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For the unrelated short story, see "After Midnight (short story)"

"After Midnight" is a very introspective song written by Herald Kris for his intern, Herald Talia, in the winter of her first Circuit. Partnered with Herald Kris, and trapped by a terrible blizzard in the middle of the Forest of Sorrows, Talia had to relearn how to control her magical powers, and rebuild self-esteem that had taken a terrible beating at Court. The song expresses the surprise that Herald Kris feels when he realizes the powerful bond between student and teacher reaches both ways.[1]

Audio[]

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Lyrics []

In the dead dark hours after midnight
When the world seems to stop in its place 
You can see a little more clearly 
You can look your life in the face 

You can see the things that you have to 
Speak the words to true for the day 
In the dead dark hours after midnight 
Little friend will you listen and stay 

In the time when I never knew you 
I could view the world as my own 
I was God's own gift to his creatures 
And I wore an armor of stone 

I was wise and faithful and noble 
I was pompous, pious and cold 
I was cruel when I never meant it 
Too cold to touch or to hold 

[Interlude]

It was you who broke through my armor 
It was you who breached through the walls 
With your pain and your desperation 
How could I not answer your call 

How could I have guessed you would touch me 
And in ways I couldn't control 
How could I have known I would need you 
Or have guessed you have seen to my soul 

For as I taught you so you taught me 
How to love and why to care 
For your love had thawed my winter 
Taught me how to feel and dare 

When I looked tonight I discovered 
I could not again stand apart 
In the dead dark hours after midnight 
I learned that I owed you my heart

References[]

  1. Description from The Arrows of the Queen Concordance complied by Juanita Coulson
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