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Ladyhawke!

from Divine Intervention by Julia Ecklar

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Being asked to pick a favorite track off an album is kind of like being asked to pick your favorite child — you might actually have a favorite, but you feel guilty admitting it. Still, when backed into a corner, I have to admit that “Ladyhawke!” and the accompanying “Overture” (I think of them as a single piece) are among my three favorite cuts on Divine Intervention.

I have very little control over what I choose to write music about. I never know what books or movies will inspire me, and I’m sometimes disappointed that I never come up with a song about something I really love (Why haven’t I written anything for Buffy the Vampire Slayer?).

But I knew walking out of the theater that the movie Ladyhawke had woken up something in me. A few days later, I was just playing through the strong, strumming opening chords I could hear in my head when my roommate leaned through the door of my bedroom and said, “You’re writing a song for Ladyhawke, aren’t you?”

“How did you know?” I asked, startled.

She shrugged. “It just sounded like Ladyhawke.”

I still consider that one of the nicest compliments anyone ever paid one of my songs. I think Michael’s heroic orchestral arrangement and soaring “Overture” make it sound even more like the Ladyhawke which was its inspiration.

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My jesses are fear and my hood my own lies,
My wings pinned to ground by my thieving.
Each evening I swear that tomorrow I’ll fly,
But each dawn breaks not believing.

I’m a mouse among men, with no goals, no dreams,
No reckon of right or of wrong.
But a magical maiden, more real than she seems,
Fills my soul with the glory of song.

Ladyhawke! Ladyhawke! Fly bravely on,
Wings spread at each morning’s light.
Ladyhawke! Ladyhawke! From dusk to dawn,
Teach me the magic of flight.

I feel strange lending help when I don’t even know
Where she’s headed or where she has been.
But my heart answers, “Yes!” before my head says, “No,”
And, too soon, I am drawn in.

But it’s not just her beauty, for beauty I’ve seen
(‘Though she outshines what beauty I know).
It’s the faith she can place in the truth of a dream,
The good she believes I can show.

I know I will always be weighted to ground,
‘Though the path of the birds I admire,
But she makes me believe in the promise I’ve found
Chasing flight’s dream ever higher.

For “unheard of” means only it’s undreamed of yet;
“Impossible” means not yet done.
The magic I’ve seen here I’ll never forget,
The miracles love has begun.

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from Divine Intervention, released August 27, 1986

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