Silk and Steel

Another song about the AI guitar. I still don't know the full story behind this one--there's a big gap there.

(Drop D tuning: DADGBE; mixolydian mode)

	D5	G	D	G	A
	Lady Melody sleeps	dream	ing on the	wall behind the	bar;

	D
Crystal skeins of memory in a	battered old guitar.

	G	D	A	G	D	A
Re	membering how	she	was	made,	electrons joined with	song;

	D	A	D	Dsus2	D
The gentle hands that	held	her then; the	voice so clear	and	strong;

	D5	G	D	Dsus2	G	D	A
The	way he taught her	how	to	sing, to	dream and	love and	feel,

	D	A	D	A	C	G	D
And the warm touch of his	fin	gers	on	her	strings of silk	and	steel

Lady Melody remembers all their nights of song and stars;

Forest walks and midnight talks and noisy crowded bars;

The demon-haunted night they dared to share their dream of space

Where all their restless friends could find a haven and a place;

The song the thunder sang that day when all their dreams turned real

Launcher's hellfire ringing through her strings of silk and steel.

One verse instrumental -- flute or bass flute.

But now the man who loved her has been dead these seven years;

She mourned the only way she could, with songs instead of tears.

Helped to raise the child he left to grow up proud and strong,

And filled the long nights dreaming in the echo of a song,

And waiting for some gentle touch that once more may reveal

The music that lies sleeping in her soul of silk and steel.

remember to tune up!