"High Queen" (with apologies to Judas Priest) · 11:56pm Oct 25th, 2014
To the tune of "Tyrant," by Judas Priest:
1st Stanza: Nightmare Hunger, aka Chrysalis
Behold ‘tis I, the High Queen,
Who rules you with my call.
Resist me not, surrender,
I’ve no Kindness at all.
Chorus: All
High Queen, captor of equinity
High Queen, conqueror of all
High Queen, hideous destuctor
High Queen, everyling shall fall
2nd Stanza: Hunger
Your very lives held within my power
I lash out and you cower down in fear
You spineless things who belly down to slither
To the end of all, you follow to be near
(repeat Chorus)
3rd Stanza: Her Subjects
Mourn for us, oppressed in fear,
By pheromones, we are bound.
Freedom choked, in dread we live
Since High Queen was enthroned,
4th Stanza: Hunger
I listen not to sympathy,
Whilst High Queen in my lair.
Withdraw your feeble ancient rules,
Lest I smite you with my Stare.
(repeat Chorus)
(repeat 3rd Stanza)
5th Stanza: Hunger
My Changelings, faithful unto death
I’ll summon to my Court
And as you perish, each of you
Shall feed my hunger more.
(repeat Chorus)
(pan out on the upperworks of Hive Hunger-Prime, surface fountaining with the impact of heavy artillery shells, jets diving and strafing and rocketing the few remaining Changeling gun positions, earth heaving with the fall of tallboy penetrators from high-altitude heavy bombers, the works burning and the deep gound erupting with the occasional string of secondary explosions. Pan down -- way down -- a mile below the surface of the doomed Hive, where there is a Royal Bunker.
(And Hunger).
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Yeah. The next chapter is entitled "In the Royal Bunker," and dear little Compound and her pals have dug their way out of the frying pan ...
... right into the fire.
Fitting.
So is Luna's theme Dreamer Deceiver?