market in computer chips alone!
And they gave me a real good deal on an asteroid
(Chorus)
Well, I had to decide real quick because they couldnt hold the deal
They said, “P. T. Barnum says theres lots of folks to whom this would appeal!”
So if I didnt buy right then, Id miss out on a steal
So I got me a real good deal on an asteroid
(Chorus)")
![Kathy Mar - Joy [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sC6PHcKbW3Q/mqdefault.jpg "Kathy Mar - Joy [HQ]
Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: https://archive.org/details/filk_songbird
Lyrics:
Chorus: Joy is in the ears that hear, let its song succeed
Laughter is the bane of fear and all the hope we need
Let all who are most serious and fearful on this day
Take lessons from our Giant friends, or children at their play
For ever in the midst of woe, it helps if we recall
That laughter is a medicine more potent than them all
(Chorus)
When all our banners dragged the dust and all our hands were chained,
In haunted caverns of the earth our laughter yet remained
And ever as we lost our dreams, the joy would bid them nigh
Until at last we left the dark and laughed beneath the sky
(Chorus)
Though ever in this darkling world our enemies grow strong,
It helps us to remember that their reign cannot be long
For though it seems forever as we hold them still at bay,
It helps to know that laughter is forever and a day
(Chorus x2)")
![Bill Sutton - “Star Song” [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sW3zlcyOddE/mqdefault.jpg "Bill Sutton - “Star Song” [HQ]
Past Due track 15. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
“The milk run, quick and cheap,” he said, as he shipped from Station 3
“A chance to be alone,” he said, “just my guitar and me.”
So he loaded up the cargo and he drifted from the bay
Navigation entered in, Star Song is on her way
Two days at the halfway point, shes running on her own
Hes sitting in his cabin, writing songs of home
Well, she lurches twice, her jets fire, he crashes to the deck
He wakes to find the navicomp is a twisted, useless wreck
Chorus:
You see, there aint no hand to guide you when the memory banks are blown
There aint no sign to point you to the star you call your own
Oh, no, there aint no bloody road map for the road that leads you home
Theres only God to help you when youre lost in space alone
Well, a dust speck, like a bullet bite, had carved away her brain
Adrift with only life support, she wont find home again
Well, her course has changed, shes drifting wide, he cant tell where hes bound
He stares out at the endless stars, at space, without a sound
Well, he turns on the mayday beam and he picks up his guitar
He sings a song of loneliness, of a man without a star
Well, he sings of how hes feeling when theres no one else around
With little chance of getting home, with power running down
(Chorus)
Well, the liner Carillon is running three days out from Sol
When comm reports a frequency is sounding mayday call
So she turns to track the trouble, finding a mindless ship and song
She grapples with the freighter and she takes the pilot on
Well, its another day and Carillon has made her planetfall
Star Song has had her comp replaced and shes ready for another haul
Well, he shudders once as he climbs in, just he and his guitar
But he just shrugs and enters in a course for another star...
(Chorus)")
